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  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

In an email interview, Harvard Business School professor James Austin spoke with HBS Working Knowledge managing editor Carla Tishler about his work on collaboration and his ongoing research.Tishler: You talk about companies transitioning... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 17 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

million emails and 80 million meeting invitations. Shortly after a new CEO takes over, uncertainty among employees dampens communication within a company. However, after about five months, internal chatter sharply intensifies as managers start rolling out the leader’s... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
  • 31 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

Most managers today understand the strategic implications of the information-based, knowledge-driven, service-intensive economy. They know what the new game requires: speed, flexibility and continuous self-renewal. They even are... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 22 Apr 2020
  • Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

includes technological innovations and changes in consumer sentiment, both of which affect the value of assets and liabilities. Physical and transition risks will likely introduce new strategic risks as new... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • December 2007
  • Background Note

Tools and Tactics for Transformation: Three "Whats" and Three "Hows"

By: James K. Sebenius and Stephen Friedman
Important transformation at Goldman Sachs, where one of the authors was Chairman, required analysis, political leadership, and management in order to fundamentally shift the strategy, people, and culture on a sustainable basis. After describing the actions needed to... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Tactics; Business Strategy; Organizational Culture; Transition; Strategic Planning; Core Relationships; Multinational Firms and Management; Leadership Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Equity
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  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

efficiency, because some schools are strategic players that rank students in order of preference, while others order students based on large priority classes. Therefore it is desirable for a mechanism to produce stable matchings (to avoid... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 11

private equity firm, address strategic and organizational challenges in response to turbulent market conditions, rapid firm growth, and the transition of leadership from its founding partners to the next... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

Abraham Neyman Abstract—Building on the work of Nash, Harsanyi, and Shapley, we define a cooperative solution for strategic games that takes account of both the competitive and the cooperative aspects of such games. We prove existence in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

developing proven molecules from strategic partners to leapfrog competition and create large molecule biologics in India. The company understood that its transition from an API to an innovation-led company... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

client portfolio. The case enables a discussion of different types of clients in a global professional service firm in terms of relative revenues, profitability, and strategic significance. It also highlights the tensions between local... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

leads to the possibility of strategic delay by decision participants who differ in their preferences and are limited by the resources they can allocate to influence decisions. We focus on sources of delay caused by the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

organizations transition to these strategies, there may be tensions and multiple conflicting institutional logics. Additionally, we consider four strategic leadership topics and how they relate to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

transitions to a decade after Rickenbach made this strategic decision, describing the development of the industry and PAREXEL's place within it. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

that could not transition from a passion-driven enterprise to an execution-oriented enterprise." Paul Kohn pondered whether a sense of purpose wanes as an organization reaches a certain size. He commented: "It would be an... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 22 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

mandated language change at a Chilean subsidiary of a large U.S. multinational organization. The engineering-focused subsidiary aiming to facilitate cross-border interactions embedded language acquisition experts to transition all... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

"That said, the outcome depends on the opinions of López Obrador's followers. If they believe that it is illegitimate to challenge the Tribunal's decision (or the results of the recount) with violence, then Mexico will have completed its View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma

he said, adding that it "always" takes four to five years for the right business model to emerge. "That's another reason why it's so difficult for established companies to make the transition and become a leader in an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 19 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

key transitions that shape leaders' careers, specifying processes and moderating conditions for identity transformation. Implications for designing experiences and training that take identity processes into account are drawn. Purchase the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

quite limited. The best path forward involves extensive experimentation and careful evaluation. Publisher's link: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo18508109.html August 2013 Advances in Strategic Management The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/jlerner/private-equity-jobs-and-productivity-8-march-2014-with-ables-and-figures-clean.pdf August 2013 Strategic Management Journal The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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