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- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
life and gives consumers the product quality they expect. Observing this decision from a distance and out of context, a skeptic might question Gotham Greens’ commitment to its... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen is living proof of the adage "If you want to get something done, ask a busy person." Throughout a distinguished career that has included often-overlapping leadership roles in business, teaching, public service, View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 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 using a multidisciplinary approach to "assist the food... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
Radiation therapy can be lifesaving for lung cancer patients. The first step, though, is having a trained, skilled oncologist who knows how to best segment or mark off the tumor for radiation. This expertise is vital for targeting the tumor View Details
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
2017, well before the COVID-19 pandemic increased remote work. “Two individuals have the same job and are doing the exact same kind of work. The only thing that changed is the temporal distance.” First, the team explored how being in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
experimentation will improve performance over time. However, the benefits of experimentation vary. Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics Which managerial skills, traits, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
economy and have no safety net and virtually no hope of moving upward." "Globalization has helped emerging economies distribute their products View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
quality targets." "We assume that when we can see something, we understand it better," Bernstein says. "In this particular environment, and perhaps many others, what managers were seeing... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
It's a startling idea: Instead of relying on regulators to protect our privacy against telemarketers, data miners, and consumer companies, we should capitalize on the value of our personal information and... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
Teradyne: Testing Opportunity In 1994, Teradyne, a leading provider of machines that test the quality of microprocessors and other integrated circuits as they come off the assembly line, saw an opportunity... View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
What strategy do you use when making complex decisions? Do you burn the midnight oil to carefully weigh the pros and cons of each alternative? Or do you take your mind off the decision and follow the age-old... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
3,100 employees were displaced. Company president Aaron Feuerstein immediately announced plans to rebuild the company—and to keep all the displaced employees on the payroll in the meantime. The media hailed him as a mensch. But in making sure the new construction would... View Details
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
determination demanded of Jim Collins' Level V leaders in his Good to Great study? No matter how important these qualities may be to future success, are employees and investors still going to look for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
globe which match (this) School of Management and produce high quality talent." Winfried Hermann Schoepf expressed concerns about whether we will be admiring Google's approach to management in the... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
protect our children, our elderly, and our scarce resources. Over the past few decades, we have raised our standard of living, but not necessarily the quality of our lives. Real estate View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
food they consumed to the jobs they took. Environmental quality does behave like a luxury good.— Forest L. Reinhardt All that has changed, partly due to alarming disasters such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
resources enhances the quality of deal structure for entrepreneurial ventures and thus the likelihood of venture survival, particularly in tough times when cash is tight. "Taken comprehensively, the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
jockeying for position, observed Hugh Langmuir, a Paris-based director of Cinven. Hampered by high labor costs, Western Europe is also feeling the pinch of competition from the Far East, especially China, Langmuir said. It is hard to match the costs View Details
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
Donald Trump has not issued an official platform on student debt, although he has referenced reducing college costs and lowering interest rates on student loans. Hillary Clinton has offered a variety of proposals. Echoing Bernie Sanders,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
Sawyer adds, “Gleason and others argued that their version of fair trade—albeit domestic oriented—offered higher wages, better services, and quality guarantees.” Prior to... View Details