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- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
enlightening guide, they show how Gates, Grove, and Jobs approached strategy and execution in remarkably similar ways-yet markedly differently from their erstwhile competitors-keeping their focus on five strategic rules. Strategy Rules... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
management of public schools, demonstrates the challenges and opportunities related to private sector involvement in the delivery of a public good. Follows the organization from its start-up through its initial public offering and, eventually, through its decision to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
executives at a major multinational corporation, and with participants in an open-enrollment program at a major business school. Student course feedback and a follow-up survey administered about one year after the course suggest that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
it so often does today. What's more, company executives should make fewer, shorter, and more targeted presentations to board members and spend more time engaging them in interactive discussions. For the board to monitor strategy, it first... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
compiled a detailed curriculum analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
Paine: The book had its origins in the preparations for celebrating the Centennial of HBS in 2008. The School was founded because important Harvard alumni discussed with President Eliot their observation that a new class of executives who... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
the International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC), will be welcomed by the corporate community, since such a framework will give useful guidance to a management practice that is already happening. Integrated reporting represents a... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
wants to adjust the company's business, headcount, and cost levels to adapt to changing economic conditions after one of the worst economic downturns in decades. His all-male executive committee has raised... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
differently. Over time, he had established a group of trusted executives around him, which formed a "steering committee." And they all had their own points of view, which they regularly voiced. The tension of the big-growth... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
management roles of management, audit committee and the external auditor. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/113002-PDF-ENG How Much? (A) Clayton RoseHarvard Business School Case 313-004 The leader of a small business team must deal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
growth requires. This article explores six common mistakes that executives make in this arena: 1) Failing to provide the right kind of oversight. The CEO should spend meaningful time with the team and with potential customers; 2) Not... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
suggests that horizontally homogeneous teams organized tasks in a more efficient way, while vertically homogeneous teams exerted lower effort. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49643 Executive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
company’s CFO, began to develop an entirely new retail model for Turkey—FILE, a discount supermarket. FILE would carry many more SKUs in larger stores and compete head-to-head with national and local supermarkets. Throughout the year, in their various View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
Zhang compared the effectiveness of ads prepared by the candidate's own campaign with ads supporting the candidate prepared by outside political groups, including political action committees (PACs). “"I need to see a good ad about Obama... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
reject it, too. “It turns out that shareholders have many different views, and it’s not only the largest shareholders whose proposals have widespread appeal” The House Financial Services Committee explained it this way in its April 2017... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
higher utility (or satisfaction), higher execution effort (or motivation), faster coordination, less influence activities, and more communication, but also to less experimentation and less information collection. When two firms that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Lehman Brothers Harvard Business School Case 409-042 Explores how two senior Wall St. executives created a successful commercial opportunity for Lehman Brothers that focused on building relationships with minority- and women-owned... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
former Warner shareholders. As a result, Time directors had no duty to maximize shareholder value and were permitted to rebuff the arguably higher Paramount cash offer for Time that a majority of the Time shareholders favored over the Warner deal. View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Case 319-046 The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A) In February 2018, the Remuneration Committee together with the full Board of Directors of the Scotland-based engineering company The Weir Group had to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman