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  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

2023, Google and Bing both launched their own versions of a chatbot for search. The AI boom was underway—and so was the AI research boom. Many predict that GenAI will change the face of business as dramatically as the rise of the internet... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • News

Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

For more than a century, HBS deans have led the School with vision and dedication: setting priorities, addressing the challenges of the day, and preparing for the future. Each... View Details
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

1980s by her physician parents, and although operating a healthcare company in Nigeria offered challenges particularly in human resources and infrastructure, by 2011, it had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July–August 2014
  • Article

Becoming a First-Class Noticer: How to Spot and Prevent Ethical Failures in Your Organization

By: Max Bazerman
We'd like to think that no smart, upstanding manager would ever overlook or turn a blind eye to threats or wrongdoing that ultimately imperil his or her business. Yet it happens all the time. We fall prey to obstacles that obscure or drown out important signals that... View Details
Keywords: Accountability; Business Ethics; Cognitive Psychology; Human Behavior; Personal Ethics In Business; Business or Company Management; Ethics
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  • 14 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

one reader in the comments section of Oprah.com. "Oprah—you should be ashamed of yourself!" “Let's replace our judgment with curiosity” Among scholars, it's called "intersectionality"—the obvious yet complex idea that gender interacts with other axes of inequality such... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

Hire an MBA: The Benefits and Misconceptions for Startups

challenge due to funding. For those that can swing it, a full-time MBA can help set structure and think through many growing pains you may encounter. For those that cannot hire someone full-time, hiring a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries; Entrepreneurship
  • May 2018 (Revised July 2018)
  • Supplement

EY China (B): An Emerging Giant

By: Ashish Nanda, Das Narayandas and Lisa Rohrer
The case outlines how regional managing partner (RMP) Albert Ng steered Ernst & Young (EY) China through a period of significant growth from 2009, when it was the smallest of the Big Four firms in China, to 2017, by when it had become the second largest firm. Partners... View Details
Keywords: Professional Services; International Management; Big Four; Strategy And Execution; Emerging Market; Strategy; Growth Management; Leadership; Global Range; Emerging Markets; Competitive Strategy; Accounting Industry; China
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  • 22 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

challenges ranging from global competition to digitization. In times past, being caught flat-footed might have set a company back several years, but it could recover. Today, the threats are existential in nature, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014

the Case for Pluralistic Risk Management The failure to rescue survivors from the sunk Russian submarine Kursk is explored by Anette Mikes and Amram Migdalpaper. Better Deals Through Level II Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping... View Details
  • Web

Getting Involved - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Strategy for Health Care Delivery course, which examines the high-level strategic and organizational challenges in implementing value-based care. This invitation-only program is designed for top management;... View Details
  • Research Summary

3. Emergence and Early Growth of a New Venture in an Unfriendly Environment: The Role of a Business Group

Abstract: How can an established organization ease the emergence and early growth of a new venture in an unfriendly environment? To answer this question, I describe and analyze the foundation and early life of two biotechnology start-ups at the... View Details

  • 02 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

George Serafeim from more than 400 senior investment professionals provides insights into why and how investors use environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information as well as the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

brick and clicks are Home Depot and Pet Smart. What did Home Depot do right? Rajiv Lal: Home Depot thought about the challenges facing their business very strategically.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

was a booklet of fifty-six pages. Changes to the Primer were regarded like alterations in the register—both were part of an effort to constantly improve and keep up with shifting customer needs. E. St. Elmo Lewis, an N.C.R. employee who... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
  • Web

Research in Black and White | Baker Library

worked like a predator, stalking a solution, a proof, with perpetual patience and perpetual energy.” (13) Morse proved equally determined and indefatigable. “A day is all too short,” she lamented to Land.... View Details
  • November 2015
  • Article

Why Organizations Don't Learn: Our Traditional Obsessions—Success, Taking Action, Fitting In, and Relying on Experts—Undermine Continuous Improvement

By: F. Gino and B. Staats
For any enterprise to be competitive, continuous learning and improvement are key—but not always easy to achieve. After a decade of research, the authors have concluded that four biases stand in the way: we focus too heavily on success, are too quick to act, try too... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Learning
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How to Get the Most Out of Peer Support Groups: A Guide to the Benefits and Best Practices

By: Boris Groysberg and Robert Russman Halperin
For years business leaders have turned to peer forums—groups of four to 10 people with similar interests who meet regularly for confidential conversations—to share their problems, find support and insights, and learn and grow. But because such forums are small and... View Details
Keywords: Peer Comparison; Support; Workplace; Peer Relationships; Personal Development and Career
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  • Fall 2020
  • Article

Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual and the End of the World as We Know It

By: Rebecca Henderson
How does one witness to businesspeople about climate change? Climate change is a problem for the collective and the long term, whereas business often requires a ruthless focus on the individual and the quarter. Climate change is an ethical catastrophe whose solution... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Business; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
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  • 24 Sep 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

“I read Playboy for the articles”: Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences

Keywords: by Zoë Chance & Michael I. Norton
  • 11 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

the world that will exist at that time. The navy is clear eyed about the challenges climate change poses. It knows that the effects of a warmer world will expand the geographic scope of its mission and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne