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- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
Oxford University Press, 2012 Abstract The concept of insurance was introduced to China in the early nineteenth century by Westerners trading in Guangzhou and practised essentially among them. We argue that indigenization of insurance, in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
listening. —David Garvin and Michael Roberto Some questions open up discussion; others narrow it and end deliberations. Contrarian hypothetical questions usually trigger healthy debate. A manager who worked for former American Express CEO... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
Success of Entertainment Products." Sarah Jane Gilbert: Tell us about "star power" and how it contributes to a film's success. Anita Elberse: The concept "star power" captures the extent to which an artist's... View Details
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
States, according to data from the World Health Organization. By 2017, the per capita expenditure in Haiti had dropped to $13. No surprise, then, that many of Partner in Health’s clinics had no accounting systems in place and no resources to develop them; it was all... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
standards. Some public intervention is necessary—and that public intervention manifests itself as institutions operate not through a competitive market process, but through a democratic political process. Therein lies the rub. Once the market is View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
again, 99 percent of the time there was something wrong with it.” 3. Create informal and formal shared context—called ba in Japan—constantly in order to construct new meaning through human interactions. Takeuchi likens the Japanese View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53918 forthcoming Journal of Management Studies Disruptive Innovation: An Intellectual History and Directions for Future Research By: Christensen, Clayton M., Rory McDonald, Elizabeth J. Altman, and Jonathan E.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
of discovery and creative progress rapidly accelerated in the wake of professionalization. In an open society, moreover, there will always be room for "rogue" entrepreneurs to challenge the existing order, as practitioners of... View Details
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
information is delivered." One possible line would include information about a company's strategy. Brad Keller commented that "It takes more than just sharing financials or performance review data It is really a matter of being View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
found a way out of her seed funding dilemma and, in the process, also opened new opportunities for women and people of color in Miami. She used the crowdfunding service Wefunder, which connects startups with investors online. "I know... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
include openness and honesty. "Live them rigorously, and fire people who won’t, regardless of level, role or title.” Clearly, both dysfunctional strategies and cultures can help explain poor timing in implementing plans and... View Details
- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
J.C. Cuddy, Caroline A. Wilmuth, and Dana R. Carney Abstract The current experiment tested whether changing one's nonverbal behavior prior to a high-stakes social evaluation could improve performance in the evaluated task. Participants adopted expansive, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
different logic, and a few make absurd awards. They are secretive and only recently have some opened their hearings to inputs from "friends of the court." A good appellate process would encourage consistency, consideration of the... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
US. This would allow them to open plants overseas to help in lowering manufacturing costs, yet still keep their iconic image.” Fahd suggested that the Company “look into building every continent’s bikes within the same region while... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
personal computer and to do so within a single year. The unit's revenues were $500 million at the close of the first year, close to Apple's $600 million. By 1983 and 1984 they had soared to $5.5 billion. Moreover, IBM's personal computer was an View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
civic duty to better understand the biotech wave. This book was an amazing portal into the invention of CRISPR and some of the big personalities and battles that led to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year. Walter Isaacson is a wonderful storyteller and a master at... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
for all to work forever" to Deepak Alse's, "Do not retire employees; treat them as part of an extended family where their services may be required." The timeliness of the issue was emphasized by information from Richard Eckel that the FASB (in the U.S.)... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
all) available seats. Boston’s school choice system, for example, reserved half of each school’s seats for local neighborhood applicants while leaving the other half for open competition. This paper shows that in the presence of reserves,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
innovation strategy, design a system for creativity, and build up an enterprise’s cultural DNA. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, shares insights in our Q&A. Martha Lagace: Your title, Creative Construction, plays with a famous... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
Cashing in on the $60 billion global luxury goods market has never been tougher—or more rewarding. Competition is keen. And consumer preferences are constantly shifting, causing the concept of luxury itself to change over time. As a... View Details