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  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

foreign direct investment and for sustainable economic growth? These questions and more are explored in a forthcoming business case coauthored by Alfaro along with HBS professor Rafael M. Di Tella, Executive Director of the HBS Europe... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

and gain a broad understanding of the business, especially as it operates globally. In separate interviews, Sasser and Narayandas discussed talent identification, leadership in action, and what PLD does to help hundreds of executives grow. "Leadership View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

With many companies battered by the economy, commitment from leaders and employees might seem like increasingly precious resources. Yet commitment and performance are essential elements of any successful firm no matter the health of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Martha Lagace, he discusses what companies should bear in mind going forward.Lagace: People often equate globalization with the idea that globally standardized products are displacing local ones. In... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

say to them? Rangan, head of the HBS faculty marketing unit, has been wrestling with the limits of social marketing for a decade. McCaffrey was so impressed by a talk Rangan gave several years ago on "marketing to the poorest... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

work at NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation that launches contests for NASA and the federal government at scale. NASA has completed over 350 crowdsourcing projects, many with the assistance of our lab. About the Author View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 24 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

may not be the same, he said. Satisfaction can turn into pride and pride into hubris. "This is fundamentally the story of every Greek tragedy that exists." What Is Success? Stevenson and Nash believe success is a state of being. It's also a unique combination... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

deserve. Martha Lagace is writer based in the Boston area.. Image credit: andresr - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Book Excerpt A Platform... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services
  • 18 Jan 2021
  • Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

Author Martha Lagace is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: damircudic] Click to watch. Book Excerpt Chapter 1: Problems as Opportunities By Mitchell Weiss There is a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 04 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

Are auditors becoming too big to fail? For over a decade, there have been articles and op-eds in the popular and business press arguing that the auditing industry, currently dominated by Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 16 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

survey done on nonprofit leaders, managers often cited a preference for growth by branching, i.e., replicating the organization from one site to another and maintaining central control and ownership of the new units. What Wei-Skillern and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

Buyers and sellers in mature industrial markets can turn single transactions into long-term beneficial relationships by a deeper understanding of the complex connection between the two, says Harvard Business School professor Narakesari... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors

behind Marketing Metaphoria and how insights about deep metaphors can improve brand success. Martha Lagace: What are deep metaphors? Gerald Zaltman and Lindsay Zaltman: Deep metaphors are basic frames or orientations we have toward the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products
  • 26 Jun 2000
  • Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

business: customers, products, value propositions, the capabilities and advantages any player brings that will allow the plans to meet success. And while businesses have always used a "platform" of technology of one kind or another to deliver products and services, the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 25 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

professionals may be confronted with a sense of psychological impasse and how they can free themselves. Martha Lagace: What sorts of thoughts, feelings, and images do people experience when they face an impasse? Timothy Butler: First,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career

are not so different from organizational teams in other fields of life, including business. And watching the career moves of football stars may shed light on how you, too, can plan your next step. That's the message of new research by HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Sports
  • 22 Jul 2019
  • Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

revenue, which is also difficult for a public company to do. About the Author Martha Lagace is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: metamorworks] Book Excerpt Launch: Solve the “Chicken-or- Egg”... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Unconscious Executive

research at HBS, in close collaboration with Harvard Medical School. In addition to researching sleep, creativity, and decision making, he studies influence, persuasion, voice and facial categorization, and communication. Martha Lagace:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

articulate in his or her work context a moral gray zone," says Anteby. What does your office do to sustain one? Martha Lagace: How prevalent are gray zones? Michel Anteby: Very prevalent, but not all gray zones are moral. Following... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism

nations must choose their own paths, for better or worse. He later expanded on his ideas in the following interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. As a student at Cornell, Abdelal said, he became fascinated View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace