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- 06 Aug 2014
- What Do You Think?
What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?
Summing Up Was Warren Bennis's Optimism Regarding the Future of Leadership Warranted? In a recent obituary for Warren Bennis in the New York Times, former executive and HBS Professor Bill George was quoted...
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- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
Adherence to Global Labor Standards and published in the journal Regulation & Governance, was authored by Toffel, UC Hastings Law Professor Jodi L. Short, and former HBS research associate Melissa...
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by Michael Blanding
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
The financial field may be permanently changed by the explosive ups and downs of the tech sector, but old standards of quality and planning will still make or break new businesses, View Details
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by Carrie Levine
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
nuanced. This reflected what DDB identified as “a huge new challenge for CEO’s” and a complicated one, according to Rob Jones. But only three respondents addressed the question of limits on the practice. More about that below. Ernie...
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by James Heskett
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
of a resurgence: HBS Professor Emeritus Michael Beer, in a new book based on a large base of evidence drawn from consulting experience, concludes that “when employees can’t speak truth to power they lose...
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by James Heskett
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
Community training helps fight Ebola A new case study about Last Mile Health by HBS Senior Lecturer Brian L. Trelstad and V. Kasturi Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of...
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- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
detailed in Cohen’s new working paper, The Impact of Forced Migration on Modern Cities: Evidence from 1930s Crop Failures, co-written by HBS finance professor Christopher J....
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat
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by Paul Novosad & Eric Werker
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
lecturer in the School's new Program in Agriculture and Business, headed by Davis. In the winter of 1955, Goldberg taught the first HBS course in agribusiness—a word that he...
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- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
interpretations or recognitions that are new to each of them, thereby helping them recognize problems that are genuinely new. We also show that when communication is too intense, its beneficial aspects give way to the pathologies of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
Clinic had been consistently ranked No. 1 by US News & World Report for heart surgery survival rates, her father opted to go to the No. 2 ranked Mayo Clinic. The reason for his choice: doctors at the...
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- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
key is to be ruthlessly realistic with oneself. As I hope the book makes clear, this is one of the greatest challenges for any CEO. Q: The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS professor Clayton Christensen illustrated...
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- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
Held on the HBS campus in late February, the conference on "Gender and Work: Challenging Conventional Wisdom" brought together scholars and practitioners for a thoughtful, forward-looking discussion about gender in...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
Ethan Rouen: I wrote this paper for two reasons. First, one of my advisers (former HBS professor) Fabrizio Ferri made me promise I’d write about my experience for future job seekers, and I couldn’t say no to him because he had spent so...
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- 01 Aug 2019
- What Do You Think?
Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?
30-session course relying largely on cases can cost more than half a million dollars in materials. Of course, cases can be used over and over. But that’s not the rule. In fact, a large proportion of all cases are taught only once, usually View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
that total income fell into the range covered by the new rule). Long working hours take their toll on family lives of both men and women, according to a study of professionals of both sexes. Women who try to...
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- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
convinced Lakhani to drop his engineering aspirations and become a scholar of innovation. Lakhani has devoted much of his research at HBS exploring how communities and contests can be designed to achieve innovative outcomes. Last year, he...
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by Dina Gerdeman
Tarun Khanna
Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”
Summing Up Respondents to my column about the tenets of new strategic marketing by and large projected the view that new strategic marketing, as propounded View Details
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by James Heskett
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
spirituality in business. Can Spirituality Drive Success? Should It? In a session exploring how spirituality can lead to business success, panelist Tony Schwartz confessed to one distinction: he was perhaps the only person in the world who was "driven to the...
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