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- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
mental flexibility that enables a manager to negotiate, adapt, and modify the layers of competitive advantage and various strategic imperatives that are part of any multinational company. "We talk about building a matrix into the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
concept of a learning organization is one that is "skilled at creating, acquiring, interpreting, transferring, and retaining knowledge and at purposefully modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights." Although... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 02 May 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?
unless they are willing to question their values, manage their motivation, modify their behavior, and challenge and change their very identities." Kapil Kumar Sopory punctuated this thought with the comment, "It is high time our... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Web
Social Media Guidelines for Faculty and Staff | About
modify or delete it. Audience : Be careful what you share online. Many social networking websites are not secure, and information is available to anyone with access to a computer and the internet. Association : Keep in mind that on many... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
allow it to offer better (higher) prices to consumers on its buy side and so on in a virtuous cycle." —Associate Professor Andrei Hagiu "[I suggest] a modified TOMS Shoes model. From the customer/end-user side: When they want to sell... View Details
- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
modified to “the right person at the right time in the right place.” It is really hard to know what a good match is or who the right person is in advance. Otherwise, there would be no divorces or painful separations. In many cases, it is... View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
model of financial innovation, in which intermediaries engineer securities with cash flows that investors seek, but modify two assumptions. First, investors (and possibly intermediaries) neglect certain unlikely risks. Second, investors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
that the corporate social network had disrupted hierarchical structures and that the site was overloaded with information. To begin to remedy these problems, Høylie’s team modified the group architecture and issued guidance for platform... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
find emissions to be less under cap-and-trade, with technology choice driving the vast majority of the difference. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-079.pdf Lords of the Harvest: Third-Party Signaling and Regulatory Approval of Genetically View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
this e-mail interview. Sean Silverthorne: Why should OSS ever displace traditional software? Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pankaj Ghemawat: One main advantage of open source software is that because users can modify the code directly (as... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
issues," he beams, "from land reform in Mexico to the development of the genetically modified tomato." "The genetic research revolution is changing our global economy and society more dramatically than any other single... View Details
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
think the social media company is biased, but its action still reduces the potential for a bad outcome. General: For example, “don’t eat GMOs.” With a more general expression, such as a post that genetically modified foods are... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
qualities, achieved through the controversial technology of genetic modification. Genetically modified foods, also known as GMOs, are a confusing topic for consumers. In the United States, 95 percent of the soybeans and 85 percent of the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
companies, although it was ultimately deferred for companies with market caps of less than $75 million and made permanent in the Dodd-Frank Act. Audit standards also were modified in 2007, a change that reportedly reduced costs for many... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
to their specific needs—e.g., insurance for long-term care and drugs; easy access to integrated teams that specialize in treating chronic diseases and disabilities; pre-tax savings accounts for uninsured health care needs, such as hearing aids and support in View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
genetically modified corn to manufacture it, and only consumers in locations with municipal composting facilities could compost this packaging. Most of the company’s compostable plastic would wind up in landfills, or even worse, consumers... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
that historically made up a significant share of ballet, symphony, opera, and theater audiences. "What do you do is the big question," Levy said. "It gets at a central tension. Do you modify your programs to attract a young... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
understood or utilized in practice. It consists of actions to set up and modify the architecture of the negotiation itself — that is, to determine who takes part under what expectations, the sequence in which they are brought into the... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation
After supervising and confirming the successful breaching of a preponderance of the obstacles, Major Gurfein was directed to drastically modify the systematic schedule of obstacle reduction in order to support I MEF’s accelerated time... View Details