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- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
straightforward, but if you have been as successful as he has, I can imagine it is very easy to get stuck in your ways. Q: Like many managers, Ferguson must manage for the short term (in-game and game to game), intermediate term (for a... View Details
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
spend more time. “The more time they expect to spend at a landmark, the more they concentrate other Whites around that landmark,” the study says. In a similar fictional-city study, White survey participants were asked to imagine living in... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
morning after he finishes his prayers is to ask himself, "How can I help to make the world better today?" Imagine if our senior political and business leaders started their day by asking that question and acting on the answer.... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
in the first place. Am I imagining that this is a growing problem, or have I just been picking up the wrong books lately? Has it always been like this? Are we forgetting how to listen? If so, what are the reasons? What do you think? To... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
industry? How will better data collection transform the ways in which we do clinical trials for new cancer drugs? It is both staggering and exciting to imagine how data and analytic capabilities will transform entire industries and it was... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
how do you think about this? A: It's worth putting yourself in the shoes of Ben Bernanke and trying to imagine how he thinks about it. That's going to be helpful in assessing what he might do. As a central banker, Mr. Bernanke has to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
in that job control to accomplish a task? This list of resources may include people, budgets, and balance sheets. “Just imagine you are looking to take a job somewhere and they want you to drive $100 million in revenue,” Simons explains.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
"get" phase 4, perhaps because it calls for a more intuitive and imaginative way of addressing a problem, but those who are less intuitive have to work harder. For phase 5, some people are more psychologically minded than others... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
experiential selfies on Instagram and Snapchat. THE VERDICT: While none of the fashionista judges could imagine themselves renting a wardrobe from Hilton, they all admired the idea of creating an immersive, personalized, almost fantastic... View Details
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
to imagine that we could inspire high performance with no employee engagement." Conant decided to grow the soup business, and he championed the idea of "winning" on two fronts--in the workplace and in the marketplace. To... View Details
- 24 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things
the idea of completing a set, even if it means working harder or spending more money—with no additional reward other than the satisfaction of completion and the relief of avoiding an incomplete set. Imagine arriving at your boss’s summer... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
cases starting, it was hard for us to imagine exactly just how quickly cases would blow up,” Peterson says. “It's not a straight line. It's a geometrically increasing curve. But instead we expect—we want to expect—things to be linear.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
this is the positive of globalization—the ability to try and transcend the difficulties of your domestic context in order to improve your competitiveness," Ghemawat said, "then one of the downsides, or at least one of the managerial challenges, is that it's... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
First, HBS alumnae Kim Scott's book Just Work offers practical ways to serve as an upstander and deal with injustice at work. Second, my dear friend Laurie David and her co-author Heather Reisman's book Imagine It! not only unpacks how... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
Imagine a future in which a smart marketing machine can predict the needs and habits of individual consumers and the dynamics of competitors across industries and markets. This device would collect data to answer strategic questions,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
to launch the first private mission to land on the moon, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The mission will use a lander to study the moon’s magnetic field. “One could imagine a trip like this becoming not exactly a rite of passage, but a... View Details
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
by contributing on smaller firms and startups. “One could imagine that the effects might be potentially bigger for smaller companies,” he says, “especially in the tech sector or for other companies that rely on tech in their DNA.” Nagle... View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- What Do You Think?
Making Right Choices: Art or Science?
this way: Decisions on personal matters carry a greater weight of art; those that relate to work have more of science. Frances Pratt commented, "It is often the art that allows us to imagine that we are indeed making a controlled,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
economies will remain with us for the foreseeable future. That spells opportunity for those companies that have the imagination to see the full range of possibilities. View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details