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  • 14 Jan 2019
  • Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

Four titans who defined a new era in business during the past decade recently concluded their terms: PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi, Unilever’s Paul Polman, Mayo Clinic’s John Noseworthy, and US Bancorp’s Richard Davis. When they became CEOs, the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

Summing Up What Role Will Management Play in Saving US Health Care? The verdict is in, according to respondents of this month's column: Problems confronting health care in the US are much larger and broader than those that can be solved View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 04 Oct 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

copy of an extensively researched recent book, Power, for All, by Professors Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro. The authors define power as “the ability to influence others’ behavior, be it through persuasion or coercion (through)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

    Bloomberg: Harvard Case Studies Show ESG Can Also Generate Alpha

    Harvard Business School Professor and former investment banker Vikram Gandhi discusses impact and sustainable investing. Hosted by Lisa Abramowicz and Paul Sweeney. View Details
    • 01 Mar 2023
    • What Do You Think?

    How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

    (iStockphoto/PeopleImages) An organization’s mission is widely recognized as its reason for being. Enlightened leaders have long known and believed that the heart of an organization’s culture is described not just by “how we do things... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 06 Sep 2005
    • What Do You Think?

    What are the Lessons of New Orleans?

    Summing Up Management is a complex process. Good plans executed poorly may be worse than poor plans executed well. This is never truer than at times of disaster, in which plans made from afar have to be implemented by those on the scene... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 05 Sep 2008
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

    Summing Up Is the case method gaining relevance over time? Case method instruction may not be perfect, but to paraphrase Winston Churchill's view of democracy (and Sameer Kamat's response to the column), it's better than the alternatives. At least that's the impression... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Education
    • 14 Feb 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

    North of their organization: its mission, values, and strategy. They should create clarity around this True North and refuse to let external events pull them off course or cause them to neglect or abandon their mission, which must be their guiding light. CEO View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George
    • 28 Jun 2022
    • Book

    The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

    How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 16 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

    “People are resilient in their desire to eat out, and perhaps a bit bored with what’s in their refrigerators, so eager to enjoy some of their dining occasions prepared by someone outside their own homes.” View Details
    Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
    • 2022
    • Book

    Private Equity

    By: Paul A. Gompers and Steven N. Kaplan
    This Advanced Introduction provides an illustrative guide to private equity, integrating insights from academic research with examples to derive practical recommendations. Paul Gompers and Steven Kaplan begin by reviewing the history of private equity then exploring... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Funds; Value Creation
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    • 11 Apr 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, April 11

    biased forecasts for potential future employers are more likely to face favorable career outcomes and bank executives appear to profit from the analysts' bias since the bias is associated with higher levels of insider trading. Our results highlight the bias created... View Details
    • 02 Dec 2010
    • What Do You Think?

    Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

    using art to sharpen the intuitiveness that goes into the moment of choice." Others maintained that choosing is neither an art nor a science. Laurence McKinney said, "We ultimately base our decisions on 'feelings'" and emotions, aided View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 18 Apr 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Ideas, April 18

    March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical assets View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Jul 2020
    • News

    20-30% of Small Businesses Will Fail Despite PPP

    • 07 May 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

    personality. Something of a dandy, Schumpeter (1883-1950) was a hit with women, adored by students, and both made and lost a fortune in a matter of years. He also once initiated a sword fight with a librarian—and won. McCraw, the Isidor... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education
    • 03 Oct 2005
    • What Do You Think?

    What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

    and continues to be a lack of good leadership! . . . The politics of international labor interaction are extremely complex and will require tremendous leadership ability to negotiate win-win deals across countries so that employees of corporations in diverse nations... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 25 Aug 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Why IT Does Matter

    cost performance of IT technologies over the first forty years changed by roughly 107, and for the foreseeable future will continue to evolve at the same rate. That is in sharp contrast to a train, which after eighty years moved six times... View Details
    Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
    • 24 Apr 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: April 24

    experience increases in interest rates, a devaluation of the currency, and, eventually, a restructuring of the country's debt. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212091-PDF-ENG Fighting Corruption at Siemens Paul... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 01 Nov 2021
    • Op-Ed

    Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love

    him, revealed him to be a master of using intrinsic rewards as motivational tools. Here are four ways to be a better coach of individuals based on his wisdom: 1. Boost self-confidence Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Timothy Gallwey... View Details
    Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Sports