Technological Progress - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

imperfect—it is a "stretch" (in terms of talent, not values). These assignments are riskier, since the manager is more likely to make mistakes that might set back his or her career progress or have a negative impact on... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

20 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

ground, investors could pull funding for a variety of reasons—not the least of which is the inconsistent pace with which human space travel has progressed following the shuttering of the Space Shuttle program by NASA in 2011. Can... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

mandate and management of international trade negotiations. Historically, legitimacy for GATT and later the WTO was understood to derive from expanding membership and success at major trade round negotiations. In the past decade, and despite a lack of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

Agarwal Abstract—Machine learning process technologies usher new questions regarding their potential complementarity with existing human capital. Within the context of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office examination process, our... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

pictures of trees, is said to make people happier, and trees are a great carbon-absorber. I’m always interested in progress for women. I will dip into Creating Gender-Inclusive Organizations, edited by Ellen Ernst Kossek and Kyung-Hee... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

not only generically more attractive in terms of the prosperity level they can support - the perspective taken by the traditional strategic industrial policy - but also are within reasonable reach for a country given its existing industry portfolio. There has recently... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

31 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

share and then progressing through this wheel of retailing is in the past. Smaller retailers are gaining influence by playing in very special niches where they don’t have to win with low prices ” Nick C said: “Perhaps it is a function of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

processes, capabilities, and resources; and defines milestones and risks. Along with the Enterprise Scorecard, Enterprise Performance Reports (which make an appropriate first page in the board book) show the enterprise's progress against... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

19 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

point is the most crucial—employee trust is hard to regain once it’s lost. E = Execute your organization’s post-COVID workforce plan in a timely fashion and evaluate your progress constantly. Ultimately, the TAKE framework is about... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

this as a process of socialization, externalization, combination, and internalization (SECI) that takes place in progressive phases to generate innovations over time. Published in October by Oxford University Press, The Wise Company... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

decade of technological progress will result in major changes, and I believe the site will morph into a potent and active force in people's lives. Today, Facebook is a passive vehicle where users manually... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

15 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

A New Model for Business: The Museum

along with companies like Apple, Facebook, and Progressive Insurance, is a leading example of firms that are thinking about customers in a new way—much like how a museum curator orchestrates the experience of patrons. Weaver, an assistant... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

strategy has been very successful, and its positive balance of trade with the United States reflects the progress it has made. But balance of trade is a lagging indicator of success. With looming View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology

08 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

An acclaimed author and expert on the development and commercialization of technological and business innovation, HBS professor Clayton Christensen has written a new book aimed at changing our national conversation about health care. In... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health

14 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition

coordinating with others, working in teams, or being denied “star” status. These leaders know that the best uses of technology and other support systems create frontline service heroes and heroines. They use it to elevate important... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Leonard A. Schlesinger; Retail

04 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

If you want to be awed by the pace of technological advancement over the past few decades, compare the capabilities of a bulky PC from 1984 with those of a sleek smartphone in 2016. You’ll find stark differences. But if you want to be... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

Administration at Harvard Business School. “This is technology that's going to help us to abate these issues around energy and climate, and it's the best technology in that space.” The spectacular rise of... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

08 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

billion in stimulus money would be directed toward smart grid technologies. This created excitement in the industry, and many utilities and technology companies made the smart grid a top priority. By 2009 venture capitalists had invested... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities

02 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage cultivation of public lands. During the first phase of American occupation (1898–1918), we find that the progress of implementing these reforms was very... View Details