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01 Sep 2006
News

Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered

it is a standard piece of the litany of management practice,” HBS professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser told the Boston Globe. “He wanted to be lively, he wanted to be provocative, but most of all, he wanted the power of the ideas to come... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

capital to the best ideas, weeding out the bad ones. Investors have the challenge of sorting through the overwhelming number of ideas to discern the good ones, a process compared to finding a needle in a haystack. They often lack the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

Profile

Kiran Gandhi

more critically about unmet needs in the music industry. For example, I loved learning about “blue ocean” strategy, the idea that you can make competition irrelevant by innovating in new market spaces that are ripe for growth. This year,... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media

06 Jun 2008
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

behaviors. As a result, for example, four in five product introductions perform below expectations. The Zaltmans expand on ideas they have been studying for some years, namely that strategies of all kinds can be based on insights gained... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

Portrait Project

Cali Tran

When my mother closed her eyes and jumped from the Saigon docks onto a puttering fishing boat 30 years ago, she had no idea where life was going to take her. "What choice did I have?" she would often retort when asked about our... View Details

25 Aug 2014
News

Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983

colleagues to invest in a regional cellular company. “I knew it was a good investment, but I had no idea mobile would reach 100 percent market penetration,” he says. Interested in building media companies with like-minded partners, Nelson... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

14 Jun 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia

good for humankind," said the Dean. "If you look at the billions of people lifted out of poverty, the standard of living we have created, the kinds of jobs we've created it all came from the enormous force for good that is business." This powerful View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

other area is it more important to have a sense of what you don't know than it is in IT management. The most dangerous advice to CEOs has come from people who either had no idea of what they did not know, or from those who pretended to... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

02 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

April 14, 2017 Harvard Business Review Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It By: Deighton, John A. Abstract—United Airlines has pledged to improve its training programs and empower its employees to put customers first... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Sep 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios

Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Luis M. Viceira

14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

environments. CEOs have little idea what to expect in terms of health care policy, financial transactions, national security, and global trade—all of vital importance to themselves, their employees, and their stakeholders. Managerial... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

other words, what you know, not what title you have in the organization that matters. "We argue about issues, not the people who advocate them" was another of Grove's beliefs. Once again, this is the opposite of his experience in Hungary, where people were... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

things I said or did that contributed to the defensiveness of the client?", "Was my presentation of ideas and arguments clear and persuasive?", or "Did my analysis fall short in some way that led the client to have... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

the core, and pivot to new opportunities. We provide a top-level overview of major topics and ideas relevant to each concept. We hope you are interested in engaging in further research about any topics that resonate with you and your... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

suggests that government-funded patents are more important, reinforcing the idea of government-funded innovation as a driver for the economy,” Yao says. Who benefits from government funding? Companies, which filed the vast majority of the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Oct 2021
Blog Post

8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

help to quiet that voice in someone else's head that questions who they are.” David Robertson (he/him), Class of 2023 “One of my favorite aspects of the LBGTQ+ community is the concept of chosen family, which is the idea that people can... View Details

17 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

Stagflation? A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image:... View Details