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- 29 Jun 2020
- News
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
- Research Summary
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By: Nancy F. Koehn
My research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Using the lens of history, my work examines how individual leaders from business, government and other walks accomplish important—often seemingly...
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- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
2020 has been a challenging year for leaders, their companies, and their employees. When we asked 600 CEOs earlier this year what keeps them awake at night during this global pandemic, many cited the need to reduce expenses, including payroll costs, in response to...
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by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
In the severe economic, social, and scientific turbulence churning at the dawn of the twentieth century, people were eager for any semblance of stability and predictability. From this need for certainty emerged a group of entrepreneurs...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2021
- News
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
- 2013
- Book
The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
The question of how to lead successfully and responsibly is crucially important in our uncertain, high-pressure, turbulent world. In this book, Joseph Badaracco answers this question in practical and, at times, provocative ways.
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Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World. Harvard Business Review Press, 2013.
- November 1996 (Revised June 1999)
- Case
Living on Internet Time: Product Development at Netscape, Yahoo!, NetDynamics, and Microsoft
By: Marco Iansiti and Alan D. MacCormack
Describes how four companies in the Internet software market approach product development. Drawing upon short case studies of three recent projects, students are invited to synthesize the common attributes of development practice in turbulent environments.
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Product Development;
Internet and the Web;
Applications and Software;
Situation or Environment;
Volatility;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Research and Development;
Information Technology Industry;
United States
Iansiti, Marco, and Alan D. MacCormack. "Living on Internet Time: Product Development at Netscape, Yahoo!, NetDynamics, and Microsoft." Harvard Business School Case 697-052, November 1996. (Revised June 1999.)
- July 2000 (Revised May 2001)
- Case
WebMD (A)
Discusses the emerging role of the Internet in the health care industry and describes the strategy of WebMD in this new "ehealth" space. Issues include technology strategy, industry transformation, competition in turbulent environments, and strategic alliances.
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Internet and the Web;
Alliances;
Competitive Advantage;
Industry Structures;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry
Coughlan, Peter J., Michael G. Rukstad, and Carl Johnston. "WebMD (A)." Harvard Business School Case 701-007, July 2000. (Revised May 2001.)
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Businesses Don't Really Care About You
- 09 Jan 2018
- News
Think New England Is Cold? Try Antarctica
- December 2009 (Revised June 2010)
- Supplement
Goldman Sachs: A Bank for All Seasons (B)
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Tiffany Lynne Obenchain
Having taken steps to shore up investor confidence, during the turbulent fourth quarter of 2008, Goldman Sachs confronts the challenge of whether its business model will continue to be viable under radically altered market conditions and a new regulatory regime.
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Financial Crisis;
Investment Banking;
Financial Management;
Financial Strategy;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Business Strategy;
Banking Industry
Goldberg, Lena G., and Tiffany Lynne Obenchain. "Goldman Sachs: A Bank for All Seasons (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 310-056, December 2009. (Revised June 2010.)
- 05 Oct 2017
- News
Why Great Leaders Are Forged in Crisis
- 11 Aug 2020
- News
The 7 hallmarks of good leadership in the pandemic
- Awards
NASDAQ Award for Best Paper on Market Microstructure
Winner of the 2016 Best Paper in Market Microstructure Award for “The Value of Trading Relationships in Turbulent Times” with Zhaogang Song and Amir Kermani (forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics). The award was sponsored by NASDAQ at the Annual...
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- 15 Jan 2018
- News
Mountain Money - January 15, 2018
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Goodbye, New York: Amazon Pulls Out Of HQ In Queens
- 14 May 2020
- News
Leading Yourself In Crisis with Nancy Koehn
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 12 May 2016
- Webinars: Career
Adding Resilience to Your Career Toolkit
How can we handle adversity in our lives, whether it is the day-to-day stressors we face or major turbulence that hits us periodically? According to Professor Joshua Margolis, it is possible to build resilience by taking charge of how one both thinks about and reacts...
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- 06 Oct 2016
- HBS Seminar