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- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
A few years ago anyone could become an entrepreneur. All you needed was a half-baked idea and a phone to hear offers from salivating venture capitalists. Now the environment is much more difficult. Question: Do you have what it takes to... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
with respect and understanding. The payback is impressive." Several commented on the demands that NSM places on management in an uncertain environment and the need for communication. For example, Amitava commented that NSM is a good View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
Choudhury and his team built a “CEO Bot” by providing a large language model with all internal and external communications from the real boss, including emails and Slack messages. The idea was to create a machine “stand-in” that could... View Details
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
ambition, and become better job and wage negotiators while choosing a partner who can help share the load of a career. The work that Amy Cuddy has, as of this date, shared with more than 28 million viewers on TEDTalks provides nuts and bolts View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Mar 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing
capital. Would it be a better idea to ride the wave of globalization and try to get acquired by a multinational corporation? Or should the firm remain privately owned and focus its growth in Africa? After all, he noted, markets beyond... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
As big box bookstores Barnes & Noble and Borders spread across the landscape in the 1990s, retail observers sounded the death knell for small, independent booksellers. But they had no idea of the onslaught that was coming. Amazon.com... View Details
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
innovation in the industry is coming from entrants that say, “Let’s start with the patient perspective.” Sadun: Absolutely. And hopefully these new models will dispel the idea that there is a trade-off between providing excellent care and... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
Entrepreneurs aren’t short on ideas for exciting new products or companies, but they are often short-sighted when it comes to finding ways to fund and build those projects. “There is a huge amount of discussion about how you come up with... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
technology is being diverted to the creation of more variations on basic ideas faster instead of “an economy based on new products/platforms/ideas.” Donald Shaw cited “problems in finding qualified people to hire.” He also said that,... View Details
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
consequence, the likelihood of seeing the same mistakes repeated in the future. He also expressed an interest in doing something about it. "We came up with the idea that we could capture at least the past 30 or 40 years through the eyes... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
that social media users are increasingly attracted to the idea of such a model. But funding it without advertising's help won't be easy. Two digital marketing experts, Harvard Business School professors John Deighton, the Harold M.... View Details
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
rights only limit the growth of innovation"? The "societal view" of intellectual property was taken by Harsh Honmode, who said " ... a lifelong royalty on ideas will only dampen the spirit of another creative being to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
young firms, given the uncertainties that were a natural part of the entrepreneurial process," Lerner explained. "General Doriot's idea was to create a new kind of organization that established a selection process, supplied... View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
"And I would take our group of twenty-two here and match them up against anybody in the industry." Employees' Award-winning Ideas At Aetna, the Hartford, CT-based insurer, Rich Schlichting, a customer reporting and business... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
new achievement are further escalated by the glamorized treatment they receive in today's media-centric world. The elements of celebrity—spectacle, "bests," charisma, and any form of novelty from the latest in consumption to a sexy new organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
productivity, how many people they see. They have lousy information systems to back them up. And then they have a public policy establishment that more or less continuously deprecates their ideas and squeezes down their income. Not a... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?
Northern Ireland voted overwhelmingly to stay in the EU, opening the door to the idea of further referenda and a potential future break-up of the United Kingdom. We are now likely to face several years of painful negotiations as the UK... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products? How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital View Details
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
one misdeed. Source: Sam Howzit/CC by 2.0 “Going into it I had no idea if I was actually going to find the relationship as strong as it was,” Minor says. Once Minor decided to study risk preference and misconduct, picking a “real world”... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland