Filter Results
:
(1,294)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,591)
- People (8)
- News (720)
- Research (1,294)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (18)
- Faculty Publications (424)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,591)
- People (8)
- News (720)
- Research (1,294)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (18)
- Faculty Publications (424)
Sort by
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
for shareholders." Perhaps with this in mind, a small but growing number of public company CEOs are electing not to provide earnings guidance, risking reduced interest on the part of analysts and...
View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
View Details
Keywords:
by Dina Gerdeman
- August 1996 (Revised June 2007)
- Case
Nicholson File Company Takeover (A), The
By: Thomas R. Piper
The financial vice president must decide the value and form of an acquisition offer to be made to a small hand tool company.
View Details
Keywords:
Negotiation Preparation;
Valuation;
Negotiation Participants;
Negotiation Offer;
Acquisition;
Manufacturing Industry
Piper, Thomas R. "Nicholson File Company Takeover (A), The." Harvard Business School Case 297-011, August 1996. (Revised June 2007.)
- September 2018 (Revised January 2019)
- Teaching Note
Gemini Investors
By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Teaching Note for HBS No. 211-066. Gemini Investors was a private equity firm that targeted equity investments of between $4 million to $6 million per firm. In the period from 2000 to 2015, Gemini had successfully deployed four funds, all licensed as Small Business...
View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
obviously the most challenging. Lagace: What are common errors when companies try to create innovative cultures? Pisano: Big companies too often try to emulate startup cultures, and that’s misguided. First...
View Details
Keywords:
by Martha Lagace
- December 1997 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Hewlett Packard: Creating, Running, and Growing an Enduring Company
By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
Traces the development of Hewlett-Packard Co. from a small start-up company in 1938 to a world-class manufacturer of electronic instruments and computer products. Examines the challenges of starting and running a small company, including financing, human resources...
View Details
Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Product Positioning;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Startups;
Brands and Branding;
Computer Industry;
Electronics Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Courtney Purrington. "Hewlett Packard: Creating, Running, and Growing an Enduring Company." Harvard Business School Case 698-052, December 1997. (Revised February 2000.)
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
in the United States and Europe. Within this new scenario, three groups play unique roles: policymakers who identify and use groups for support; companies that understand the interests of diffuse groups and tap them to reap larger profits...
View Details
Keywords:
by Kim Girard
- 02 Aug 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?
Fifth Third’s employees back to the office he remarked that, “We can’t be a great company working remotely We can get the job done, but it’s tough to flourish.” The comment refers to Fifth Third’s management core. Like many service...
View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
can actually use." Paul Hamilton-Smith opined that software companies "mostly subsist from their renewal revenue stream. That stream is generated by 'new and improved' software versions." And Julian Lowe commented that...
View Details
- 11 Oct 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Baseball’s Billy Beane Shows Companies the Power of Data
- 2011
- Book
The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steve J. Kramer
The most effective managers have the ability to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives-consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine...
View Details
Keywords:
Creativity;
Interpersonal Communication;
Employee Relationship Management;
Leadership;
Performance Effectiveness;
Emotions;
Motivation and Incentives;
Groups and Teams;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Leadership;
Working Conditions;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Skills;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Productivity;
Attitudes;
Behavior;
Happiness;
Perception;
Trust;
Time Management;
Resource Allocation;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Managerial Roles
Amabile, Teresa M., and Steve J. Kramer. The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work. Harvard Business Review Press, 2011.
- 07 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back
Most companies fail. It's an unsettling fact for bright-eyed entrepreneurs, but old news to start-up veterans. But here's the good news: Experienced entrepreneurs know that running a company that eventually...
View Details
Keywords:
by Carmen Nobel
- August 1994 (Revised November 1994)
- Case
Saturn: A Different Kind of Car Company
Saturn was General Motors' (GM) response to Japanese companies' dominance of the small car market during the mid-1980s. In the three-and-a-half years since its first sedan rolled off the assembly line, the Saturn Corp. had accumulated an impressive list of...
View Details
McGahan, Anita M., and Greg Keller. "Saturn: A Different Kind of Car Company." Harvard Business School Case 795-010, August 1994. (Revised November 1994.)
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
also draw people out, so that they can feel accepted and their coworkers can get to know them more deeply. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company ended every meeting by inviting participants to discuss “moments of joy” in their lives....
View Details
Keywords:
by Ranjay Gulati
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
easier time going to his investors, a small group of people, many of whom sit on the company board," Farre-Mensa says. "He will be able to convey information to them and openly discuss whether an...
View Details
Keywords:
by Maggie Starvish
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
In a hypercompetitive global economy, creativity has never been more important for success . But how do you create a company that unleashes and capitalizes on innovation? For answers, writers at the HBS Alumni Bulletin turned to five HBS...
View Details
- December 2011
- Case
Roger Caracappa: Package Deals for the Estée Lauder Companies
Roger Caracappa must negotiate a cost-saving, innovative proposal from a potential French supplier that could displace the otherwise satisfactory, long-time incumbent supplier. Shortly after being promoted to executive vice president of the Estée Lauder Companies with...
View Details
Keywords:
Operations;
Supply Chain Management;
Change;
Innovation and Invention;
Cost vs Benefits;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Sebenius, James K. "Roger Caracappa: Package Deals for the Estée Lauder Companies." Harvard Business School Case 912-003, December 2011.
- 14 Jun 2023
- Op-Ed
Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't
developing leaders different kinds of operational experience. For example, suppose a company wants to help an individual become an LTL. The organization might offer the employee opportunities to oversee View Details
Keywords:
by Hise Gibson
- 18 May 2009
- Other Presentation
Regional Competitiveness in a Global Economy: A Small Business Led Economic Strategy for America
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2007/08 (World...
View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Regional Competitiveness in a Global Economy: A Small Business Led Economic Strategy for America." In National Small Business Week 2009. Champion Award Winners Luncheon, U.S. Small Business Adminstration, Washington, DC, May 18, 2009.
- June 17, 2016
- Comment
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
By: John A. Quelch
Recent events in Orlando underscore an important marketing truth: consumer safety and security are mission critical. A popular nightclub, Pulse, known as a safe place for the LGBT community, is put out of business at least temporarily by a terrorist act. Not far away...
View Details
Keywords:
Consumer Safety;
Public Safety;
Brand Attraction;
Risk Management;
Safe Environment Benefit;
Marketing Safety;
Global Brands;
Advertising;
Change Management;
Disruption;
Volatility;
Crime and Corruption;
Customers;
Music Entertainment;
Animation Entertainment;
Film Entertainment;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Communications;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Marketing;
Consumer Behavior;
Problems and Challenges;
Safety;
Corporate Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Tourism Industry;
Travel Industry;
United States
Quelch, John A. "Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (June 17, 2016). (Republished by Fortune.com as "What the Orlando Tragedies Can Teach Businesses" on June 20, 2016.)