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- 18 Oct 2012
- Other Presentation
Two Decades of Research on Competitiveness and Clusters: A Conversation with Michael Porter
Michael Porter at the TCI Conference 2012
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Porter, Michael E. "Two Decades of Research on Competitiveness and Clusters: A Conversation with Michael Porter." 15th TCI Annual Global Conference, Spain, October 18, 2012.
- September 21, 2012
- Article
A Presidential Campaign Should Be a Conversation
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Slind. "A Presidential Campaign Should Be a Conversation." Harvard Business Review (website) (September 21, 2012).
- 2012
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Shelly London and Ethics Education—'Strengthening Our Moral Compass'
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Anne Arlinghaus
Shelly London and Ethics Education — 'Strengthening Our Moral Compass'
2009 AL Fellow
Following a successful career as a Senior Vice President, Vice President, and Chief Communications Officer at two large corporate companies, Shelly London set out to promote... View Details
Following a successful career as a Senior Vice President, Vice President, and Chief Communications Officer at two large corporate companies, Shelly London set out to promote... View Details
Keywords:
Leadership Skills;
Ethics Education;
Initiatives;
Morality;
Moral Compass;
Prima Facie;
Grassroots Movement;
Ethical Reasoning;
Decision-making;
Social Media;
Media Relations;
Family Dinner Project;
Public Conversations Project;
Laura Chasin;
Computer Games;
Video Games;
Quandary;
Organizational Structure;
Infrastructure;
Ethics;
Education;
Moral Sensibility;
Behavior;
Decision Making;
Leadership;
Innovation and Management;
Education Industry;
Service Industry;
North and Central America
- August 2012 (Revised August 2013)
- Background Note
Competency-Destroying Technology Transitions: Why the Transition to Digital Is Particularly Challenging
By: Willy Shih
Some technology transitions are exceedingly difficult for incumbent firms to execute. The bankruptcy filing by the Eastman Kodak Company highlighted the difficulty companies faced when their core business transitioned from an analog to a digital world. Kodak's business...
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Keywords:
Technology Transitions;
Competency-destroying;
Digital;
Analog;
Digital Transition;
Modular;
Modularity;
Technological Change;
Radical Innovation;
Incremental Innovation;
Architectural Innovation;
Modular Innovation;
Sustaining Innovation;
Competency-enhancing;
Noise Propagation;
Perfect Copying;
Digital Music;
Digital Media;
Consumer Electronics;
Kodak;
Sony;
Panasonic;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technology Adoption;
Transition;
Change Management;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States
Shih, Willy. "Competency-Destroying Technology Transitions: Why the Transition to Digital Is Particularly Challenging." Harvard Business School Background Note 613-024, August 2012. (Revised August 2013.)
- September 2012
- Other Article
An Interview with Michael Porter: Social Entrepreneurship and the Transformation of Capitalism
By: Michaela Driver and Michael E. Porter
In this interview Michael Porter explores social entrepreneurship in the context of a larger transformation of capitalism. He suggests that social entrepreneurship is an important transitional vehicle toward the creation of shared value and a capitalist system in which...
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Driver, Michaela, and Michael E. Porter. "An Interview with Michael Porter: Social Entrepreneurship and the Transformation of Capitalism." Academy of Management Learning & Education 11, no. 3 (September 2012): 421–431.
- July 2012
- Case
Owen's Precision Machining
By: Ramana Nanda and James McQuade
For the second time in fourteen months, Christopher Owen, the second-generation owner of Owen's Precision Machining (OPM), found himself running out of cash. Owen wondered what he was doing wrong. How much additional money would he need to raise to get OPM through the...
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Cash Flow;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Decision Making;
Problems and Challenges;
Business Strategy;
Corporate Finance;
Manufacturing Industry;
Massachusetts
Nanda, Ramana, and James McQuade. "Owen's Precision Machining." Harvard Business School Case 813-036, July 2012.
- June 11, 2012
- Article
Conversation Starter: How Intimate Are You?
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Slind. "Conversation Starter: How Intimate Are You?" Harvard Business Review (website) (June 11, 2012).
- June 2012
- Article
Leadership Is a Conversation
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
Globalization and new technologies have sharply reduced the efficacy of command-and-control management and its accompanying forms of corporate communication. In the course of a recent research project, the authors concluded that by talking with employees, rather than...
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Keywords:
Employees;
Management Style;
Interpersonal Communication;
Leadership;
Cooperation;
Partners and Partnerships
Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Slind. "Leadership Is a Conversation." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 6 (June 2012).
- 2012
- Book
Talk, Inc. : How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the "magic"--the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement--that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Interpersonal Communication;
Organizational Culture;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Spoken Communication
Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Slind. Talk, Inc. How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations. Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
- May 29, 2012
- Article
Changing the Conversation in Your Company
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Slind. "Changing the Conversation in Your Company." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 29, 2012).
- March 2012
- Article
Enriching the Ecosystem
To remain a leader in innovation, the United States needs the support of foundational institutions that help seed, grow, and renew enterprises. Historically, these institutions-such as universities, venture creators, labor markets, and job-training programs-have tended...
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Keywords:
Innovation and Invention;
Organizations;
Research and Development;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Growth and Development Strategy;
United States
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Enriching the Ecosystem." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012).
- September 2011
- Article
Global Capitalism at Risk: What Are You Doing About It?
Market capitalism, a system that has proven to be a remarkable engine of wealth creation, is poised for a breakdown. That sounds dire, and it is. Increasing income inequality, migration, weaknesses in the global financial system, environmental degradation, and...
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Keywords:
Disruption;
Economic Systems;
Globalization;
Corporate Governance;
Markets;
Risk and Uncertainty
Bower, Joseph L., Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine. "Global Capitalism at Risk: What Are You Doing About It?" Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011).
- April 2011 (Revised July 2014)
- Case
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.: Driving Change Through Internal Communication
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL), confronted in 2003 with an urgent need to change how it operated externally, adopted a highly innovative approach to communicating internally. This case, set in 2010, presents an overview of the new, more interactive model of employee...
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Keywords:
Communication Strategy;
Interpersonal Communication;
Employee Relationship Management;
Innovation and Management;
Leading Change;
Management Practices and Processes;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Corporate Strategy;
India
Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Slind. "Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.: Driving Change Through Internal Communication." Harvard Business School Case 411-077, April 2011. (Revised July 2014.)
- 2011
- Chapter
Developing an Effective Organization: Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory
By: Michael Beer
The field of organization development is fragmented and lacks a coherent and integrated theory and method for developing an effective organization. A 20-year action research program led to the development and evaluation of the Strategic Fitness Process (SFP)-a platform...
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Keywords:
Learning;
Corporate Governance;
Leadership Development;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Teams;
Organizational Design;
Performance Effectiveness;
Research;
Alignment;
Theory;
Value
Beer, Michael. "Developing an Effective Organization: Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory
." In Research in Organizational Change and Development. Vol. 19, edited by Richard Woodman, William Pasmore, and Abraham B. (Rami) Shani, 1–54. Emerald Group Publishing, 2011.
- Article
The Artful Dodger: Answering the Wrong Question the Right Way
By: Todd Rogers and Michael I. Norton
What happens when speakers try to "dodge" a question they would rather not answer by answering a different question? In 4 studies, we show that listeners can fail to detect dodges when speakers answer similar-but objectively incorrect-questions (the "artful dodge"), a...
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Rogers, Todd, and Michael I. Norton. "The Artful Dodger: Answering the Wrong Question the Right Way." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 17, no. 2 (June 2011): 139–147.
- December 2010 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Asian Agri and the Future of Palm Oil
By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
For Asian Agri and other Indonesian palm oil producers, the future promised rising demand from fast-growing Asian populations, but also intensifying criticism from environmental groups. With the highest yield and lowest production cost of any edible oil, palm oil...
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Keywords:
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Social Marketing;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business Strategy;
Supply Chain Management;
Natural Environment;
Marketing Strategy;
Environmental Sustainability;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Indonesia;
Malaysia
Bell, David E., and Natalie Kindred. "Asian Agri and the Future of Palm Oil." Harvard Business School Case 511-015, December 2010. (Revised March 2013.)
- May 20, 2010
- Article
Leaders’ Blindspots Undermine Their Global Language Policies
By: Tsedal Neeley
Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future. The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana, and...
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Neeley, Tsedal. "Leaders’ Blindspots Undermine Their Global Language Policies." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 20, 2010).
- 2010
- Book
Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
By: Youngme Moon
Every few years a book-through a combination of the author's unique voice, storytelling ability, spirit, and insight-simply breaks the mold. Youngme Moon's DIFFERENT is that kind of book, a book for "people who don't read business books...," a book that feels like an...
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Keywords:
Communication Intention and Meaning;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Marketing;
Creativity;
Competition
Moon, Youngme. Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd. Crown, 2010.
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Artful Dodger: Answering the Wrong Question the Right Way
By: Todd Rogers and Michael I. Norton
What happens when people try to "dodge" a question they would rather not answer by answering a different question? In four online studies using paid participants, we show that listeners can fail to detect dodges when speakers answer similar—but objectively...
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Rogers, Todd, and Michael I. Norton. "The Artful Dodger: Answering the Wrong Question the Right Way." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-048, September 2008. (Revised September 2010.)
- January 2008 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Comcast New England: A Journey of Organizational Transformation
By: Michael Beer and Anita Arun
This case describes how Kevin Casey, Comcast's New England Region general manager, transformed a low commitment and performance organization. When he took charge of this Comcast region he inherited an organization that was bureaucratic, had low customer satisfaction,...
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Keywords:
Transformation;
Interpersonal Communication;
Customer Satisfaction;
Employee Relationship Management;
Management Teams;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Structure;
Performance Improvement;
Telecommunications Industry;
New England
Beer, Michael, and Anita Arun. "Comcast New England: A Journey of Organizational Transformation." Harvard Business School Case 908-405, January 2008. (Revised May 2008.)