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- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
Kanter, an authority on organizational change who advises major corporations and governments on these very issues, lays out a blueprint to help readers get a handle on work, and life, in an increasingly connected world. Here, in the first... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
no blueprint to tell you in detail what to do, you must work artfully. Forging ahead without detailed specifications to guide you obviously... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
higher bonus." By contrast, in the traditional mode, where the salon employs the stylists, the competitive pressure is absent, so the salon would have to pay a higher bonus in order to motivate them View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
regarding the advancement of next-generation nuclear power systems. "The one thing that is holding us back is the NRC," he says. At the 21-minute mark, Lassiter reiterates the urgent need to present an... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
proteins at work in the business of life. "The book of life" that made dramatic headlines last year—and was really a first draft of the human genome sequence—is destined to change and challenge... View Details
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
get money. If they can't get money, they lay off people and cancel projects. Now imagine you are a postdoc in a lab and are working on a project to use human embryonic stem cells View Details
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
Association board in two months. Trouble was, Grinna lacked a technical background. In class discussion, students consider whether Grinna should hire local programmers or a CTO to do the work; outsource the View Details
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
lot gets done at the university, and it may be a safer place to be, at least for the next few years.” Yet the sunny period following a scandal doesn’t necessarily last; five years later, the chance of another incident bounces right View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
Business School. “They need to cut expenses to the bone to ride out this crisis.” Stanton worked with HBS colleagues Michael Luca and Zoe Cullen;... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
trouble, too?" Giddings asked. In a Q&A after Giddings' talk, a black participant acknowledged her personal struggle with the race/gender divide. "I still feel I have to choose between working for white... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
to wait for payment for the work they had performed. With small businesses responsible for nearly $100 billion in contracts with the federal government, our goal was to get... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
side) competing with a lack of an industrial policy (on the US side). Going all the way back to the mid-1980s, the Chinese government has been mapping a pathway for the country View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
sell the house, is considering abandoning it, and has cut back on maintenance, which depresses the value further. If a few houses on a block are underwater, the blight will depress the values even of well-kept homes. Accepting this new... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
copied Japanese management techniques. Given the influence of Japan, our book aims to set the record straight on what did and did not work there. The rest of the world should not be emulating policies that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
among scientists that was unprecedented in human genetics research. A professor of genetics and director of Harvard Medical School's Lipper Center for Computational Genetics, Church noted that his own computer experience dates back View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
dairy worker on a rail stop in western Kansas, Eisenhower felt passionate about military history and football from a young age. He was determined to escape his father’s line of work in the local creamery and... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A. Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What she didn't find, however, was View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
The development of corporate integrated reporting (IR) standards has the promise to be one of the great business innovations of the 21st century, and could be pivotal in restoring public trust in business institutions, Harvard Business... View Details
- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
DIFFERENTIATOR FOR AMAZON BECAUSE MOST OF THEIR COMPETITORS WON'T BE ABLE TO OFFER THEM" Even if Amazon isn't able to ultimately convert new or occasional visitors into full-time Prime subscribers, the... View Details
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
strain. They had a robust configuration that enabled new purposes, new software deployments, and new coordinated routines across teams. The best can use this as an opportunity to experiment and learn where technology can deliver service... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost