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- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
outcomes (through, for example, market-mediated trading systems, so-called "decision markets," for predicting the outcomes of things such as presidential elections and even potential success in war). Taken as a body, it may be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
that potential investors pay special attention to the career histories of all involved. Careers Count So what career factors gave biotech a boost? Higgins found three specific advantages in chief executive officers who led a successful... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
"disruptive technologies," thus becoming sitting ducks for smaller, more innovative competitors. One potential antidote that he recommends is for larger firms to create or partner with organizations that can literally put... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week
potentially game-changing; and Carmichael Roberts, partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, discussed the firm’s mission of aggregating and funding ideas and companies to scale climate solutions. In closing, Tufano urged attendees to... View Details
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors
is economically unviable, and it would require a lot of process innovation to make financial sense and for them to scale it. Despite the potential here, Mr. Acharya doesn’t “see it happening in the next 20 years”. However, regulation... View Details
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Creating Brand Value - Course Catalog
managing brands to achieve their full value potential has never been more difficult. Consumers are increasingly diverse, skeptical of marketing, and empowered by digital technologies that easily connect them to others who share their... View Details
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
Director Eileen Chang, past fellowship recipients, and donors focused on the impact and meaning of the fellowship. In total, 108 alumni and potential donors participated. “The many voices in this discussion represented powerful messages... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
better than they do. You have to be an absolute insider.” Open Mineral’s platform tries to correct this information asymmetry: The dashboard shows miners how many potential buyers might want their concentrate, and shows smelters what... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
the short list of potential character flaws.”She also recommended using a technique called values profiling in hiring imposters. In hiring, should we give self-confidence a greater weight than humility? What do you think? Original Article... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
and capacity utilization is high. But we suspect that a third and potentially quite strong effect is the uncertainty that is created by government involvement. Q: These findings present something of a dilemma for public policymakers who... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
Ferri, on leave as a visiting assistant professor of accounting at NYU's Stern School of Business, sees a number of avenues for future research on executive compensation, including its influence on risk-taking and the effects of regulation and disclosure regimes on... View Details
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
the time, I bet he would have spent significant time on the online underground." Fernando Polo dismissed the potential pitfalls of bias caused by listening only to outspoken users of the Internet by saying, "Excuses such as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
David Motley (MBA 1988) grew up in Lincoln-Larimer, a struggling neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. He remembers the soot on the snow in the cold winters of the 1960s. And if he looked south, toward the Monongahela River, he could see the steel mills that were its... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
to think that bitcoin can disrupt not only major companies like payment processors (more than $400 billion in market cap), remittances companies and financial software providers, but also other non currency–related industries like ticketing, title companies, and many... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
because I don’t quite understand if there’s even a right path to take. It could potentially be the last day of my life if things go very wrong.” JUNE 16 “While we cannot solve systemic racism, we can learn from the death of Mr. Floyd and... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
working to eliminate systemic racism. “My dad and my brothers and I, we feel so strongly about the potential and power of this fund,” Josh Kraft, one of Robert Kraft’s four sons, told the Boston Globe. “It starts at the top with great... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
people likely contracted the virus several days (and up to two weeks) before showing symptoms and, thus, would have been in contact with other people (solid line in Figure 1), unknowingly spreading the virus. Quarantining an infected person after reactive testing only... View Details
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
government as their partner because government has the potential to provide scale and permanence. But the problem is that you also need efficacy and efficiency, and the constancy of both. And for many reasons the public sector is not very... View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
addition, a growing literature has begun to highlight the potential importance of overconfidence in driving entrepreneurial outcomes. Such a mechanism may appear at face value to work like a lower level of risk aversion, but there are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
performing functions traditionally relegated to government. Yet these potential cost efficiencies from market competition are often offset by poor enforcement quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace