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The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society

examines current policies like the Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS Act, along with the private sector's response. Read the full report - PDF View the background report - PDF Think BiGS : Industrial policy Explore insightful interviews... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Good as Our Word

interview with the BBC, Kroll readily conceded that his firm loses business when organizations shop around for—and receive—a higher rating elsewhere. “On the other hand, when our name is on something, and our name is on the line, it will... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Starvish; Bond rating; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Sep 2017
News

Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up

Review senior editor Daniel McGinn interviews athletes, entertainers, soldiers, and executives to understand the ways in which different people deal with performance anxiety. Then he turns to the research to discover why some of these... View Details

Keywords: April White; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

and to show up at interviews when invited. The government deliberately hired candidates from each group. It's too soon to gauge which group will yield the best performers, since the candidates have just started working. But the initial... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

predecessors of ABB, the global engineering giant. In a 1991 interview in Harvard Business Review, he noted that: We had no choice but to do it secretly and to do it quickly.… There were no lawyers, no auditors, no environmental... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

will emerge. 2. Listen All The Time Science writer Malcolm Gladwell interviewed two Los Angeles policemen who staked their own lives on their ability to read other people's intentions. One of the officers chose not to shoot a wild-eyed... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

10 Feb 2014
HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

platinum mine. Photo: Gautam Mukunda The authors' research for the case study comprised more than 50 hours of interviews on three continents, not to mention some applied experience; Mukunda flew to South Africa and spent a day in Anglo... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

05 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

features designed to enhance safety and effectiveness had the unintended effect of changing how men enacted their masculine identities at work. Interview and participant observation data show that the major reorientation was away from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

linkages or externalities across industries. Regional economies and clusters are analyzed at various geographic levels including states, economic areas, and metropolitan areas. Access to top-level data on the CMP is free; more in-depth information is available for a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

In our January 2 update, we featured the first part of a two-part interview with HBS professor Michael E. Porter, an internationally influential expert on strategy and competition. (Porter was recently appointed to a University... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

01 Dec 1999
News

Q & A: Herb Kohl

implement strategy. In a retail business, no matter what you decide in the office, if the people out in the stores don't execute it, your business isn't going to be worth a darn, because they're the ones who deal with your customers. So hiring and motivating the right... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

18 Sep 2008
News

HBS Olympians

Calgary Olympics and won a silver medal in figure skating in the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France. More information here. Mike Murphy (MBA 2006B) competed for Australia in men’s three-meter springboard diving at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the 1996 Atlanta... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Olympics; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

relationships to others within and outside the profession. Over a period of ten years, we conducted a study of officer identity development using Kegan's framework by conducting hundreds of interviews following Army participants from... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

interviewed share one habit: they refuse to make decisions for the entrepreneurs. Otherwise, their teaching methods vary tremendously. Learning by Doing When Michael Chiarello, founder and CEO of NapaStyle, was developing the idea for his... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

21 Dec 2022
News

HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

comment on, and summarize advice and insight on dealing with Vladimir Putin offered by former Secretaries of State Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Rex Tillerson. This presentation is based on video segments excerpted from in-depth View Details

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

mature industries, such as Swiss watchmakers and pencil makers, that have been able to reinvent themselves in the wake of radical technological change. He calls this phenomenon “technology reemergence.” Over the past eight years, he has visited bookstores in 26 states,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

The Kraft team is conducting interviews to evaluate models at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (philanthropy); at Stanford’s StartX and MIT’s Sandbox (incubator); and at Breakout Labs and Root Capital (venture philanthropy). “We’re... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

communal, but rather personal and private. “One woman wrote about gathering all the pictures of her and her ex-boyfriend, taking them to the park were they met, and tearing them up,” Norton recalled in an interview with Working Knowledge.... View Details