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- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
Kaurman and Derek C.M. van Bever, also senior lecturers with prior leadership experience in the private sector. Huber recently sat down with Harvard Business School Working Knowledge to discuss how an automotive executive ended up... View Details
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
been to teach students and executives strategies for creating value, or integration. Many negotiation scholars and teachers go one step further, arguing that value creation has a positive impact on society in general. After all, if we can... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
support functions. Rather than dictating the company-level measures down to the operating units, leaders encourage the operating units to define their own strategy—based on local market conditions, competition, operating technologies, and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
independence without sacrificing energy security in the EU. The case chronicles latest efforts, and unintended consequences, by all-union authorities in Brussels to untie the Russian knot by implanting American inventions in the European soil: liberalized, transparent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
professors weigh in with their views on leadership in action. Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing (20,015) About 95 percent of new products fail. The problem often is that their creators are using an ineffective View Details
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
together. What's more, knowing whether two congressional members went to the same college can help predict the outcome of pending legislation on the Senate floor. “And so we got to thinking, if a school connection makes information flow so easily in informal... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Cheng, J. Yo-Jud, and Boris Groysberg Abstract—: Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
the Dutch IT outsourcing market and regularly wins high customer- satisfaction marks. The growing workload and 100% promise to customers have increased the pressure on its non-hierarchical teams of engineers, as well as the hiring speed,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
beginning of the Industrial Age that the advent of mass production would mean there would be no jobs for the vast majority of the population, but we reinvested and gained productivity and expanded the economy." Innovation has driven the country's strength in world... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
research. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49810 October 2015 Journal of Labor Economics The Value of Bosses By: Lazear, Edward P., Kathryn L. Shaw, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—How and by how much do... View Details
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
adult decision maker. Finally, we list a set of open questions that could be profitably addressed by future research. Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts Authors:Marco Piovesan, Antonio... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
democratize information and change the way that stocks are traded, threatening the industry's product and business model. There were upheavals and stagnation in established core financial markets such as the U.S., Japan, and Western... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
crossing cultural borders. Two of the seventeen case sequences she has developed for the course so far — "Siam Cement Group: Corporate Philosophy" and "The Haier Group" — take place in Thailand and China, respectively. Named Asia's most ethical... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
"dilution" resulting from the introduction of an online MBA by a highly regarded onsite program, Joshua Doherty questioned the futures of top-tier schools that may lose their ability "to exploit the market power of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
software, consumer electronics, and pharmaceuticals. Such companies hold many important patents and boast R&D labs that rival facilities at the best universities in the world. They are headquartered in countries with myriad institutions that support innovation:... View Details
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
House version of the CHOICE Act were passed into law, an individual investor in Exxon Mobil would need to own at least $3.49 billion of stock in order to be permitted to submit a proposal for shareholder consideration, based on the company’s View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
innovation portrayed in the census data differed from what she had read in the press. "It was clear that firms were actually doing far less of it than you would think if you read the newspaper." The e-business that was being done among survey participants matched the... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
do; they get them with the confirmation of a purchase rather than ahead of time. Were there a five-day waiting period before an order could be placed, the current system would perform better. But people want to act quickly, and in markets... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
innovation. Who should read this book—and what do you hope they take away from it most of all? Karim Lakhani: There are two main audiences for the book. The first is executives and managers who care about innovation and how to organize... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman