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- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
the US and China.” But ProfPaul views this as a long-shot. As he put it, “China remains committed to its own economic and political advancement at the expense of its trade... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
When most people think of innovation, they envision developed-world companies such as the U.S.A.'s IBM, Japan's Sony, South Korea's Samsung, Finland's Nokia, or Switzerland's Novartis, technology leaders that have stayed at the cutting... View Details
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
remarks of that nature. Crossing Cultures Negotiating across cultures is cited in the article as being "akin to a dance in which one person does a waltz and another a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
What happens to a country's economy when its government is politically unstable, such as has been the case historically in Mexico? Can business get done under a strong-arm dictatorship, or when a government is too weak to protect the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
American and Asian subjects, for instance, the marketing implications may be very different. "Expressions of happiness in some Eastern cultures are expressed as a sense of calm or peace, whereas in some... View Details
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
on mainframes. DEC moved up-market with a much lower cost structure and eventually attacked IBM. In the newspaper industry, we saw that firms can overcome this resource commitment problem by recognizing the challenge and framing the... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
behavior. In a laboratory experiment, I show that crowd out in response to public incentives is much less likely among those with public, as opposed to private, reputations. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
Business unit buy in was a concern of Asit Goel. "Sponsorship from the top is critical to make innovation part of the culture but resource commitment from the BUs (business units) is critical if an idea... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device Authors:Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier, and Dina Pomeranz Abstract We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
that a hunger to nourish the spirit indeed seems to be driving the movement to find greater meaning in work. In his book Spirited Leading and Learning, Vaill describes many of the economic and cultural stresses he believes have spurred... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
Elkins and her students spent considerable time, before and during their immersion in Cape Town, unpacking cultural and contextual knowledge specific to South Africa, including its apartheid legacies. “Making students aware of this... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
relationships. Connection in meaningful relationships is essential to professional learning and development, she believes. Most scholars have tended to focus on careers as they affect individuals. These researchers, for instance, look at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
MBA education that has socialization as a pedagogical function." His view is seconded by a respondent who currently is in the last semester of an online graduate program and says that "virtual education is one more way to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Feb 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?
their students may devote most of their study of management to them, relegating the less-accessible matters of getting things done to the back burner—and, in the view of some, rightly so. As one respondent put it, "'doing' needs more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
For many years, Americans have shown their generosity to myriad nonprofit organizations. And 1999 was no exception, as charitable giving in this country reached a record high of just over $190 billion. At the same time, however, there is... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
It's the dream business location. Vital infrastructure feeds the area. A committed workforce lives nearby. A large number of potential customers are packed around you. And it's the last place you thought to look: the inner city. But the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
a nation still shadowed by Mao Zedong’s controversial legacy institute market-based reforms that have made the country the world’s second-largest economic power. He has helped document that journey as the author of scores of cases,... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
supporting a culture that enables all team members to bring their full selves to the table. This theme is also personally important as in the 1990s, growing up in South Africa, the work of Judith Shklar was... View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
of directors of Medtronic, Inc., a company known for its commitment to effective corporate governance, must prepare for the departure of Chairman & CEO Bill George and the retirement of four long-time directors. The company had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace