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- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
still a junior faculty member, focused on making tenure and writing a second book. That’s the year she got a call from the law firm Leigh Day, which was looking to sue the British government for reparations on behalf of the Kikuyu... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
“She also offered medical advice, delivery services, and prescription compounding—services not offered by department stores,” writes Sawyer. “Gleason also cultivated a reputation for providing indigent community members with medical... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
increases," write the authors of How to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business, published in the Winter 2013 issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review. “Ineffective opportunity management eventually leads to loss of money,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
other variables would be deemed inappropriate, because the same theory of taxation implies that we ought to tax them as well. Q: To what extent are you thinking about and researching tax policy for businesses? A: I am currently writing an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
Business Review. With a long history of writing and editing on corporate strategy, the new economy, and trends in the workplace, he has been an advisor to Bain & Company and to other companies and individuals. Kiechel spent most of... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
Quarterly Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia By: Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Organizations today can use both crowds and experts to produce... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
Because these social networks are a unique way of broadly communicating real-time messages to the audiences they want to reach. They can write a message anywhere, anytime, and share it with interested parties without any public relations... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. Many dismiss marketing as manipulative,... View Details
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
among the world's largest private companies. It represents hundreds of athletes and other celebrities, and reportedly is commercially involved in an average of 10 major sports and cultural events around the world every day. Q: What led you to View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
the people who do occasionally die or get injured, they definitely know—or their state does.” While not all AI ethics debates carry stakes as high as those related to AVs, many raise important social questions. In the world of content, for instance, some laud AI’s... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
thinker as she tracks leads and confronts complex mysteries across 25 books. I’m glad that John Lescroart is still writing about lawyer Dismas Hardy and police inspector Abe Glitzky (half-Black, half-Jewish) and has added Diz’s daughter... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
Q: You write a lot about corporate culture in companies such as Zappos. Why is culture so important? A: Morriss: A culture exists to influence how people think, so their discretionary behavior will be consistent with the values of the... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
times," he observes. Richard C. Whiteley (MBA '68), a management consultant and author who is writing a book titled "ReSpiriting Work," notes, "Another important factor is the aging of the American population. The baby... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
unique two-sided innovation platform consisting of a global community of over 225,000 developers who compete to write software modules for its over 40 clients. Provides details of a unique innovation platform where complex software is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
funds, Pozen writes with authority and unusual clarity about complex issues in Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System (John Wiley & Sons). Roger Thompson: How does the government figure out which financial institutions... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
are you working on now? A: I'm continuing my broader research efforts to understand how the design of knowledge-intensive work affects teamwork, collaboration innovation, and ultimately performance. For example, I'm writing an empirical... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
approach has extracted its lessons for today’s negotiators. We have extensively interviewed Henry Kissinger about his most difficult negotiations. We studied his writings and those of many others who have analyzed these episodes. This has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
accounting contributions of historical writings such as the Smritis and the Arthashatra. We also discuss the accounting system used by the East India Company. Next we provide an overview of contemporary Indian accounting systems... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
entitled We Shall Not Surrender this Television Station. As Tom Wolfe says, who needs fiction with reality like this! Writing and teaching a case with material like this is a real pleasure. Q: Can you identify the key miscalculations made... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
The ills of the U.S. healthcare system are well chronicled—soaring costs, low customer satisfaction, increasing problems with quality, and restricted coverage lead the list. But do we really understand the underlying issues well enough to View Details