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- 02 Aug 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?
catalyze capabilities design the right set of experiences orchestrate company resources and champion customers within the organization ... once that transformation is complete and the company has indeed become a premier experience stager,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
Tesco shops were replacing independent businesses. "What the politicians did not anticipate was that these large supermarket chains were going to come in anyway, regardless of regulations," Sadun says. "They had reached a scale and a View Details
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
on next? A: We are working on a book on what CEOs need to know about marketing and how they can leverage marketing capabilities for competitive advantage. We welcome input from CEOs on whether they think marketing is delivering or is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
more specific activities in which there is a significant two-way value exchange. The organizations' core capabilities begin to be deployed and the partnership is more important to each other's missions and strategies. It is no longer... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
to ask themselves what their needs really are, he said, as well as whether the company has a solid economic model and has people capable of formulating good strategy and seizing opportunities that present themselves. But most importantly,... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212006-PDF-ENG IBM China Development Lab Shanghai: Capability by Design Willy Shih, Kamen Bliznashki, and Fan ZhaoHarvard Business School Case 611-055 When IBM shifted from a traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
lambasts carmakers that say their AVs will prioritize passengers’ lives over pedestrians, but research shows most customers will not step inside truly egalitarian vehicles. Marketing hype spurs adoption, a necessary step for training AI systems, but customers who... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
Are candor, humility, and trust making a comeback among leadership concepts? If so, what will the impact be on leaders and their organizations? What do you think? References: Michael Beer, Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
Creating an ethics chatbot requires an investment of resources and technical capabilities that is likely to be beyond most firms’ capabilities. However, Soltes’ lab at Harvard Business School was able to create a functioning ethics... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
organizations?" Others saw limited potential in the concept. As Edward Hare put it, "There are some people capable of managing themselves in a larger organization but many who can't This strikes me as another of those 'ideas'... View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
Summing Up Fixing the Way We Work There is a lot wrong with the way we work, but very little of this is due to new networking capabilities or communications technology. Neither can we blame increasing globalization and the demands of... View Details
- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
the firms' innovative capabilities and client relationships so that it was not obvious to the interviewees that the researchers were focusing on trust. The results were striking. Affective trust, that from the heart, in overseas partners... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
lower-cost venues of care more capable that health care becomes affordable, not by expecting large hospitals to charge less. Q: Could you give an example of a technological innovation that you think will have great impact? A: The... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
has found that companies adopt one of three different strategies: Launch and see. The company launches a variety of products, and then measures market reaction to each, relying on the selective capability of consumers to determine which... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
studies helps an MBA candidate gain the capability to thin slice? Or is the typical business decision so much more complicated and less repetitive than, say, evaluating the authenticity of a rare object, that a manager never gains the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
the capabilities they need. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52603 September 2017 Current History China Gambles on Modernizing Through Urbanization By: Looney, Kristen, and Meg Rithmire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven on one side by the proliferation of a new technological, cultural, and economic landscape commonly referred to as “digital disruption” and on the other by a widening gap between the skills and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
renewal. This change process involves disciplined conversations, actions, and associated learning by the senior team, diffusing these learning capabilities to the extended senior leadership team and, over time, to the larger leadership... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
case permits the exploration of how and when companies in developing countries can leverage their domestic markets to build capabilities to serve global customers, by using their home market as a base for learning. The case is also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
staffing the facility and then discusses the ongoing operational and financial challenges of operating a heart center in Africa. Can this model be sustained? Can Cameroon develop its own capability to deliver advanced cardiac services... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne