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- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
of the question in which “Apple CEO Tim Cook” was replaced by “Indiana-based Angie’s List [then-] CEO Bill Oesterle,” or the “mayor of Indianapolis.” Others received a version in which they were simply told...
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- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
up your mind.” "The computer industry creates more has-beens more quickly than any other. Steve was determined not to be one of them." There are two reasons that only Steve Jobs could have saved Apple in 1997. First, Jobs persuaded Bill...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
forces with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Boston Consulting Group to determine how business leaders can partner more effectively with educators to support America's students and schools. "Study after study has shown...
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- 12 Oct 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
"confounding questions, inane comments, and verbal bullets." This excerpt looks at attack strategies used by naysayers: fear mongering, delay, confusion, ridicule. For more information, read Kotter's HBR.org blog post, Know Your...
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by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in...
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- 02 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?
laws that seek to give workers more bargaining power by requiring companies to disclose employee salaries. However, opening up the books for all to see has put 2 to 3 percent less cash in workers’ pockets, at least in the US private...
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by Avery Forman
- 05 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements
Bill Clinton about allegations of his having had an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. In his answers, the president speaks in the present tense as a way of dodging Lehrer’s questions. Jim Lehrer: “No improper...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
at Harvard, we have initiated and hosted an annual Great Negotiator Award series over the past six years, sponsored by an inter-university consortium of Harvard, MIT, and Tufts through the Program on Negotiation. Honorees have included...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2023
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023
from Bill Gates’ How to Avoid a Climate Disaster to Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future by Saul Griffith. But even grounded books such as The Disposable City View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?
“Engagement comes from spirit, and if the organization has little or no spirit—if it see mission as simply ‘maximizing shareholder value’—then engagement will remain an elusive thing.” George Yurieff added that “as long as the order entry...
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by James Heskett
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
new books to come from Patrick Rothfuss and George R. R. Martin." This summer I want to complete the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells—a super fun series about a killer robot that sometimes passes as human....
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by Kathryn Haviland
- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
Business Review in 1993. Michael Hammer and James Champy, Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (New York: HarperCollins, 1993). Brian Hancock and Bill Schaninger, “The vanishing middle manager,” McKinsey...
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by James Heskett
- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
program successful. Neeley, who has studied this unmined subject for nearly 10 years, worked closely on the case with Mikitani, described by some as Japan's Bill Gates. Mikitani expected that the initial...
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by Kim Girard
- 20 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle
Americans are working longer hours than ever before, with the office increasingly stealing our leisure time. But according to new research by Anat Keinan, this hectic way of life is, for many of us, far from an unmitigated negative. In...
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by Michael Blanding
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
Representatives passed a bill granting shareholders a non-binding vote on executive compensation and severance packages. It also maintains that compensation committees should be independent of management. But given its non-binding status,...
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- 31 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs
What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In "UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action?" Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest Reinhardt present the...
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- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
achieve their goals. I've been especially interested in the pattern of succession in many entrepreneurial firms—specifically, that many founders are replaced by "professional" CEOs early in the life of the venture. My data shows...
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- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
only two short sessions in 1959. At the age of 32, Davis coaxed innovative ideas out of his players—among them greats including John Coltrane and Bill Evans—that took everyone by surprise. He also remade the...
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