Filter Results:
(2,574)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,794)
- People (7)
- News (609)
- Research (2,574)
- Events (10)
- Multimedia (33)
- Faculty Publications (930)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,794)
- People (7)
- News (609)
- Research (2,574)
- Events (10)
- Multimedia (33)
- Faculty Publications (930)
Sort by
- 10 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: The Coming World Oil Crisis
increase supply, and develop alternatives to oil. Doing so will require policy, innovation, and leadership. But first it requires that people wake up to the sobering ramifications of peak oil, which may be the defining issue of this century. Key View Details
- 26 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Business and the Environment
magnitude that could happen very quickly. This transition will be a journey that will bring attractive investment and business opportunities, but won't be without peril. Key concepts include: The earth has experienced significant... View Details
- 18 Nov 2016
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Making a Fast Start on a New Job
Experience Lacking experience, contract workers find it difficult to advance to a job with expanded responsibilities. But it can be done. Research into the the concept of "stretchwork." Reflecting on Work Improves Job... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Successful Negotiation
past several years, cannot be accounted for by gender differences in work commitment, education, and experience, or other considerations such as unionization. In this working paper, Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn review two bodies of literature on gender in... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: The Future of Market Capitalism
the capitalist system. Possible solutions include applying business principles to societal problems through social entrepreneurship, and seeking profits in ways that also make a broader contribution to society. Key concepts include: There... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
management. While acknowledging the growing entrepreneurial demands on leadership, others also recognize the need to simultaneously defend "sustainable competitive advantage." The concept of ambidexterity championed by Michael... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
It's that paradox—that struggle can be both something to overcome on the way to success and something to embrace for the meaning it gives our lives—that motivated Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco to take a closer look at the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
firm's investment opportunities. We apply Perfect Bayesian equilibrium solution concepts and confirm that over a range of reasonable model parameters the firm's investment decision does not maximize expected profits. Surprisingly, this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
end, participants agreed that while disease management is a thorny concept involving all these many constituencies, it might in some instances leave room for business potential in the form of a carve-out. A carve-out, as defined in the... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
opportunities," Chesbrough commented. "It's essential to find a way to relate new business concepts that spring from your research to what your company is already doing." In closing, Chesbrough asked his audience to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
Summing Up When and Where Will Holacracy Work Best? Holacracy, or self-management, is an interesting concept and not entirely new. It can work, but only under the right conditions. And its applications will be limited. That's what one... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
overloading forces better time management " KHA attributed part of the problem to the perception that "We love a 'hard worker,'" rewarding effort and time spent at work as much or more than results. Yet another concern, expressed by Yadeed Lobo, is that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
The HBS Executive Education course Leading Professional Service Firms (LPSF) is an intensive, one-week program that focuses on management issues unique to these firms. It provides a forum for participants from around the world to apply the View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
Netscape's initial financiers, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. While Brooks struggled to interest EG&G in backing his concept (EG&G considered Brooks's idea outside its core business), Kleiner... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
from an aggregate perspective) and framed the issues surrounding non-zero-sum games (most business ones). Also, the concept of "learning curves" became an increasingly important tool for planning. The learning curve was first... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
such a rich trove of information." Lurtz's research has revealed a patchwork of entrepreneurial effort that contradicted common conceptions about agriculture and commerce in that era. Much credit for the expansion of Mexican export crops... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
attention and sometimes it wouldn't." Bernstein elaborates on this concept in the paper "Seeing Too Much: Too Much in Sight or Too Little Insight?" The paper was chosen for inclusion in the Academy of Management's Best... View Details
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
technical problem, adoption was more problematic. But where the surgeon framed the challenge as one of organizational learning, we saw much more success with adoption. Psychological safety, a concept originally developed by one of our... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
creation of jobs and attracting investment, said Bruce Bolnick, a fellow in Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. However, he did not agree that business should have a free hand in directly influencing grand economic decisions in African countries.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace