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  • 18 Aug 2022
  • Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

In order to move an organization forward, leaders must reflect on past activities in order to avoid making the same mistakes. One way to codify this reflection is by developing an after-action review process, a structured debriefing that the United States View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
  • 02 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

Gallipoli, which resulted in over 100,000 Allied casualties during World War I. "The campaign was a total fiasco for British military leadership," he notes. "When it was over, Churchill took complete responsibility. A... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

imperialists? A: Americans never like to use that word in describing our actions! I certainly don't. But it fits our behavior in Panama. The "successful" part happened under Teddy Roosevelt: the United States used military force... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
  • 09 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

ensure the organization’s preparedness for future crises. Information gathering The flow of high-quality information is more important than ever. A United States military framework for thinking about the external environment that has... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • 16 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Are You a Strategist?

Montgomery equally stresses the importance of recognizing how a strategist lives and leads. To that end, in the book she cites not only economic gurus, such as Joseph Schumpeter, but also philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, military theorist... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

performance Norton says. He cites a recent incident in which several retired high-ranking US military leaders publicly supported a Supreme Court decision in favor of affirmative action in university admissions. "Their point was that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

was about running a business. It was all about supply chains and helping the military figure out the best way to get stuff to Europe. Of course, identity and structure both had to change. And then the war was over, and we went back to the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Aug 2006
  • HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

States Military Academy at West Point. Using case studies (see links below), Snook's students are introduced to the coaches at pivotal moments: Knight has just been fired from Indiana and is unrepentant about his behavior. Krzyzewski is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports
  • May 2018 (Revised October 2018)
  • Case

Argentina Power—Don't Cry for Me Argentina

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
In 2016, Bruce Wayne, Managing Director of Energy Finance Corporation (“EFC”), was refining the Investment/Credit Committee materials for the development of up to 10 power generating plants in Argentina. As a subsidiary of the much larger International Conglomerate... View Details
Keywords: Cross Border; Energy Markets; Infrastructure Finance; Infrastructure Development; Business Subsidiaries; Business Cycles; Macroeconomics; Energy Generation; International Finance; Project Finance; Government and Politics; Demand and Consumers; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; Latin America
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  • 09 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

de-escalation. My personal assessment is that it is likely to get worse, and maybe much worse, in the coming days, weeks, and months. Forman: What would trigger that? Abdelal: The extraordinary intensity of the sanctions regime as a punishment for what Russian View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy
  • 2025
  • Chapter

Leapfrog Leaders: Accelerating Systems Leadership Skills

By: Laura Cabrera, Derek Cabrera and Hise O. Gibson
We need leaders who can execute at the Strategic, Operational, and Tactical (SOT) levels. But, research shows it takes time for skills to develop at all three levels—too much time. Why does it take too much time? First, because expertise is borne of experience. An... View Details
Keywords: DSRP; VCML; Strategy; Operations; Leadership Development; Decision Making; Organizational Structure
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  • 28 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

point to both countries flexing their military muscle increasingly: China's blue water navy, India's nuclearization. But I think to focus exclusively on this, even primarily, is a complete mistake. The on-the-ground productive ferment,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

the two countries have managed to alienate each other. It includes everything from blame about COVID-19 to suppression of minorities in China to the US policy toward Taiwan and “One China” to military action in waters adjacent to China to... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 29 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

gender is underrepresented, Healy says. “You can bring that power to the negotiating table in at least trying to make sure you're treated fairly,” he says. Healy partnered with Boris Groysberg, the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at HBS, and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 11 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

a company? A: The OSM is analogous to a military general's chief of staff. The general is responsible and accountable for developing the strategy to win wars and battles. But a general almost always has a chief-of-staff, often several... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

the salesman's role in promoting goods was different from that of advertising. To use a military analogy common in the early twentieth century, advertising was a weapon for waging an air war, while salesmen were deployed as foot soldiers... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

shared other characteristics. Chief among them were willingness to make investments in international diplomacy—in terms of both their number of consulates and embassies and the amount of money they allocated in diplomatic efforts. While View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 25 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

certain strategic assets that are important for building critical military equipment. One can be too cautious about reliance on foreigners. In the early 19th century, the British thought their grain supply was strategic, and they... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Renovating Democratic Capitalism

By: Malcolm S. Salter

This in-process work focuses on how best to address the declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider to be a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer to this question is not entirely clear, I... View Details

  • 27 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

companies to compete. The reality is much different in developing economies, where the rule of law might be poorly enforced, social anarchy flourishes, or the military runs the government. So, it is quite remarkable when entrepreneurs in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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