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- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
Perhaps no technology company outside of IBM has been able to keep on top of the industry as much as Microsoft. What's more, Bill Gates & Co. have achieved this success during times of incredible technological transformation, usually... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
CEO Tenure Is Getting Shorter. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
What should business people in particular know about the pros and cons of attempts to treat and control diabetes—or indeed other chronic diseases? That was the focus of a lively case-study discussion among some fifty participants led by... View Details
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
would avoid a "one size fits all" approach to the practice of making compensation known. These are the views put forth by participants in this month's discussion of transparency in compensation. Disclosing pay ranges vs.... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
Waterman), Level 5 Leadership (described by Jim Collins as centered around personal humility and professional will), servant leadership (defined by Robert Greenleaf in terms of service to others as a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- February 2016 (Revised July 2017)
- Case
An Australian Ballot for California?
By: David Moss, Marc Campasano and Dean Grodzins
In early 1891, California lawmakers were considering a plan to reform the state's elections through the introduction of an “Australian” ballot. Under this new system, candidates from all qualifying parties would appear on official ballots, which would be printed by... View Details
Moss, David, Marc Campasano, and Dean Grodzins. "An Australian Ballot for California?" Harvard Business School Case 716-054, February 2016. (Revised July 2017.)
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
Vermont may not be that important to a senator in Kansas, where there are fewer forests," Cohen explains. "If they can do some kind of vote trading between them on that logging bill, then the Vermont senator can do the Kansas senator a favor later View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details
- February 2016 (Revised July 2017)
- Case
Leadership and Independence at the Federal Reserve
By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
“From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy.” Ron Paul, a Republican from... View Details
Keywords: Government Legislation; Central Banking; Policy; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
Moss, David, and Marc Campasano. "Leadership and Independence at the Federal Reserve." Harvard Business School Case 716-040, February 2016. (Revised July 2017.)
- 06 Aug 2014
- What Do You Think?
What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?
Summing Up Was Warren Bennis's Optimism Regarding the Future of Leadership Warranted? In a recent obituary for Warren Bennis in the New York Times, former executive and HBS Professor Bill George was quoted as writing that "I look at... View Details
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
themselves. Now more than ever, American society needs this kind of exchange of ideas.” Bill added, “All it takes for evil to flourish is for good people to remain silent.” Jesteeleconsult commented, “Looking the other way in times of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
forces with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Boston Consulting Group to determine how business leaders can partner more effectively with educators to support America's students and schools. "Study after study has shown... View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
is: job ownership: nature or nurture? What do you think? Original Column There’s an age-old question: “Does anyone ever take a rental car to the car wash?” For years, Bill Marriott instinctively has picked up trash as he walks through... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
box, and the remote. Your breakfast-included hotel bill still features separate prices for bed and for breakfast. Partitioning should only be used by those sellers who want to sensitize people to a secondary... View Details
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
In order to garner the capital necessary to foot the bill for social change, nonprofits need to think less about traditional grants and more in terms of innovation--and so do the organizations that fund them. This was a key message from... View Details
- 01 Oct 2009
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?
leadership? Those arguing that the two can coexist cite situations, generally involving adversity, in which the "greater good" is served by masking a leader's feelings. Frances Pratt argued that " we must be careful (and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage
benefits. Now, they say, we are reaping the consequences of that misapprehension. Employees left their jobs at alarming rates over the past year as they reassessed their lives in the face of COVID-19. Other workers are “quietly quitting,” resolving to do the bare... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Nov 2016
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Making a Fast Start on a New Job
Manager (Like Bill Belichick)? Few of us want to take less money to move to another organization, but research shows hooking up with the right manager—whether in sports or business—can quickly increase your value even if your pay is less.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details