Donald - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

preface. Bower is the School’s Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration and Co-chair of the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, and Lynn... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

regulations. Dean Donald K. David of Harvard Business School; Merrill Griswold, the President of Massachusetts Investors Trust; and several other prominent industrialists and lawyers mounted a successful campaign to relax the laws of... View Details

Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

05 Dec 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

Summing Up Can Managers Afford to Ignore Predictions in Planning? There is a healthy skepticism when it comes to the reliability of predictions as a basis for planning. Donald Kortalon, commenting on this month's column, cites a number of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

CEO Succession: The Case at Ford

remain the company's executive chairman.) Harvard Business School professor Joseph L. Bower, the Donald Kirk David Professor of Business Administration, is an expert on corporate strategy, organization, and leadership. He discusses the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Auto; Employment

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

not a recommendation to manufacture a false enthusiasm to gloss over problems. Speaking about and to employees' pride has to be authentic; employees will quickly sniff out managerial insincerity, and the manager's communication will backfire. As View Details

Keywords: by Theodore Kinni

20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

propose a way to alter our health insurance benefits universe for insured employees and the self-insured by combining the best of Republican and Democratic ideas about health insurance. More choice, affordability, and personal control A union between President View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/619006-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-063 Japan: Deficits, Deflation and Debt In April 2018, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was again in Washington to petition Donald Trump. After years... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

With Donald Trump’s election, Washington’s policy debate on financial services shifted overnight. Recent signs such as the president-elect’s own words and those of GOP leaders point to renewed efforts to dismantle the Dodd-Frank Act.... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services

02 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

Donald Trump, the new CEO of ExxonMobil faced many strategic questions. How should ExxonMobil invest going forward? What were the capabilities that ExxonMobil needed to develop in order to be successful in the future? Did the accounting... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

Sucher: Dust off that COVID playbook After the June 27 debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, 64 percent of 1,024 US workers surveyed reported suffering—or seeing others suffer—poor treatment at work for... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

directors who exert pressure to really change failing companies. Unfortunately, it often takes a crisis, which then leads to a new chief executive. One of the chapters in our book, by Donald Sull of London Business School, develops a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

sanctification, contributing to the growing literature on social construction of value. 2013 pub Six Ways to Sink a Growth Initiative By: Laurie, Donald L., and J. Bruce Harreld Abstract—The conventional wisdom about how best to pursue... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

October 2019
Article

Adaptive Platform Trials: Definition, Design, Conduct and Reporting Considerations

By: Derek C. Angus, Brian M. Alexander, Scott Berry, Meredith Buxton, Roger Lewis, Melissa Paoloni, Steven A. R. Webb, Steven Arnold, Anna Barker, Donald A. Berry, Marc J. M. Bonten, Mary Brophy, Christopher Butler, Timothy F. Cloughesy, Lennie P. G. Derde, Laura J. Esserman, Ryan Ferguson, Louis Fiore, Sarah C. Gaffey, J. Michael Gaziano, Kathy Giusti, Herman Goossens, Stephane Heritier, Bradley Hyman, Michael Krams, Kay Larholt, Lisa M. LaVange, Philip Lavori, Andrew W. Lo, Alexander J. London, Victoria Manax, Colin McArthur, Genevieve O’Neill, Giovanni Parmigiani, Jane Perlmutter, Elizabeth A. Petzold, Craig Ritchie, Kathryn M. Rowan, Christopher W. Seymour, Nathan I. Shapiro, Diane M. Simeone, Bradley Smith, Bradley Spellberg, Ariel Dora Stern, Lorenzo Trippa, Mark Trusheim, Kert Viele, Patrick Y. Wen and Janet Woodcock

Researchers, clinicians, policymakers, and patients are increasingly interested in questions about therapeutic interventions that are difficult or costly to answer with traditional, free-standing, parallel-group randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Examples include... View Details

Keywords: Adaptive Platform Trials; Health Testing and Trials

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