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- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
discovered that this compulsory secrecy program was in place during the war, and after the war it transitioned to a peacetime policy that persists to this day,” Gross says. “Everybody in the system benefits from being able to access... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
report violations when they observe them, so they are actually violating their ethics code by not reporting violations,” Soltes says. Companies have good reason to try and change that. For starters, firms that have an effective compliance View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
management" under a program called "Holacracy," a concept being adopted by several hundred other firms. Instead of being led by managers, associates along with their former managers are encouraged to define their own jobs... View Details
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
where tendencies towards future thinking may be strong or weak, and tailor their programs effectively. Beyond those findings, however, the implications of future-focused language may have other effects on corporate behavior. "The idea... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
come together. You hear the Mela before you see it. I had expected serenity, sanctuary, devotion. What I experience instead is a nonstop cacophony as each of the major Akharas (aligned but competing religious denominations; there are about 17 of them) blasts its own... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
nationally recognized practicing psychiatrist who has developed outpatient treatment programs based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). These patients, typically adolescent girls... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
long-term goals Agile programs usually include a session on the approach of Miyamoto Musashi, known as one of the greatest of all samurai. As a strategist, Musashi's insight was to create a style using two swords simultaneously: a long... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
Energy facility, when he suddenly had a brainstorm that he knew would help him as well as others solve an all-too-common problem. 1 Using the "gopher" technology that had long made the exchange of files and programs across... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
first big-city innovation offices in the United States. In April 2013, he helped guide the mayor’s office’s response to the attacks on the Boston Marathon. At HBS, he has helped build the Young American Leaders Program and is an adviser... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
2007, Google responded by organizing the OpenSocial Initiative. OpenSocial provided an application programming interface (API) that was adapted by many of Facebook's social networking rivals, including MySpace and LinkedIn. Relying on a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2019
- What Do You Think?
Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?
everyone in the class is calculating what each minute of class time is costing them? One study found that between 2015 and 2017, only 16 percent of cases used in the Stanford MBA program featured female protagonists. Another criticism is... View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
though not impossible, since the data does include anonymous personal identifiers that are built off of social security numbers. The Holy Grail would be to cross-reference the database with information about immigration visa status in order to measure which visa View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
short- and long-term direct monetary effects of operating a winning athletics program for an academic institution of higher education. We construct a unique panel dataset from multiple sources and utilize the latest dynamic panel data... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
Field Research Out of the classroom, Ashraf has been walking the talk by incorporating co-production into her own field research. In 2010 Ashraf was part of a research team that helped the Zambian government with a nascent national View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
program at HBS, many of whom pursue careers in the venture capital industry. In fact, people with Harvard MBAs make up 24.4 percent of the professional ranks at venture capital firms in the United States, according to a study by... View Details
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
(HBS MBA'87), director of the Agribusiness Program at HBS. A Family Farm Woolf Farming & Processing, established in 1974, is located in the southern part of California's Central Valley, one of the most fertile areas in the country.... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
businesses are also becoming more accessible. Financing through government-sponsored lending programs such as the 7(a) General Business Loan Guaranty program, the Certified Development Company (504) loan program, and the Microloan View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of liberalism, he looked not only to the works of great thinkers but also to their reception and use amid revolution and interstate competition. His innovative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
18th Airborne Corps Rapid Deployment Force, joined PepsiCo's Leadership Development Program (LDP). For her first assignment with PepsiCo, Johnson accepted a position as a manufacturing manager at a Frito-Lay plant in Williamsport,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
2003. Looks back on the reasons for Ericsson's current situation and the recent restructuring programs that cut the company's staff and operating expenses in half. Presents Svanberg's vision for how to re-energize the ailing company and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace