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- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
outcomes. That’s the sense provided by responses to this month’s column. “Seems like humans have learned to control the world but not themselves,” wrote Akn1307hbs in a concern shared by others.... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
definition of that for the layman? How long has the concept been around in marketing? Wathieu: The idea involves letting consumers take control of variables that are conventionally pre-determined by marketers: product characteristics,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
Hollywood studios can determine the rules of the game. Another key difference concerns the extent to which markets are influenced by piracy. Piracy is a global problem, but I think it is particularly detrimental to box office grosses in... View Details
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
costs," he continues, "while readily identifiable and daunting, must be compared with the potentially large benefits created by managerial specialization and the ability to access differentiated resources easily." In the following... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
the structure of the industries in which their firms competed. Bogle and Kelleher died earlier this month, more than 40 years after each made their mark on the competitive landscape by leading organizations... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
For Harvard Business School faculty, summer marks the perfect time to catch up on reading for work and pleasure. We asked six faculty what they're looking forward to digging into over the next few months. Jeff Bussgang wo of my books... View Details
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
Editor's note: On October 1, 2009, the People's Republic of China turned 60 years old. To mark this event, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University held a conference titled "The People's Republic of China at 60:... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 14 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid
Carolina Governor Mark Sanford (R) has suggested an option that is worth serious consideration in other states. His plan gives Medicaid enrollees a choice: Every recipient would obtain catastrophic and preventive coverage as well as a... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
book excerpt Forecasters From the introduction of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's Economic Forecasters By Walter A. Friedman This is a book about a group of entrepreneurs who, like Evangeline Adams, identified a business... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
view," but to ask how, if at all, organizations can or should be defended against the response from Anonymous? Its actions, triggered by the attacks on Wikileaks, hinted at a future of everything from Internet mischief (a la... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 09 Jul 2014
- News
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible,... View Details
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
path between the traditional top-down, inside-the-tent corporate structure and unbridled license to suppliers to do as they want. Marked by high levels of direction and support, this approach offers... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
We’ve Now Been Asking “What Do You Think?” for 20 Years
This month marks the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of my “What do you think?” column. The Working Knowledge website was the brainchild of a faculty and staff committee organized in 2000 by then Dean... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
and other types of data are still locked away from Internet users. It's really going to be about great execution.— Mark Kroese, MSN "Rather than leave someone behind, the approach we at Google take is, 'Let's make all that... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
of Leading Innovation, was written by Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, with Greg Brandeau, former CTO of The Walt Disney Studios and current COO/president of Media Maker; Emily Truelove, a PhD candidate... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
pay-for-performance plans in the early 1990s. Within three years, all had dropped them. In a recent talk to HBS faculty and in two working papers, which he co-authored with Nancy Katz and Mark D. Cannon, respectively, Beer explained why... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2015
- News