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- 20 May 2022
- Blog Post
Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research
where we cover all sorts of topics from experimental roadmaps needed to prove out the tough tech concepts we work with, how to tell your sustainability story while fundraising, how to incorporate DEI principles while growing a company,... View Details
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
company website. "It's sort of a 'whistle while you work' philosophy, and we not only have a heck of a good time with it, we work better because of it." Why rituals are important Rituals have two key traits: They involve a repeated... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
going to be really fun. So there is a lot of discussion about tolerance for failure, experimenting, collaboration, and all sorts of other really pleasant things. But, there is a harsh reality of innovative cultures. They are not much fun.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
"visibility" of your trading partners' performance, thereby reducing risk. Broaden cooperation. Supply chain and risk managers regularly work with colleagues in purchasing, logistics, traffic, and other departments. But sorting... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
widespread and so toxic in Enron." Salter, a specialist in corporate strategy and corporate governance who is also writing a book on Enron, said he is trying to operate as a sort of forensic analyst. Forensic scientists usually fill... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?
Kapil Kumar Sopory raised a caution: "The idea of developing a conscious culture with shared values that reflect the higher purpose is very laudable, but it needs a lot of close attention to what sort of high values are to be focused on "... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
week. “We don’t have a traditional sort of home-and-away structure,” says Williams, noting the potential issues posed by border crossings and requisite visa requirements. And even if travel wasn’t a logistical hurdle, most African... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
of an airliner. Hundreds of hours may go into gathering and analyzing data to sort out exactly what happened and what can be learned. Compare this kind of analysis to what takes place in most organizations after a failure. As noted above,... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
capitalists like Warren Buffett, a hero to many of us, support the Democratic Party. (Warren did two fundraisers for Hillary, two for Barack, one for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and, I am ever so pleased to say, one for the DNC.) How are your... View Details
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
sorting all these clothes." But with those additional inventory risks and associated expenses come greater control and higher absolute dollar margins. Growth is much easier and more capital efficient, however, under the MSP model. "eBay... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
that's what it takes to make something truly new. Miles had reached the pinnacle by playing and innovating in the bebop tradition. But in Kind of Blue he walked away from all that, in the direction of a very different sort of music called... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
to sort of leverage this subtle change in the founding story over time,” he says. When startups are pivoting to adapt their product or service, they need to be aware of how they frame those changes for external stakeholders and their... View Details
- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
resources to developing open source products. That sort of behavior is initially puzzling to economists because the firm is participating in the development of something that is going to be given away for free. Once you begin studying... View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
And that's, I think, what gave folks confidence that it could be done in their own restaurants. Morrell: As you're putting together strategy for this, what was the hardest challenge that you had to sort of work through? Cunningham: Well,... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
and work with my team to help where we can. I have tried to stay motivated and to be thankful, even when things did not look so bright. I must confess that last year I felt all sort of emotions: I was scared, nervous, worried and even... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
Clay Christensen has this idea that people hire products to do a job. It's that exact sort of thing. You don't need to add features that really aren't delivering on the job that consumers are hiring the product to do. So relative... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
got made.” "By seeking out and valuing perspectives grounded in employee’s different experiences, you can deepen engagement." Not only does this sort of inclusion in name only demoralize employees, but it also deprives teams of the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
the typewriter, keeping thirty short stories at a time out for consideration and ignoring hundreds of rejections. He was the purest sort of entrepreneur, fashioning something out of nothing more substantial than a typewriter, paper, and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
association president Bif Browning. “And that’s something we’ve never seen.” Boosters like Browning hope their partnership with Dlodlo will provide a model for equitable, community-driven redevelopment elsewhere. And they see her efforts spurring a local renaissance of... View Details