532 Posts found for Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge

Multinationals that try to force existing operations into foreign markets are in deep trouble, according to From Global to Metanational: How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economy. Instead, businesses must leverage knowledge from around the world to become “metanational.” Plus: Author Q&A.

Editor’s Note: I had some issues with this article (e.g. it tells what to do without telling how to do it and it … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Jose Santos, Peter J. Williamson, Yves Doz | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: International, Strategy

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr. examines the development of two pivotal industries – the consumer electronics and computer industries.

Content: Article | Author: Alfred D. Chandler Jr. | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: History

Show me a hero and I’ll tell you a tragedy.

Content: Quotation | Author: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Life, Success / Failure

What’s it like doing business in Islamic countries today? HarvardBusiness School professor Samuel L. Hayes III and Harvard Law Schoolprofessor Frank E. Vogel recently gave students the real deal.

Content: Article | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: International – Middle East

Informational seminars can be more than effective marketing tools—they can help you build customer relations. But organizing a seminar is a lot more than renting a hall and demonstrating your product.

Content: Article | Author: Nick Wreden | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Marketing / Sales

How do managers hone the skills they need to survive and thrive in different geographical and cultural environments? In this excerpt from a new book, experts Morgan W. McCall, Jr. and George P. Hollenbeck offer some answers. PLUS: Q&A.

Content: Article | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Career

Not to mince words, but corporate budgeting is a joke, argues HBS professor emeritus Michael C. Jensen in this Harvard Business Review excerpt. The problem isn’t with the budget process—it’s when budget targets are used to determine compensation.

Content: Article | Author: Michael C. Jensen | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Finance, Management

Pressure to meet the numbers is greater than ever. But don’t let your company issue a misleading earnings report. An excerpt from the Harvard Business Review shows how to spot signs of trouble.

Content: Article | Authors: H. David Sherman, S. David Young | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Accounting, Finance | Industry: Investing

Performance appraisals used to be a way to reward employees. Now so-called forced rankings are being used to lay them off. But will you be sued if you use them?

Content: Article | Author: Loren Gary | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

In their book, The War for Talent, Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod predict that the crucial force that will make or break firms in the next two decades will be their ability to attract, develop, and retain managers at all levels.

Content: Article | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Companies have traditionally embraced proprietary, in-house information systems. Until now, that is.

Content: Article | Authors: John Hagel III, John Seely Brown | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

There’s nothing new about globalization—but it is becoming more complex, or “thick,” write Joseph S. Nye and Robert O. Keohane of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. One result: Small occurrences can have global consequences. Plus: Nye Q&A.

Content: Article | Authors: John D. Donahue, Joseph S. Nye | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: International

Corporate governance can be difficult enough—but what happens when your board of directors is comprised of your cousins? Or when your CEO is your sister? Harvard Business School’s John Davis discusses governance issues unique to the family-run business.

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Content: Article | Author: John Davis | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Corporate Governance

Nonprofits and business have a long history of collaboration, and the benefits run both ways. In this excerpt from HBS professor James Austin’s latest working paper, three levels of collaboration are detailed. Plus: Austin Q&A.

Content: Article | Author: James Austin | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Nonprofit

What to do when your share price flounders? The tool of choice for many companies is a value-based management (VBM) program tying an economic profit metric to compensation. The problem: Results have been mediocre.

Content: Article | Authors: Fares Boulos, Philippe Haspeslagh, Tomo Noda | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Management

It’s important to distinguish between creativity and art. The most common form of creativity is problem solving: You can’t get the truck through the tunnel, so you let the air out of the tires. I presume that businesspeople are very good at this kind of creativity…

By contrast, art depends on whether you can invent something from very little… Of course, skill and learning are also … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Creativity

Authors take a look at the basic requirements to succeed in early-stage investing, specifically illustrating the Harvard Framework (called FIT Analysis when I was getting my MBA)

Content: Article | Authors: David Amis, Howard Stevenson | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Strategy

[this push for creativity], it’s all so completely phony. Look at education: There’s this horrible homogenization going on – everybody has got to be special. So if it’s somebody’s birthday in grade school, then you have to celebrate everybody’s birthday, all year long. Everyone gets absolutely equal treatment; nobody is allowed to stick out—whether it’s because they are behaving badly or are brilliantly smart. Everyone … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Creativity, Innovation

In this first look at a new book, HBS professors Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria explore how human nature shapes business organizations. Does your organization reflect the four basic human drives (acquiring, bonding, learning, and defending)? Plus: Q&A.

Content: Article | Authors: Nitin Nohria, Paul Lawrence | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

The problem with focus groups? They take consumers out of their natural habitat. So welcome the idea of ethnographic market research, which uses the anthropologist’s tool kit of methods and theories.

Content: Article | Author: Jennifer McFarland | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Market Research