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- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
distinct competitive disadvantage for nonprofits." A small number of attempts are under way to begin to alleviate some of these problems, Grossman notes, including some eight "venture-capital-type philanthropic funds" that provide the wherewithal for what is commonly... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
when NASA started investing in the commercial space sector in a more concerted way. It created a program called Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS). It spent $500 million to start seeding rocket launch companies to provide a... View Details
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
Government: Yes Or No? Shin Yasunobe, a former director within various departments of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), and now executive director of Stanford's Japan Center for Research, warned against... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
companies have gotten in on the game. Quelch, who holds a joint appointment at HBS and Harvard School of Public Health, wrote the case for a new course debuting next year called "Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health,"... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
new ways. Thus, Greg Dyke's first major initiative, announced within two months of his arrival, was called "One BBC: Making It Happen," to highlight that he was seeking more collaboration throughout the organization. Executive... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
all the others." Calls for sacrifice and self-discipline are met with cynicism, skepticism, and knee-jerk resistance. Our research into organizational transformation has involved settings as diverse as multinational corporations,... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
weakness?"Source: FredFroese The data included test results for a specific low-skilled job across 15 different companies in a variety of industries. (The researchers agreed to keep the actual job description confidential, but say it is similar in nature to... View Details
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
know, no substantive solutions were reached. Instead, “markets” provided the best regulation. By 2011, according to a Pew Research Center study, the number of Mexican-born residents in the US had actually begun to decline as the Mexican... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
Times were hard for Webvan this year. Like other online grocers and delivery services that hit the screen in 2001—among them, Homegrocer, Kozmo, and Streamline—Webvan finally called it quits in July after two years in business. Webvan may... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
operations. And through Arbitrage, they exploit disparities between national or regional markets, often by locating different parts of the supply chain in different places—for instance, call centers in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
center of much discussion. The advice most often provided to managers is to weave the brand into the most potent popular culture trends. Recently, consultants and ad agencies began emphasizing the reverse: recommending that managers seek... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
other aspect of my life for professional achievement, but professional achievement has been at the center of my decision-making process throughout my adult life." At first, Tony's crime and confession are hard to explain. By looking... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
Women-owned businesses are just as financially strong and creditworthy as the average U.S. firm, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Women's Business Research. Yet women struggle more than men to acquire equity capital.... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Your CEO Succession Plan Can’t Wait (Harvard Business Review) A Pandemic Won’t Kill The Open Office, But... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
people who are, as John Kotter has said, able to produce "extremely useful change." Recently this discussion has centered around the ability of a leader to discourage subordinates who always say "yes" to her opinions,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
school's new online education program. "We often think of ideas in the visual space arising through creative genius. But they actually are shaped through experience," Anand said during a summit session called "Transforming Giants: Forget... View Details
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
services to citizens can institute service improvements and metrics modeled after those in the private sector. They can call on social marketers to aid in communicating with customers and creating attractive exchanges that will achieve... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
in what people think, and you need to find the right people to talk to you,” says Elkins, a professor of history and African and African American Studies at Harvard, and the founding director of the Harvard Center for African Studies.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel