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12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

and what has stayed the same. It will present an analysis and social commentary on the access to business power in the country. Is it open to all? How has it been achieved? How have barriers been overcome?... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

work together to create all aspects of the urban environment. Also necessary are new systems and processes for helping cities operate efficiently and effectively, including the use of new information and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

company? A: Running a four-drive company is like riding a unicycle-it takes a lot of work to maintain the balance among these four drives. The primary threat to a perfect... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

market—they must demonstrate to an independent panel from the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) that a new product works better than existing options for an identifiable group of... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

for young people to start smoking tobacco cigarettes, or even lure ex-smokers back to the habit. This has created a dilemma for health regulators, says Quelch, interviewed... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy

from Perylon Hall on the fairgrounds to the IBM exhibit at the Business Systems Building, where a precursor of a form of e-mail was displayed: Not only technology but art had a place in IBM Day. The company had commissioned the IBM... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

concerns occur whenever employees take into account the impact of their current actions on their future career. In essence, whenever the internal and/or external labor market observes a performance measure that helps revise its beliefs about an employee's ability, the... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

30 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Harvard and HBS: The Next 100 Years

"build cathedrals." This entails educating leaders who make a difference not just in the world, but for the world. As the institution looks ahead to the next century, there are key areas where new View Details

Keywords: Education

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

performance to improve, only to be bitterly disappointed. For some reason, the right things still don't happen. Why is change so hard? First of all, most people are reluctant View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

The Creativity Maze

love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me." And Michael Jordan, perhaps the most creative basketball player ever, had a "love of the game" clause inserted... View Details

Keywords: by Teresa Amabile

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

charity work. For businesspeople already working to tackle food insecurity and promote healthy, sustainable food, COVID-19 is a double-edged sword: a disruption of their current efforts and a potential... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

04 Feb 2015
What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

Summing Up How Transferable is the Google "School of Management"? Responses to this month's column suggest a great deal of respect for what Google's management has been able to achieve, both in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

08 Aug 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance

climate-controlled vaults. Here's why. Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World Mobile money agents in the developing world face a key inventory management challenge: How much cash and e-float should be held to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

cancer and AIDS. Those working in the biotech trenches, however, point out that the real work has only just begun. Dr. Robert Tepper, chief scientific officer for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., put it... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

these discussions with the board, does have these discussions with the board. And if they're not working on it, they should be working on it." Another director asserted that the board should be even more... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

turn, winning breeds greater confidence and raises the company to an even higher level. Building organizational confidence, especially in turnaround situations where organizations have been on losing streaks, is the View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

it a fad that amounts to little more than sensitivity training in New Age clothing, or does it reflect something more profound about the way we are beginning to conceive of and relate View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

setting priorities for free time, to make sure important personal relationships and beloved activities don’t slip through the cracks. "It’s hard to do, because jobs are infringing," he said. Butler... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

overthrow the product division structure. Would-be regionalists have to work within it. Jan Oosterveld, who served as CEO of Asia Pacific from 2003 to 2004—a position created... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Understanding the Process of Innovation

Michael Collins is looking to diversify. His company, Big Idea Group, currently produces only children's toys, but he thinks his process for discovering, refining, and bringing ideas to market can View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gray

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