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- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
foundations have been successful in garnering donations of hardware and equipment when needed, but do not have vast reserves to support legal expenses, travel, or conferences. However, since these foundations are primarily electronically View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 25 Oct 2006
- Op-Ed
Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance
tremendous given the amounts of wealth involved. Rawlsian options would keep the fox out of the hen house but keep the fox hungry. Such a solution preserves the virtues of options and only sacrifices some information sharing. Options still function as powerful... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
mission." The panelists added, though, that success can be difficult to measure in the nonprofit sector, especially compared to the financial gains of a for-profit start-up. "There's a real problem of figuring out what View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
Professor David M. Upton is the faculty chair of BCAO. He spoke with an Executive Education staff member about the course.EE: How do you define the term "operations"? Upton: "Operations" constitutes all of the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
it to be an overreach of constitutional commerce powers. Yet the fair trade movement later won some victories in the Supreme Court, including a decision to uphold a New York state law that fixed milk prices for farmers, dealers, and... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
skill matches, meaning that, for instance, a savvy cost-cutter was hired into a company where cost management would turn out to be the key driver of success. The other eleven constituted mismatches. When the strategic need matched the... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?
trading block in the world. Financial markets had been complacent and were caught off guard by an early morning earthquake that affected most traded asset classes around the globe. Prime Minister David Cameron announced his resignation, ushering in a political and... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
licensors and licensees tend to have differing opinions about what constitutes "fair" and "reasonable." Hence the spate of recent lawsuits. For instance, last September a federal jury ruled in favor of Microsoft and... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
strategies at different geographic levels. Assessing the level—global, continental, subcontinental, national, intranational, or local—at which scale is most tightly tied to profitability is often a helpful guide to determining what View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
heroes of these large successful corporations, in spite of their dysfunctional 'leadership'." Today's leadership heroes, however, stimulated debate about just what constitutes leadership. It is an important discussion, as several... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
should ever walk into an office and have the door closed or feel she has to show up alone to a hotel room?” Companies should also provide employees with extensive training about what constitutes sexual harassment—and they need to go... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Mar 2007
- Op-Ed
Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity
collaborative practices constituted an anticompetitive conspiracy. The judge observed that activities the government depicted as nefarious were "nothing more nor less than a gradual, natural, and normal growth or evolution by which... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
thought of as a school, and the problems that managers have confronted within it constitute the "curriculum" that was offered in that school. The skills that managers can be expected to have and lack, therefore, depend heavily... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
personality and values, said Arnold. Different strategic options emerged. While the results are still rolling in, Arnold and Schroiff agreed upon two main lessons of the Henkel experience: The persuasive elements that constitute the brand... View Details
- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
PublicationsAuctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications Authors:Peter Coles, Sanmay Das, Sébastien Lahaie, and Boleslaw Szymanski Publication:Second International ICST Conference, AMMA 2011 Abstract This book constitutes the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
constitute the apex of competition by individuals and countries in hundreds of events (302 in London, to be exact), involving sports that may be very popular in one part of the world and virtually unfollowed in another. The common thread... View Details
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
defined, more traditional innovations. So, while it is not impossible, it is less likely that large and successful companies will be the setting for the development of the kinds of novel combinations of business and social ideas that View Details
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
constitute both a carrot (such as subsidies) and stick (taxes)? Just how should the free market be put to work on the challenge? Should limits be set and a market created for tradable "energy credits," as in cap-and-trade... View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
the world about the problems they thought might constitute material threats to the sustainability of market capitalism. As part of Harvard Business School's centennial celebration a few years ago, we convened groups of business leaders in... View Details
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details