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- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
the men who had led IBM to near-disaster in the 1980s. Fighting denial is not a matter of IQ. It is a matter of point of view. Excerpt From denial: Why Business Leaders Fail To Look Facts In The Face—and What To Do About It By View Details
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- March 1993
- Background Note
Stages Theory, The: A Framework for IT Adoption and Organizational Learning
By: Richard L. Nolan, David Croson and Katherine Seger
Describes Professor Richard Nolan's Stages Theory of Information Technology adoption by organizations. View Details
Keywords: Information; Body of Literature; Information Management; Information Publishing; Adoption; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Decision Making; Information Technology Industry
Nolan, Richard L., David Croson, and Katherine Seger. "Stages Theory, The: A Framework for IT Adoption and Organizational Learning." Harvard Business School Background Note 193-141, March 1993.
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
Business School professor Richard H. K. Vietor, How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy. Vietor undertakes a country-by-country examination of the unique social, cultural, political, and historical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Management and author of Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Lessons from Other Sectors. The environmental challenges we face are among the most important issues facing business. If, as current scientific research suggests, it would be prudent to remove 80 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Feb 2024
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire for Attitude?
(AdobeStock/Mediteraneo) For years, my colleagues and I have advised anyone who would listen to hire for attitude, train for skills. Organizations that get it backward pay a heavy price. One of my favorite quotes is that of Richard... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2024
- What Do You Think?
What's Enough to Make Us Happy?
ambitious but not always assured. “Career planning provides an opportunity to think about 'enough,' especially in a given timeframe." Our late colleague at Harvard Business School, Clayton Christensen, provided inspiration for this kind of thinking View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
designing Care: Aligning The Nature And Management Of Health Care By Richard M.J. Bohmer At its heart, health care is the application of a general body of knowledge to the needs of a specific patient. For... View Details
- 30 Aug 2023
- News
Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows
- 24 Mar 2015
- News
The King Buried Under The Parking Lot
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
the world has three. I don't mean to boast. And there are lots of things that we've been working on since the eighties. We've been trying to get an HIV vaccine since the 1980s and we've been unsuccessful. Neeley: So, where does this leave us? Frazier: Let me start... View Details
- 22 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?
that, then that company has more capital and can do things that it couldn't otherwise do.” Doing well by doing good is an important trend in business generally and venture capital specifically, with the sphere of impact investing no... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows
Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2023 recipients of its Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1988 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (MBA 1959), a former... View Details
- 02 Mar 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
from government. Suggestions of causes of the current challenge of rapidly rising costs in relation to quality of outcomes, at least by the imperfect measure of life expectancy, included waste in the system (Julie Maire, Edward Hare, and... View Details
- July 1993
- Supplement
Ethics in Marketing
By: John A. Quelch
Compilation of commercials for six marketing case studies included in the book Ethics in Marketing by N. Smith and J.A. Quelch, published by Richard D. Irwin, Homewood, IL. View Details
Quelch, John A. "Ethics in Marketing." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 593-512, July 1993.
- 06 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn
Reduction, co-authored by Harvard Business School’s Christopher T. Stanton, along with Jason Sandvik and Nathan Seegert of the University of Utah; and Richard Saouma of Michigan State University. “Managers... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 19 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior
suitcases at the airport. But now agencies are finding that subtle “nudges” can motivate behavior much better than ads, fines, or deadlines. Nudges, or small changes to the context in which decisions are made, are the subject of a new analysis View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others
advancement—especially important in a hot labor market at a time of economic uncertainty. “Your digital network can have lasting implications on how your career progresses, not just over the next year, but over your whole life,” says Iavor Bojinov, assistant professor... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
first time a wide range of top industry CEOs, government leaders, and customers of transportation services, was designed to help provide that purpose by assessing the state of the industry, identifying innovations both in technology and... View Details