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Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
For years—even decades—in response to intensifying global competition, American companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in... View Details
- 09 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
The Need for (Long) Chains in Kidney Exchange
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
fulfillment of community needs. (Of course, Friedman's formulation leaves the manager with two problems: the sum of consumer desires does not necessarily equal community need, and many—perhaps... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Mar 2013
- News
Dell Needs a Rethink and Restart: Lerner
- 24 Mar 2012
- News
Become “ The Strategist” Your Business Needs
- 13 May 2015
- News
Why Infrastructure In America Needs To Change
- 30 Jan 2020
- News
What Organizations Need to Survive a Pandemic
- Summer 2018
- Article
CSR needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics
By: Thomas Lyon, Magali A. Delmas, John W. Maxwell, Pratima Bansal, Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, Patricia Crifo, Rodolphe Durand, Jean-Pascal Gond, Andrew King, Michael Lenox, Michael W. Toffel, David Vogel and Frank Wijen
Corporate sustainability has gone mainstream, and many companies have taken meaningful steps to improve their own environmental performance. But while corporate political actions such as lobbying can have a greater impact on environmental quality, they are ignored in... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Communication; Policy; Business and Government Relations
Lyon, Thomas, Magali A. Delmas, John W. Maxwell, Pratima Bansal, Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, Patricia Crifo, Rodolphe Durand, Jean-Pascal Gond, Andrew King, Michael Lenox, Michael W. Toffel, David Vogel, and Frank Wijen. "CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics." California Management Review 60, no. 4 (Summer 2018): 5–24.
- 09 Jan 2019
- News
Why New England Needs New Ideas
In a recent piece in the Boston Globe Magazine, Professor Clay Christensen, Karen Dillon, a senior researcher at Christensen’s Institute for Disruptive Innovation, and Efosa Ojomo (MBA 2015), a research fellow at the Institute, use New England’s history View Details
Keywords: New England
- January–February 2012
- Article
Do You Need a New Product-Development Strategy?
By: Alan MacCormack, W. Crandall, P. Toft and P. Henderson
Many firms rely on a single new-product development process for all projects. But designing new products for different business contexts requires that a firm deploy different new-product development processes. Products designed for stable and mature end-user markets... View Details
MacCormack, Alan, W. Crandall, P. Toft, and P. Henderson. "Do You Need a New Product-Development Strategy?" Research-Technology Management 55, no. 1 (January–February 2012): 34–43.
- November–December 2022
- Article
Your Company Needs a Space Strategy. Now.
By: Matthew Weinzierl, Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Alan MacCormack and Brendan Rosseau
Space is becoming a potential source of value for businesses across a range of sectors, including agriculture, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, and tourism. To understand what the opportunities are for your company, the authors advise you to consider the four ways in... View Details
Keywords: Space Strategy; Emerging Markets; Natural Resources; Analytics and Data Science; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Adaptation; Competition; Aerospace Industry
Weinzierl, Matthew, Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Alan MacCormack, and Brendan Rosseau. "Your Company Needs a Space Strategy. Now." Harvard Business Review (November–December 2022): 80–91.
- 06 Jun 2011
- News
Academics need to get 'down and dirty'
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
Corporate budgeting is a joke, and everyone knows it. It consumes a huge amount of executives' time, forcing them into endless rounds of dull meetings and tense negotiations. It encourages managers to lie... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 11 Mar 2013
- Video
chillbaby - Episode 1 - Moms Needed
- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 26 Oct 2017
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10 Skills Teens Need to Succeed in Today's Economy
In a recent study by Payscale, most employers surveyed said that college grads don't possess the soft skills they are looking for. This issue, along with the dramatic increase in the cost of a college education, suggests that parents need to become much more engaged in... View Details
- 2008
- Working Paper
Liquidity Needs in Economies with Interconnected Financial Obligations
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
A model is developed where firms in a financial system have to settle their debts to each other by using a liquid asset. The question that is studied is how many firms must obtain how much of this asset from outside the financial system to make sure that all debts... View Details
Rotemberg, Julio J. "Liquidity Needs in Economies with Interconnected Financial Obligations." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14222, August 2008.
- September 19, 2019
- Article
Walmart CEO’s Decision on Guns Is the Kind of Corporate Courage We Need
Corporate courage is in short supply. CEOs generally avoid controversial public issues lest disgruntled groups strike back. That’s why Walmart’s actions to limit ammunition sales and advocate for new gun safety legislation mark a significant milestone. CEO Doug... View Details
Keywords: Gun Policy; Gun Violence; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Leadership; Change; Policy
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Walmart CEO’s Decision on Guns Is the Kind of Corporate Courage We Need." CNN.com (September 19, 2019).
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
Train your successor before you need one
- 21 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
3 Things Women Need to Know About Business School
with Suzanne Willis and Jessica Snow-Wasserman (both from the Class of 2015) about what they think women need to know about business school. 1. There is support for women in business school on many... View Details
- 17 Oct 2014
- News
Addressing unmet needs in the music industry
Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015) is thinking about ways to bring new leadership and innovation to the music industry. (Published October 2014) View Details