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- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
By 1910, however, with the new name Madam C.J. Walker, Breedlove had accrued a sizable fortune and considerable influence. This daughter of adversity was now well known and respected among the nation's African Americans as a savvy... View Details
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
made at hotels if Airbnb wasn't an option. The San Francisco-based home-sharing platform still made its mark on the hotel industry, however. The researchers found that Airbnb's growth through 2014 reduced hotel variable profits View Details
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
of management became a central focus. This organizational narcissism not only produced the Enron effect, but it cost managers a front-row seat in a changing society marked by the dramatically different... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
Sometimes a little push like that is all employees need to get out of a rut. About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: Mark Kostich] Related Reading Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril Knowledge Transfer: You... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
the rest of the organization.” Regarding hiring, Mark reminded us that “Simply addressing the numbers is short-sighted and often can lead to significant damage to an organization. People brought in as ‘diversity hires’ can be seen View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
business leaders are using to transform communications with their employees and customers, as it shifts from one-way transmission of information to two-way interaction. That's one reason Time magazine just named Facebook founder Mark... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders: What the Airline Industry Can Teach Us about Leadership (Palgrave Macmillan), coauthored by Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School, and Mark... View Details
- 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
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
of the graduates." Lisa Marks Dolan, a business school dean, feels that much of the problem lies in the way teachers are trained. She writes, "We're being asked to produce graduates who can integrate, adapt, manage global... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
Back in the early 1990s, managers of U.S. companies were justifiably proud of the well-oiled machines they'd made of their supply chains. Over the previous fifteen to twenty years, they'd wrung costs from the mechanisms and processes by... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
which makes the policies themselves a whole lot easier to figure out. This is basically what I've tried to do in my book. Q: You point out that American risk management policy has passed through three phases. Can you give the major characteristics of these phases and... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 06 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
India Needs to Encourage Trade with China
their visits by making the proverbial nods to Buddhism. In 2003, for example, the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited the Baima Si, White Horse Temple, in China's Henan province, one of the monuments that View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
responsibility, even if that comes at the expenses (sic) of growth.” Original Column On April 2, 2019 the leadership team at YouTube, headed by CEO Susan Wojcicki ( “The most powerful woman on the internet,” according to Time magazine),... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
the limits of attempts by outside governments to improve business and political conditions in other countries. Answering them, however, required a long and detailed romp through the history of US involvement with what Secretary of War... View Details
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
were a number of views regarding the role of judgment. Wayne Brewer commented that "judgment is needed for creating a vision, decision tools are for optimizing a decision." Mark Andrew said, "Judgment can work well in 'high... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
path between the traditional top-down, inside-the-tent corporate structure and unbridled license to suppliers to do as they want. Marked by high levels of direction and support, this approach offers... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
government incentives to bolster their arguments. This view was characterized by Mark Townsend Cox, who commented, "I can count almost twenty methods of creating electricity without burning something,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
We’ve Now Been Asking “What Do You Think?” for 20 Years
This month marks the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of my “What do you think?” column. The Working Knowledge website was the brainchild of a faculty and staff committee organized in 2000 by then Dean... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
and other types of data are still locked away from Internet users. It's really going to be about great execution.— Mark Kroese, MSN "Rather than leave someone behind, the approach we at Google take is, 'Let's make all that... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels