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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
business through informal personal networks, Advanced Technology, for example, has established dialogue groups as its core tactic for achieving diversity. These groups give employees a forum in which to... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
The recent collapse of the eight-story Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh was a red alert for every company that has embraced the "virtual organization" model and the outsourcing that goes with it. The lure of the model is obvious. Virtual corporations... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
outcomes salient (Burns & Corpus, 2004), the bias did not emerge when the presentation did not draw attention to recent outcomes. Fixing Health Care on the Front Lines Author:Richard M.J. Bohmer Publication:Harvard Business Review 88,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
almost universally employed in the US and increasingly elsewhere, even though the forms it takes ebb and flow. But now questions are being raised about whether pay for performance at its core is fatally flawed or at least misused. Mihir... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
the company's reporting as useful as possible to all stakeholders.” It is certainly true that a company can be clearly committed to sustainability without producing One Report. Ricoh is a good example of this. Sustainability is at the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
Tenbrunsel, and Max Bazerman Abstract—The business scandals in the past several decades led to the rising importance of ethics as a topic central to management scholarship. Behavioral scientists in particular were attracted to the topic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
prosper through the ceaseless gales of creative destruction that lie at the heart of capitalism, you must figure out how to institutionalize its core capabilities. You must learn, as Howard Schultz once said, that successful View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
internet startups, two Stanford Graduate School of Business professors, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, wrote an influential book about “successful habits of visionary companies.” In it, they advanced their theories based on an extensive... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
Editor's note: Now 10 years old, Facebook's growth is starting to slow. That's one reason it purchased What'sApp last month in a jaw-dropping deal valued at $19 billion. What might the next decade be like? Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/311083-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 414-043 United Rentals (A) In the spring of 2008, the recession had decimated the company's core business, construction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
PublicationsThe Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators Authors:Jeffrey H. Dyer, Hal B. Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract Some people are just natural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
into the business to the day the product departs the shipping dock. The researchers encouraged businesses to think of that order as the actual customer, and watched as they routed that person here and there... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
an important driver of solo deal outcomes. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2159229 September 2014 Multidisciplinary Insights from New AIB Fellows Business History and the Impact of MNEs on Host... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
deftly: “How to most effectively communicate with all employees remotely and show empathy, while running around with [my] hair on fire trying to save the current business while at the same time trying to shape the future of the company in... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll... View Details
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
issues that are at the core of business strategy, especially in certain industries like media, entertainment, and healthcare. Research and learning never stop. This is such an exciting field with relatively... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-005.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAmerican Cancer Society: Access to Care Harvard Business School Case 109-015 CEO John Seffrin decides to radically change the strategy of the American Cancer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
funds. Second, XTV's successes—such as Document Sciences and Documentum—were concentrated in industries closely related to the corporate parent's core line of business (document processing). This suggests... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
entrepreneurial firms explicitly devoted to making a profitable business out of conserving and returning valuable resources to productive use, while maintaining public sanitation and in many cases offering nascent environmental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne