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- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
and do it more efficiently, over time. Richard E. Beville should know. The chief operating officer of Lamont Digital Systems, a Greenwich, Conn., provider of digital telecommunications services, Beville started his career in the Bell... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
potential use of power, and motives. As Matthew Tuttle suggested, "Many of the traits are ... difficult to see in an interview." One answer to the challenge was suggested by Kirk Richardson: "There is only one true way to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
Summing Up This month's column appears to have struck a chord with those who lament the continuing loss of implicit knowledge buried inside the heads of experienced leaders (termed "deep smarts" by Dorothy Leonard and Walter... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Feb 2002
- What Do You Think?
Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?
Queda" (Mike Donahue). Among the many commenting on the Enron case, nearly all felt that change was warranted, but few believed that significant change would come from it. The general sense of these comments was that investors, by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
If one thing has been made clear by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is this: The health care system in the United States (and most other nations) is not set up to respond to a large-scale medical emergency that affects tens of thousands of... View Details
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
relevant, one should identify it, try to activate it, and then leverage it," says Greyser, Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. "All brands have a history, many brands have a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
from an alumnus to the president of The Ohio State University at the time, demanding a reprimand or worse. How times change. Of course, a few years later, president Richard Nixon embarked on his momentous trip that literally changed the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
three on their list of concerns. That’s the surprising finding in a new survey of boards of directors conducted by Harvard Business School professor Boris Groysberg and doctoral student Yo-Jud Cheng. “The concerns that ranked at the top... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
also demonstrated a base of support in their cities for system-wide change. We discussed the program in this e-mail Q &A with Childress and Allen Grossman, who is the HBS faculty chair for the program. Childress, Grossman, and coauthor View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
directly to negotiations," says Wheeler, whose own background is in law and policy analysis. "I'm not speaking metaphorically. By emulating what jazz masters do, we all can become better negotiators." Indeed, the late diplomat View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
privatization garners attention in industries whose importance, infrastructure, and enormous capital needs once put them under the comfortable control of their governments. Historically, observed HBS professor Richard Vietor in his... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
Australia, South Africa, Chile, etc.). Q: What do you see as the major differences between Old World and New World winemakers? A: The Old World market continues to be highly fragmented. The competitive landscape is filled with many small, privately held wineries, owned... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
digital platform, and the increased fiscal pressures created by the worldwide economic crisis. Unfortunately, the educational programs for future health care leaders fail to provide many of the needed skills, according to a survey of CEOs... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
discussion from one point to the next—are remembered often by the legions of MBA students, doctoral candidates, and faculty members Christensen taught during an HBS career that spanned half a century, from the 1940s until his death in... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
By the end of the second spin-off regime, Xerox's position in the copier market had begun to improve. While its share of the market would never return to 80 percent levels, Xerox was able to regain more than ten market share points,... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
submitted, from managing a remote workforce to making decisions in the face of vast uncertainty. Not surprisingly, one significant challenge reported by many CEOs was how to position their company to survive, or even thrive, during the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
HBS Working Knowledge recently celebrated its tenth birthday, and we mark the occasion by looking back and looking forward. We've asked HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and a number of faculty to both remark on what they view as the most significant... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
High on every agenda as well, of course, is the use and impact of technology, and that was the focus of a Global Alumni Conference session hosted by HBS professor Richard Nolan. Titled "Technology and... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
lifestyle, these other products can add brand value and, being produced by others under license, they deliver some extra profit to the Trump organization. "In the world of representative democracy, you have to be the market share... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
Herzlinger: I've had it. [Laughs.] Just had it! You know, I did my doctoral thesis really by accident in a hospital. That was in 1971, 36 years ago. And at the time, I was astonished at how mismanaged that hospital was and how the most... View Details