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- 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 toss in another: single-issue...
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- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
leaders should understand that an employee’s input can sometimes make the difference between failure and success in a task or project — and managers can and should encourage employees to candidly voice their opinions to bolster both the...
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- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
counterintuitive driver: the fact that in the US, pharmaceutical companies subsidize the purchase of their drugs. Medicare, the government insurer for elderly or disabled people in the US, encourages patients who can’t afford their drug...
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- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
encourages people to take more risks when they decide to post. So the impression from those posts can linger in the mind of an observer, say, a colleague or employer, and “come back to haunt,” according to new research published in a...
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by Rachel Layne
- 12 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing of a President
likely voters. He built a coalition that energized young, first-time voters and registered thousands of previous non-voters. His organization encouraged early voting by Democrats to build well-publicized poll leads and to reduce the...
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by John Quelch
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
what it calls "boundaryless" behaviors among its executives, encouraging them to exchange ideas with each other and, when beneficial to the company, with managers outside GE as well. In short, it is becoming more and more...
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by James Heskett
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
and encourages less successful performers "to improve or wither." The need for change shouldn't obscure the fact that nonprofits have long played an important role in American society, Grossman concludes. "As the legislative, executive,...
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by James E. Aisner
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
spending your time on disruptive innovations!" M. P. Singh, a manager in the public sector, suggests, "Expecting corporate culture to tolerate or encourage radical change or innovation is like expecting a country to View Details
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by James Heskett
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
the opposite approach. It wants to be known specifically for its hair products, which are sold through 1,800 salons. Koehn encouraged panelists to share their fondest strategic wishes—as well as their worst fears. Tahari said that her...
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- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
encourage more aggressive write-offs of so-called non-performing assets, such as retail stores still in operation but performing below a certain level, as well as the creation of reserves against earnings that are much more accurate and...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
and see how that can be reformed to take advantage of new opportunities. Pacesetters may reorganize frequently, she said, because "turf is the enemy of change." In phase three, leaders are ready to respond and change, but change beyond the merely cosmetic....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
Chinese national, and deliver it to him in person. Recalls Klump, "I had achieved success, was enjoying rapid promotions, and worked well with my manager. When it came time for him to receive feedback, he encouraged direct...
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by Garry Emmons
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
The real danger from stereotyping In my classes at Harvard Business School (HBS) many executives express concerns about experiencing these biases in their workplaces. However, we have learned through our executive leadership classes, which put people in diverse groups...
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by Bill George
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
extremely hard to regulate and to be a really, really good father. "Governments should encourage people to take chances and not hit them over the head with a hammer if they make a mistake." The salient point, he said, is neither...
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by Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
begin to imagine. In manufacturing, US labor productivity more than quadrupled between 1950 and 2000 because the price of labor encouraged firms to become really efficient at using it. My guess is that we will be very pleasantly surprised...
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- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
scalability: providing an ancillary service to sellers to reduce their fixed costs. In our model, a platform can choose whether and when to provide this service to sellers. When the platform provides the service, it encourages the entry...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
exit, output, and R&D. Taxing the continued operation of incumbents can lead to sizable gains (of the order of 1.4% improvement in welfare) by encouraging exit of less productive firms and freeing up skilled labor to be used for...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
the co-founders and co-CEOs of salaUno, Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, were encouraged by the results of their fledgling start-up. salaUno was founded as a for-profit enterprise in order to have the capital needed for rapid growth...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
"black box", knowing that the outcome will ultimately be evaluated but with little ongoing feedback to know how it's coming along. Team-level process change isn't just a leadership challenge. It is the responsibility of all members to View Details
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a...
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