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- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
“You’ve been working on this research your whole life and are convinced that it’s awesome. Then you decide to start a company, and while figuring it all out, you discover that it’s not the right technology... View Details
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
layoffs lead to mistakes that undermine companies’ corporate goals. Doing a layoff for the right reason is not just smart strategically, it’s smart organizationally, since employees are more likely to stay... View Details
- 02 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents
the US withdrew this ill-fated measure in 2003 after the World Trade Organization authorized the largest penalty sanctions ever against a member state, and after the European Union threatened retaliation. Back then, there was ample... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
on the other hand, in a book Free to Choose, advocated a minimalist role for government, relying instead on lower tax rates to provide the wherewithal for Americans to decide... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
of any organization." Carol Holding associated brand value with sustainability: "As brand value will soon be included in a company's valuation ... we can more than ever monetize sustainable behavior." Others see the market View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
and execute truly creative solutions. Perhaps the traditional image of the creative genius working alone to create great breakthroughs is not so accurate after all. To shatter... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
asserted, "more highly skilled individuals will have to work even harder to make sense of all the material now available to them. And even... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 19 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book
incompatible with other societal priorities. I think of integrated reporting as one of these progressive ideas and efforts that can begin to restore society's trust. If we start in various ways reporting View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
When large public companies perform poorly, do the CEOs running them share the financial pain? That question, according to HBS associate professor Brian Hall, is not answered by looking at their salary and bonus but rather by a careful... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era
Entrepreneurs and managers who can't adapt to the fast pace of change in the world—"a world that should be on Prozac"—are likely to miss out on opportunities in the years View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
huge impact on the economy of Peru, where so many people work in the industry. If you want to have that kind of impact, it's not enough for people to admire and appreciate what... View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
government needs to reach an agreement with creditors as soon as possible. Every day that goes by, it is getting closer to going back to the... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
consensus needs to be reached concerning what it means to be ethical in business. Academics should work with business leaders, community leaders, labor groups,... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
"Stores no longer have the soul of the past and reflect a chain of stores vs. the warm feeling of a neighborhood store." Starbucks tried to add value through innovation, offering wi-fi service and creating and selling its own... View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
name of tracking terrorists that we begin to take it for granted as consumers? In fact, will we one day look back on September 11 as a point in time when data warehousers were able View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
holders for your stock because they do not trade much. Getting back to Japan, the stock splits can be thought of a form of float manipulation. By limiting the number of shares on the market, and making it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
profitability? When several of us first began researching these relationships, findings such as these were news. Today we take them for granted. Fred Reichheld, among others, has fashioned a career as a consultant around his work on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
consideration a company's political contributions, advocacy work and engagement with nongovernmental organizations. To facilitate the subjective task of ranking these characteristics, ratings agencies could... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
may actually hurt you, and if you can't respond adequately on your own, you can put a spanner in the works by forcing regulators in your industry to institute antitrust proceedings. For example, among... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
given the length of the economic recovery from the depths of 2008. But are several basic forces at work that put the notion of an imminent recession to rest? In the early 1960s, in a class on business... View Details