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- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
let go In today’s world, vision and strategy are still essential, but the ability to orchestrate collective action—co-creation instead of top-down direction—has never been more important. To this end, leading in the digital era is an... View Details
- October 2019
- Case
Agility Africa
By: Juan Alcacer, Caroline M. Elkins and Esel Çekin
This case illustrates the challenge and opportunities that firms face when developing and executing new business models in high-risk, low-infrastructure, low-trust countries. It features a global logistics group, Agility, that aimed to become the leader in supplying... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Expansion; Emerging Markets; Decision Choices and Conditions; Real Estate Industry; Distribution Industry; Africa
Alcacer, Juan, Caroline M. Elkins, and Esel Çekin. "Agility Africa." Harvard Business School Case 720-357, October 2019.
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
noncognitive, interpersonal skills during adolescence. Long-run administrative data shows that negotiation training significantly improved educational outcomes over the next three years. The training had greater effects than two alternative treatments (offering girls a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
market, we induce a theoretical framework to explain how firms win the race to find a viable business model. As the new market emerged, high-performing firms enacted three strategies in sequence that helped them achieve their objective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2018 (Revised March 2018)
- Teaching Note
OpenInvest
By: Boris Vallee and Caitlin Reimers Brumme
Founded by a team of hedge fund and NGO alumni, OpenInvest launched its platform in 2015 to enable retail investors to tailor their portfolio to their personal values in an automated way, for instance by screening out weapon manufacturers stocks or overweighting LGBTQ... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
2019 HarperBusiness The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power By: Cusumano, Michael A., Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie Abstract—The Business of Platforms explores the strategic,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- May 2018
- Case
Inditex: 2018
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2018, Inditex, based in Spain, was the largest specialist fashion retailer in the world, generating sales of $31.5 billion in 2017 from a portfolio of eight retail brands selling through a total of 7,475 stores located in 96 countries and from websites in 49... View Details
Keywords: Fashion; Succession; IPO; Competition; Initial Public Offering; Multinational Firms and Management; Management Succession; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Inditex: 2018." Harvard Business School Case 718-515, May 2018.
- 20 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think
candidates. Such actions are not without consequences. The Challenger space shuttle explosion, steroid use in major league baseball, and the financial crash are all results of unethical decision-making, even though the participants at the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving
overnight. What is a cloud kitchen? Cloud kitchens are commercial facilities purpose-built to produce food specifically for delivery. They do not have brick-and-mortar dine-in areas and consist of shared kitchen space with culinary staff... View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
companies devised political strategies that maneuvered a reluctant President Roosevelt into supporting their interests, and the Mexican government more than fully compensated them as a result. Neither wages for oil workers nor Mexican... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
typically adopt the strategy of remaining silent about race and inequality to avoid being labeled “agitators.” In a 2017 study by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and colleagues, 78 percent of black professionals said they have experienced... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings
administration in the HBS Strategy Unit. “It’s very taxing, to be honest.” Shifting to remote work at the start of the pandemic stripped away whatever was left of the elusive 9-to-5 business day and replaced it with videoconferencing and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- Research Summary
Research Summary
By: Leslie A. Perlow
There has been tremendous change in the workplace — ubiquitous technology, 24/7 globalization, hyper-efficiency and now significant changes in work location. Professor Perlow’s research explores the implications for the ways we work and live, and what we can do to... View Details
- 02 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'
back of the treadmill. Third is the people who are able to get off that treadmill. My book is for people who are in groups one and two, trying to get them into group three. Morrell: Okay, help us get off the treadmill. What are the View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
simultaneously manage the seemingly contradictory dualities of the job: integrating direct decision-making with indirect levers like strategy and culture, balancing internal and external constituencies, proactively pursuing an agenda... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
precious shelf space inside its brick and mortar stores. “Target realized the importance of devoting the time, attention, skill, and strategy to developing data and analytics competencies in a critical part... View Details
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2018
- Book
How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
(Robbins, 2007). Michael Duncan, a deputy chief medical of cer with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), reported that the Chilean of cials said, “Let’s try to identify who the experts are in the eld let’s get... View Details
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
Business Administration in the Strategy unit and Senior Associate Dean for Research. Balancing design and identity Whereas organizational design is concerned with how tasks are prioritized, structured, and coordinated across individuals... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2011
- What Do You Think?
So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?
they were, we would value and honor "flip-floppers." The acceptable answer to the question, "Who's in charge around here?" is rarely someone other than the CEO, and it influences a CEO's tendency to talk when he should be listening. To say that the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett