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- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsDeveloping Leaders Harvard Business School Note 407-015 Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407015 Merton's Ethos of Science: Excerpts and Summaries Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
behind Marketing Metaphoria and how insights about deep metaphors can improve brand success. Martha Lagace: What are deep metaphors? Gerald Zaltman and Lindsay Zaltman: Deep metaphors are basic frames or orientations we have toward the... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
appears afterward. Martha Lagace: It's a clever idea to tell your story through the fictional character of Jim Barton, a fledgling CIO. Why describe CIO challenges through fiction? Rob Austin, Dick Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell: Our... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
professionals may be confronted with a sense of psychological impasse and how they can free themselves. Martha Lagace: What sorts of thoughts, feelings, and images do people experience when they face an impasse? Timothy Butler: First,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
revenue, which is also difficult for a public company to do. About the Author Martha Lagace is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: metamorworks] Book Excerpt Launch: Solve the “Chicken-or- Egg”... View Details
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- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
to support these sets of well-meaning folks who are trying to do the right thing." Tufano was invited to describe his work for HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: How did you get interested in studying different vehicles for savings?... View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
done things. Let’s never try anything new.” In short, what you need throughout your organization are creative constructors. Videos: Gary Pisano's Three Key Lessons about Corporate Innovation View Video View Video View Video Martha View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
You need checks and balances. The trust we have in our system—we shouldn’t weaken it. That actually will end up hurting us. About the Author Martha Lagace is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image:... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
By day, managers run themselves ragged worrying about their A players: their stars, their rainmakers, their top 15 percent. By night, the same managers fret over their C players—their bottom 15 percent of staff. The C players are those employees, incompetent by... View Details
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- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
Why in the world would anyone take the time to write complicated software programs for free? It's a good question, one that has piqued the curiosity of a number of economists, who wonder what benefits, if any, lie behind the burgeoning "open source" movement... View Details
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
People achieve success in the early years of their career by specializing and becoming functional experts—in essence, they succeed by knowing more and more about less and less, says Benjamin C. Esty, chair of the General Management Program at Harvard Business School.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
Finding and nurturing future leadership talent is a primary concern for most organizations. How can they identify top people, train them, and—here's the catch—retain them? And do so in the face of ever-increasing global challenges? Harvard Business School professors W.... View Details
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- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
What used to be rare is now commonplace: traveling abroad to receive medical treatment, and to a developing country at that. So-called medical tourism is on the rise for everything from cardiac care to plastic surgery to hip and knee replacements. As a recent Harvard... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
Some events mark a generation. If a marker is a source of deep learning about ourselves, as Malcolm Salter believes it is, then the Enron crisis is exactly that for business people. Political scientists have the Bay of Pigs; engineers have the Challenger disaster. And... View Details
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- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How To Do Business in Islamic Countries
The business scene in the Islamic world may be as complex as its 1.3 billion people, but one rule is nevertheless quite straightforward for Westerners who want to do deals. "One thing you do not bring up is the Palestinian-Israeli situation," advised Samuel... View Details
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- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
economists," he continues, "we have to understand folk ideas about what we can do in the market better than we do. They're a big issue. And that's not to say that economists are the ones who are necessarily right." Roth recently elaborated on repugnance... View Details
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- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
She recently discussed their findings with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: You're an expert on creativity who has examined it deeply for many years. What inspired you this time to look at it through the lens of leader behavior?... View Details
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- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
competing platforms are better for consumers than a single aggregate platform. About the Author Martha Lagace is a writer based in Boston. [Image: nimis69] Related Reading Is Business Management a... View Details
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
The cult of the CEO is complex and persistent—and usually not good for business, says HBS professor Rakesh Khurana. Khurana recently fielded questions from HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace