Goals and Objectives - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Feb 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business

mistakes should I watch out for in starting a new company? Should I Keep Control Of My Company? Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want? It's a fundamental tension many entrepreneurs face, the conflict between wanting to become rich and... View Details

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

address corruption by self-reporting their experiences online. Since corruption flourishes where information is murky, the goal is transparency, leveraging the ubiquity and anonymity of the Internet. People... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

05 Jul 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?

destruction and even universal death. (Of course, this could trigger other dilemmas.) For example, at Google there is a task force (Calico) whose objective is to develop the means for people to live... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

08 May 2020
Research & Ideas

We’ve Now Been Asking “What Do You Think?” for 20 Years

This month marks the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of my “What do you think?” column. The Working Knowledge website was the brainchild of a faculty and staff committee organized in 2000 by then Dean Kim Clark to communicate the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

appropriabilty, Ahuja offers advice as well. "Push for stretch goals in innovation," he says. Under pressure to produce in a short period of time, research teams are necessarily forced to go back View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

website. If consumers don’t trust the service providers who are active on the platform, they won’t go there and the platform won’t get any revenues. So, a platform’s interests are very aligned with the government View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

07 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?

This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

Summing Up What's rational in the world of management? Judging from replies to the question, "Are you ready to manage in an irrational world?," respondents to this column are ready. But they also conclude that the question is much more complex View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

03 May 2021
What Do You Think?

Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?

Wittenberg questioned the implied premise that good leaders should make good teachers: “Teaching has a specific meaning. Leadership has a specific meaning that is different Teaching and leadership have different goals. When I teach, my... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

restructuring as the process through which a company radically changes the contractual relationships that exist among its creditors, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders. The goal of restructuring... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?

basement doesn’t help us remember. Beshears and colleagues tracked 1,801 employees of a health benefits administrator, Express Scripts, during the 2011-2012 flu season. Their goal was to determine whether... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

includes practical details on how to facilitate the course, templates for grading class participation and the course paper, and conceptual overviews of topics such as how "morality" is defined in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

Would-be innovators know that one of their biggest challenges is systematically identifying the innovations with the greatest likelihood of creating disruptive growth. Pick the wrong one, and squander a year or more of focus View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

08 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

are being given when they are charged with controlling and managing society's most precious resources. Fourth, it is critical to restore a goal of professionalization in business schools View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

24 May 2010
Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

Recent research at Harvard Business School began with the premise that as a state's congressional delegation grew in stature and power in Washington, D.C., local businesses would benefit from the increased federal spending sure to come... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2017
HBS Case

This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

of both their consumers and regulators. “Usually, with debt collection, the object is to dial for dollars—collect as much as you can in the first phone call, and then outsource... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

three projects: Debian, a complete non-commercial distribution of Linux; the GNU Object Model Environment (GNOME), which is a graphical user interface for Linux-based operating systems; and Apache, a public... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

information between inside and outside, they are seldom mere passive messengers carrying out the instructions of their principals. According to this negotiator: The traditional model [of the process] is that the leadership sets the goals,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

computer consulting firm specializing in e-commerce; Akal Security Company; and natural food enterprises such as the Yogi Tea Company), for which he serves as executive vice president. "Our goal is to... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

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