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03 Jul 2008
What Do You Think?

Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

similarly suggests that the proper question is now ... 'are leaders about to get their due?'" What do you think? Original Article Recent books have examined every aspect of leadership. Few have addressed challenges for those of us... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

In a recently published book on current international research in business history, edited by Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones, HBS professor emeritus Alfred D. Chandler Jr. contributed an... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

13 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

increased insomnia. “The more time-pressed you feel, the lower your well-being,” Whillans says. She hopes the study—Buying Time Promotes Happiness, which was published in the August issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Jul 2007
What Do You Think?

How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

organizational performance. In a thought-provoking book published last year, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton suggest that the overriding impact of leadership on performance is a myth, or at least only a... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

Review), the book shows the value of applying scholarly business theories to major life decisions. The key idea is that the same causal mechanisms that drive big businesses can be just as effective in driving our personal lives. Religion... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

compiled by Harris Wittels, author of Humblebrag, The Art of False Modesty, and found more than 1 in 10 were about being too busy or “not having a life.” (A typical example: “Hi, I’m 16 and I’m publishing 3 View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

This opinion piece, first published in the New York Times in August 2005, has been updated by Pankaj Ghemawat for HBS Working Knowledge.Mighty Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, must feel less like a hotbed of retailing and... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

the next decade or so will have to deal with. Q: What else are you working on? A: After Managing Across Borders (on which this Harvard Business Review article "What is a Global Manager?" was based), Sumantra Ghoshal and I wrote a View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

in Book Publishing Book publishing is changing before our very eyes, even if the industry itself is fighting the transition with every comma it... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

management consulting services for life science companies. By 2015, the company was expanding beyond the biopharmaceutical industry, offering analytical services to health care systems, like the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom. In June, 2015,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

"jerk" be tapped with some degree of consistency? Is it worth it? What do you think? Original Article The annoying employee who makes his numbers while alienating those around him will gain needed attention in the coming months with at least one View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

search, we found nearly 3,000 articles and books had been published on some of the topics you just mentioned. However, there was an apparent discrepancy. There had been this wide, long-standing recognition... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

30 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

It's not often that a best seller inspires academic research. If anything, it's usually the other way around. But Harvard Business School Associate Professor Diego A. Comin was motivated by reading Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond's 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 25

Publications 2006 pub Leviathan Evolving: New Varieties of State Capitalism in Brazil and Beyond By: Musacchio, Aldo, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

Harvard Business Review editor-at-large, Nicholas G. Carr, ignited a firestorm in the opinion piece "Why IT Doesn't Matter" published in the May 2003 issue of HBR. Carr's argument wasn't exactly that IT doesn't matter, but... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

fields of sociology, economics, and business administration as well. All 3 books have received enormous attention and will continue to do so. But it should also be remembered that Al made contributions to business history throughout his... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time

years ago, he found the last serious analysis on firm growth was conducted in 1959, in Edith Penrose’s book The Theory of the Growth of the Firm. “I’d like to think we’ve learned a lot since then,” Pisano says. Getting a better... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

years, this paper presents a significant revision of the model of creativity and innovation in organizations published in Research in Organizational Behavior in 1988. This update focuses primarily on the individual-level psychological... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

world with two pieces in particular, both published in Harvard Business Review: "Marketing Myopia" (1960) and "The Globalization of Markets" (1983). With nearly 900,000 reprints sold to date, "Marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

organizations in Latin America and Spain. For good governance you need some degree of overlap between governance and management.— Ezequiel A. Reficco This research will be published in Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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