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- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
option that is often more convenient than a traditional taxicab service—not to mention less expensive. With these benefits, consumers and investors are also tempted to give these companies a pass for... View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
funds to buy gifts for friends. To buy a group gift, a person goes on eBay's Group Gifts site, and names a recipient, either by typing the name in directly or by picking the name from the list of his or her Facebook friends. eBay then... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
example, debt seems to be on the mind of a lot of people. That's ironic at a time when, as one CEO recently told me, "There is a sale on money." (One company with which I am familiar acted on that belief recently by borrowing a billion dollars that it didn't... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
individual customers of such firms. The experience of this case study merits further investigation of the use of different types of activity configurations depending on a given industry's underlying value creation logic. It provides insights into the types of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
a Highly Elusive, Marginal, and Illegal Practice" will be published in a forthcoming issue of Sociologie du Travail. Sean Silverthorne: What are homers and how prevalent is the practice? Can you View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
economic construct; it’s a psychological construct—the happiness one gets by being close to family and friends—and it needs to be taken into account.” By giving workers the flexibility to take vacation time... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 18 Apr 2005
- Lessons from the Classroom
NFL Players Touch Down at HBS
Jones. That's why he and twenty-nine fellow players from around the National Football League have exchanged play books for business books this spring at Harvard Business School, where they were immersed in a three-day program to learn... View Details
- 27 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Social Network Marketing: What Works?
camera. Sony can either advertise on Facebook and accept a very low click-through rate, or give away free cameras to several Facebook members (potentially at a lower cost than advertising) View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
institutional investor level (i.e., temptation of one asset manager to free ride on the engagement efforts of other asset managers) and providing direct incentives for engagement to large institutional investors. Silverthorne: Could you... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
retired." This led Illysa to comment, "One more reason we must choose not only our careers but our work places carefully: who do we want to become?" Heidi Olson wondered "if the change in hormones when gaining power is responsible for some of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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 profession, with the social... View Details
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
information economy are: (1) How do organizations learn? and (2) How does the "corporate brain" really work? The increased attention to what Thomas Stewart terms "intellectual capital"—the sum of everything everybody... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
Shih: It has a lot of potential for misuse and could cause safety problems. It’s going to mine a load of data. The question is: do people really want to share that much information? The bargain on the modern internet is: “You’ll View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Developing the Global Leader
insatiable need to learn about other cultures." A knack for cross-boundary partnering. "You need to feel comfortable engaging a team in India and giving them as much power as a team in Germany or... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
content ... [with] aggregation and interpretation of knowledge [as] ... their core competency," all of which gives them significant competitive advantages in the educational market. However, this... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
Recent research at Harvard Business School began with the premise that as a state's congressional delegation grew in stature and power in Washington, D.C., local businesses would benefit from the increased federal spending sure to come... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
leverage this source of demand to learn from these experiences and design and develop innovative products. What should GM do? It must aim to achieve a clear transition with the IPO View Details
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
attributes. You see that with the success of the airline JetBlue, for example: It has no meals and no round-trip airfares, but it does have leather seats and personal entertainment centers that delight View Details
- 27 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should I Pay the Bribe?
other countries, and give them a grade. This would introduce some external checks on judicial systems that have become too politicized to be of any real use in the fight against corruption. View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell