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- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
government in making it a success. "Particularly during the early years, the government played a critical role in shaping Silicon Valley," especially spending and funding from the U.S. Department of Defense, writes HBS professor... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
effective bond between the interviewer and the manager, which sometimes led to answers that were both thoughtful and entertaining. (Responding to a question about staff retention, for instance, one manager said, "I spend most of my... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
sufficient for firms to be operationally effective," continues Crane. "Now strategy is much more customer driven, and a firm's brand is more important than ever." Marketing that brand, in fact, has become so essential that most startups View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
closest publicly traded peers struggling with heavy debt burdens. HCA's capital allocation choices would be crucial to its ability to provide high quality health care to patients, implement its corporate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
for its commitment to improving health care outcomes and lowering costs by reducing treatment variation, made the surprising decision to invest significant resources in an innovative precision medicine unit,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
coaches not to worry, the team would take care of it. Although the charisma of leadership1 tends to be associated with larger-than-life individuals who weave inspirational spells, charisma can become a property of a whole group of people... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
associated with adult outcomes at home. Sons raised by an employed mother spend more time caring for family members than men whose mothers stayed home full time, and daughters raised by an employed mother... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
After an overview of Boston Children's Hospital and its local health care market environment, the case presents process maps and financial data relating to patients making office visits to a plastic surgeon... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
to understand the real problem that needs to be solved. Some magicians spend a lot of time considering which illusion they want to accomplish before they start working on how to accomplish the trick. Too often, managers rush to develop... View Details
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
is a sophisticated piece of medical equipment that exerts a very strong magnetic field at all times, and it's important to be very careful around it," Karmarkar says. "For example, you cannot take metal into a magnet room!"... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Publication:Academic Medicine 84, no. 12 (December 2009): 1663-1671 Abstract Recent focus on the need to improve the quality and safety of health care has created new challenges for academic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
that small businesses spend on filling out paperwork at an average of three conventional banks before securing some form of credit, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Fall 2013 Small Business Credit Survey. Upon filling... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
fail to spend sufficient time learning to understand ourselves and creating our own definition of success? The truth is, it can seem so natural and so much easier to just do what everyone else is doing-for now-leaving it for later to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
growth of a company. Not surprisingly, firms spend billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and demonstrate that these investments... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
constituencies, a preference for multilateral or bilateral interaction, the degree of planning, etc. We find that CEOs with a larger number of reports spend more time with subordinates, more time on large meetings, less time on unplanned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817064-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-021 Bayer AG: Bidding to Win Merck's OTC Business Shortly after submitting their best and final offer to acquire Merck's Consumer View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
chapter on consumption, for example, is by the late columnist William Safire, who wrote about how he came to own 38 shirts. His column is grouped with a reader's response and a set of stories about developments in the retail environment. Safire's article shines a light... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
institutionalized in America over subsequent decades in a way that has been difficult to replicate in other countries. The role of history helps to explain why. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52209 December 8, 2016 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
and prudential regulations, careful sequencing, and caution. The proposal to amend the IMF's Articles of Agreement to give the organization jurisdiction over the capital account policies of members and endow it with the purpose of... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen