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- 03 May 2021
- What Do You Think?
Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?
(Image credit: iStockphoto/adamkaz) CEO activism entered a new chapter with the decision by more than 200 leaders of large corporations last month to publicly declare their support for voting rights for...
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by James Heskett
- 17 Dec 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
An Outside-Inside Evolution in Gender and Professional Work
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a...
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Elie Ofek
Elie Ofek is a Professor in the Marketing unit at the Harvard Business School. Professor Ofek's research focuses on new product strategies in technology-driven business environments as well as in consumer-oriented companies in general. He explores interactions... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
notoriously slow technology adoption and rigid regulations. These were among the issues addressed in "Beyond Chicken and Egg–Strategic Challenges for Digital Marketplaces," one of eight panel discussions at the Digital Transformation Summit, which took place April 12...
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- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
almost always created by entrepreneurs and technologists in response to a shortage of workers or in response to a lack of productivity in the current work processes. However, automation also creates new...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
commercial activities? And if so, how? Addressing this question is crucial at a time like now, when an increasing number of organizations engage in hybrid organizing.” Battilana pursues that big question in a new paper, Harnessing...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Sep 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment
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by Laura Alfaro & Andrew Charlton
- 24 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchanges
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
Four European entrepreneurs joined HBS Professors Howard Stevenson and Walter Kuemmerle to explore these questions in the Global Alumni Conference breakout session "Entrepreneurship in Europe." Stevenson and Kuemmerle set the...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
Harvard Business School professor Pankaj Ghemawat has long argued that the best international strategy also includes recognition of differences in local markets. In the December 2005 issue of Harvard Business Review, Ghemawat highlights opportunities to improve...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 23 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Status: When and Why It Matters
most from status. For everyone after that, status differences do not matter nearly as much, if at all," Malter says. His paper on the grand cru classification has been conditionally accepted by a major academic journal. But Malter...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
production of so-called "cheap oil," the most easily accessible of the world's carbon energy resources. These events are concurrent with new demands for oil, especially by the rapidly-expanding...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
refusal to agree to a new pact. But a more fiscally-integrated and responsible Europe should regain competitiveness on a global scale and find growth again. Jean Monnet, one of the founding fathers of the EU, once observed that Europe...
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by Dante Roscini
- 04 Dec 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
are experts at diagnosing and solving a variety of issues for their clients, are struggling to apply their own management principles internally.” To regain equilibrium, over the past two years, some major consulting firms have meaningfully slowed recruiting and have...
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- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,...
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by Rachel Layne
- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
government requests to extract data from iPhones.” Apple’s product security team has also undergone changes. Again, according to the same report, the team was broken up last year and the privacy group began reporting to a new manager....
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- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
seeking asylum who bring different skills and behaviors than immigrants. Germany’s problems, opportunities, and solutions are so different from those of the US, that its “model” for handling new arrivals has limited application. That’s...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
development for the sectors where jobs are being created.” Dolembo suggested a multi-faceted response: “Fund student loans, stop punishing those who get the training at community colleges and share in the investment for these poor kids who went broke training for this...
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