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- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
categories assigned value? One of the first studies of value construction as a detailed process in new market categories has been written by Mukti Khaire, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
with the downside of thinking slow. So here is what my gut tells me about what you said this month: Thinking slow, as Daniel Kahneman calls it in his recent book by that name, is important under circumstances of high risk, uncertain...
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by James Heskett
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources...
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- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
Here are the 20 most popular stories from 2007. How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater? Summing up the many responses, Jim Heskett says that the mix of control, delegation, and theater employed by successful...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
That’s the way they are typically stated. It implies that you first set out to achieve diversity by bringing in more people of color, and then take steps—through inclusion training, mentoring, fast-tracking, or whatever—to plug the...
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by James Heskett
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
at speeds reaching more than 2,000 miles per hour. By the time it glided to a landing two hours later the ship had won the coveted Ansari X PRIZE, a $10 million award for the first privately funded manned spacecraft to break through the...
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by Michael Blanding
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
colleagues David R. Clough, Tommy Pan Fang, and Balagopal Vissa, Wu recently conducted a review to examine how the entrepreneurial community thinks about acquiring resources, publishing their work in the paper, Turning Lead Into Gold: How...
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- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
Summing Up Is intellectual property becoming community property? Is a new generation of users and consumers of intellectual property produced by new technologies bringing totally different assumptions and attitudes to bear on its...
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by Jim Heskett
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
communication has been elusive. That's too bad, because people have been anticipating profound effects from the ability to collaborate in real time at a distance for a long time. One of our favorite examples of this is described in a paper written in 1968 View Details
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders" by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max H. Bazerman. TIP #2 - Put your money where your mouth is. Leslie John, now an assistant professor at HBS, led an experiment at...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
and James R. Hines Jr. to exploit the unique opportunity provided by confidential, government-collected data on U.S. multinationals. This source effectively provides income statements and balance sheets for...
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- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
European winters—on the brain. And he thinks you should, too. Froot, the André R. Jakurski Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, has spent more than 15 years researching how the reinsurance industry—which...
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- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
advice. He suggested that the company test and refine its business model by initially focusing on one payment operation, for parking tickets, in one U.S. city. The entrepreneurs almost bit off his head. "The leader in this market...
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by Walter Kuemmerle
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
service centers, which are primarily owned by physicians. Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration. Amy C. Edmonson: New ways to balance prevention and sick care...
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by Danielle Kost
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
digital platform, and the increased fiscal pressures created by the worldwide economic crisis. Unfortunately, the educational programs for future health care leaders fail to provide many of the needed skills, according to a survey of CEOs...
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- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery...
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by HBS News
- 03 Nov 2011
- What Do You Think?
The Ultimate Question in Management
served?" (from David Witt), "What are you doing to enhance (your) company's, (your) team's, (your) organization's development"? (constructed from comments by Marlis Krichewsky), and "What are you doing for...
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by James Heskett
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
Strategy, published by Oxford University Press. Contributors to the book include Harvard Business School's Clayton M. Christensen, Walter Kuemmerle, and Thomas R. Eisenmann, as well as nine other scholars....
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by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
book, Who Killed Health Care? We asked Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School, to discuss her latest work and her more than 30 years of research in the health care...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?
its culture as an amalgam of “freedom and responsibility.” By freedom, the company doesn’t mean a free-for-all. Yes, workers have the freedom to express opposing viewpoints, and they also have wide leeway with their vacation and travel...
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