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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
A host of organizations — among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines — have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
redress of the imbalance of returns to labor, capital, and consumers is needed in many parts of the world. What is the answer? Is it government action through such things as minimum wage legislation? Is it new legislation to enable labor... View Details
- 18 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity
interests with the institution, thinking "I am the institution." In doing so, they head for a fall—often taking their organizations down with them. Meanwhile, the public loses trust in them, View Details
- 28 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative
When Harvard Business School launched its Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) in 1993-1994, few academic institutions were conducting serious research and teaching about how to create social value through the nonprofit, private, View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
would advocate a discontinuation of operations after attempting unsuccessfully to resist meeting government demands for private information. Some suggested more complex strategies. Among those in favor of staying View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
is developing stem cell products to treat cancer, genetic disorders, and immune deficiencies. Keep Business Model Fluid "Know your timing," advised Susan Willet Bird, founder and president of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
a project to a small group of people who are amateurs, who do the project part-time and act as a committee. It doesn't demand management time and resources, and you haven't... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced
usual methodology of studying organizations in a particular industry or geography, Zhang went wide and deep. He developed a longitudinal sample of 1,069 leading public firms in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
conclude that I understood leadership pretty well, I've begun to wonder. Let's start with the leadership associated with large organizations with relatively long histories. In recent years, we have been educated by concepts such as MBWA... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
the most serious governance cases filed in U.S. courts by private shareholders against foreign cross-listed firms. Second, even if the SEC had the resources required to fully investigate the potentially false disclosures View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
matching system for New England, correcting public school choice programs in New York and Boston, and tackling markets for new medical residents, economists, View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
who own stock) placed their faith in leaders of their organizations in the past? And isn't this what they are asked to do under Section 404, which says little about the nature of information provided to the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
reading in a trade publication about Benihana's innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
thousands of public documents from the Department of the Interior that detailed bid price and profits from 1954 to 1975. He reported his findings in a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
invested $3.5 million and received 80 percent of the equity in the company. Becoming independent also gave the start-up organization the freedom to compete head-on with the internal Xerox development units... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
discussions. Known as the Private and Public, Scientific, Academic, and Consumer Food Policy Group (PAPSAC), the organization is dedicated to... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
latest e-commerce enterprise. And in a new MBA elective course he has developed, Large-Scale Investment, Esty examines how private firms structure, value, and finance large,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
that people in the bottom 20 percent were not just in low-paying jobs. Unusually large numbers that wanted jobs had none and hadn't had paying work for months. Couple that with the following: How many times in the past twelve months have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
Harvard Gazette spoke with Nori Gerardo Lietz, a senior lecturer who teaches real estate private equity at Harvard Business School, about what’s going on and whether rising interest rates may offer some... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
As waves of globalization wash across the business world, tremendous new opportunities for financing and investment present themselves to savvy enterprises. In a new casebook, HBS professor Mihir A. Desai discusses the numerous challenges... View Details