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- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
solo travelers or small groups. You step inside, press a button for your destination, the door closes, and off you go down a narrow track. Two minutes later—presto, the door opens again and you alight at your destination. You've arrived for your meeting on View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
However, this project was a failure. As one former securities analyst noted, "None of this stuff worked the way it was supposed to." 76 This history seems especially relevant given GM's current attempts to create yet another... View Details
- 05 Apr 2021
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?
senior corporate manager and a highly regarded teacher of future leaders. He cites, for example, lessons he learned working with former Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack. Among other things, they included the abilities to listen,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
the valuation work on this somewhat unorthodox deal. After initial contact with the CEO, we spent a great deal of time ensuring that the key analyst bought into the deal. When intensive negotiations finally... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
innovation, our results also help to explain why technological development was still robust following one of the largest shocks in the history of the U.S. banking system. Working Papers Team Scaffolds: How Minimal Team Structures Enable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
leaders to make those hard decisions either." John argued that what is missing in MMT is that most economic theory works only within a limited range of economic conditions. “While the U.S. will benefit from MMT for perhaps a long... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
studies at HEC Paris. "I've been a banker. I know they work hard. But if a banker works 20 percent harder than someone in another occupation, it doesn't explain getting paid ten View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
for the survey included primarily middle managers in manufacturing plants, although over time the data collection was extended to other industries, such as retail, schools, and hospitals. The approach was to interview those who were high... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
delivery reveals some powerful, and ultimately optimistic, principles. First, the best way truly to reduce health care cost is to improve its quality—better diagnoses, more timely treatment, less invasive methods, getting the right... View Details
- 19 Jan 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: How do I lead in a crisis? What roles does the Board play? What are the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
Harvard Business School professor Stuart Gilson fielded some questions regarding his new book in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean SilverthorneSilverthorne: When should a company consider a major restructuring? Are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
“The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there's nothing.” "The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there's nothing: where there are no roads, where... View Details
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
prospects. After all, starting a company takes a lot of time, resources, and energy, and is a long-haul game. Conditions at the time of founding matter, so entrepreneurs may want to wait for better times and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
fragility of the financial markets. They thought the financial world had become detached from the real economy. And they were upset by the potential for populist reaction to these problems that could lead to damaging legislation. “The View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
customer loyalty management initiatives? What directions should customer loyalty management take in the future? Is it really worth the money invested in it? What do you think? Original Article How many times have you heard that it costs... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
price before that time is a martingale, and the price trajectory afterwards is a supermartingale. Finally, we explore the role of rental markets in sharing information about address value and assuring allocative efficiency. Download View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
Author's Note: Why Leaders Lose Their Way, my article in the June 6, 2011, edition of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, generated a large number of very thoughtful and profound comments. The following article proposes an antidote... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
Herz, he wrote the HBS working paper "Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society" [PDF]. An abridged version of Ebrahim's testimony follows. (The entire testimony is available as a PDF).... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
Massachusetts that works with growers, supermarkets, manufacturers, and other suppliers who donate or offer special buying opportunities for their excess food. The store then sells the food at significantly reduced prices from what is... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
today's companies face. I show that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel