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- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
What lessons could the humid shores of the Caribbean, the freezing heights of the Himalayas, or the farthest reaches of Earth's atmosphere hold for your company or organization? Although those places couldn't be more different, all were the scenes of disastrous...
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by Garry Emmons
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
auto market in the 1950s. The industry leader, unbothered by competition and looming threats, began to coast on its former glory, however, and bypass such areas as consumer preferences and industry innovation. View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
treated fairly within their larger organizations. “These surveys should be broken down by demographic categories, including race and gender, to identify certain populations that have a lower engagement or sense of commitment to the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023
then-controversial decision to refuse to fight in the Vietnam War. Robert Simons discusses how Ali made decisions throughout his life and career to leave a lasting impact on the world. Managing the Future of Work AI: The Good, the Bad,...
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by Danielle Kost
- 02 Mar 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
that all of this amount could be recouped eventually through the elimination of healthcare expenses incurred by those unable to pay now. Now comes Robert Frank, a Cornell economist, who has proposed ways of...
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- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
Judging by the most-read articles and faculty working papers over the last year, our readers continue to be fascinated by the emergence of social networks and their potential impacts on business and...
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by Staff
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
democracies. "Rodrik rejects the notion that efficient markets for capital, goods, and labor will always regulate themselves" Recent books by Dani Rodrik and Robert Kuttner generally support these...
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by James Heskett
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
more low key. In fact, when we looked at it more closely, the risk management team was busy developing tools diligently toiling away and gaining enterprise-wide influence at multiple levels." Next Steps Mikes, who, with HBS professor View Details
- 19 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book
Editor's note: Harvard Business School in mid-October played host to the 2010 Workshop on Integrated Reporting: Frameworks and Action Plan. Under direction of conference organizer Robert G. Eccles, participants recently published an...
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- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
on specific proposals begin the week of June 22.] Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's proposals for fixing the broken financial system closely resemble those found in Moss's own playbook. In this instance, the book is a Special Report on Regulatory Reform,...
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- 05 Jul 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?
performance of an organization has long been debated, and the debate has focused most recently on the controversy over compensation for CEOs. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton cite studies that maintain that no more than 10 percent of the...
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by James Heskett
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
product development in firms and communities, co-wrote the case with former HBS professor Robert D. Austin and Yumi Yi to encourage further exploration of the benefits and tactics of open-data approaches. “ All agencies will have issues,...
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- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
ship, the Endurance, became hopelessly trapped in pack ice, Shackleton abandoned one cherished goal and shouldered another that was forced on him by circumstance. Through extraordinary hardships that lasted almost two more years, he...
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation, the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator is a partnership between the foundation, Harvard Business School, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The alliance is working to eliminate...
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- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
Malcolm P. McLean, a truck driver, fundamentally transformed the centuries-old shipping industry, an industry that had long decided that it had no incentive to change. By developing the first safe, reliable, and cost effective approach to...
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- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
conventional wisdom isn’t enough to produce significant innovation; we must go further. Our thinking can too easily get confined by silos and structures that limit us to what is familiar, what we see every day, what the people around us...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Four Strategies for Making Concessions
Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie's book A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System (ILR Press, 1991). The head of a manufacturing firm was preparing to initiate talks with the leadership...
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by Deepak Malhotra
- 04 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Level II Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its ‘Behind the Table’ Challenges
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by James Sebenius
- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones...
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- 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 profession, with the social...
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