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- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
focus on employees and more on business and profitability." Phil Clark posited that knowledge work that deals with intangible results and hard-to-pinpoint accomplishments "just isn't as satisfying" as work used to be. John... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
Harvard Business School Professor J. Gunnar Trumbull balks at the ubiquitous idea that the concentrated power of a few billionaires controls public policy and government regulation. Exaggeration of the impact of big View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
important qualities and capabilities to be sought in a successor to Welch is moot. But as in any good Harvard Business School case discussion, hindsight provides neither a guide to the future nor necessarily the best response. With that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
In spite of the cultural and social revolution in the rise of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace (and, in South Korea, Cyworld), the business viability of these sites remains in question. While many sites are attempting... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
systematic is going on. It must have purpose; all the vigorous uploading, posting, commenting, and sharing must be generating results. We claim that the new order is, in fact, rule-governed, and the rules are the rules of play.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
March 2016 Harvard Business Review Lean Strategy By: Collis, David J. Abstract—Strategy and entrepreneurship are often seen as polar opposites. Yet the two desperately need each other: strategy without entrepreneurship is central... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
sharks can affect efforts to save them. “Negative public opinion and fear of sharks continues to hinder conservation efforts,” says Elizabeth Keenan, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit of Harvard Business School, and a co-author... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
Distributed Innovation Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Systems of distributed innovation-so-called business ecosystems-have become increasingly prevalent in many industries. These entities generally... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
of Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna, the Henry B. Arthur Fellow of business ethics at Harvard Business School. In a nutshell, the case goes like this: "Jim" accepts a summer internship as a loan... View Details
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
Getting a seat at the table often makes all the difference in the world. New research from Harvard Business School suggests that this idea holds true literally at the World Bank, where the 24 countries serving on the Board of Executive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
What makes a movie click with an audience? How important is buzz in the success or failure of an entertainment product? Should worldwide releases of movies be done over time, or all at once? Those are the kinds of questions that interest Harvard View Details
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
often garnered the respect of newer employees eager to hear the lore of those early days. “While many early employees will adjust to the scale of the business and the founders letting go of the details, some can become frustrated.”... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
care needs to go "beyond the pill" and systematically integrate combinations of treatments. We discuss the implications of this approach for organizational and business models in the pharmaceutical industry. 2006 World Politics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
perfect places to transfer and share not only information, but disease as well. From Harvard Business School, I am here to discover what the Kumbh Mela can teach me about real estate, urbanization, sustainability, and infrastructure. We... View Details
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
understudied subject of business research. After all, the economic activity generated by these deals is huge—North American M&A deals in 2011 were estimated at $450 billion. But another reason, says... View Details
- 03 Nov 2011
- What Do You Think?
The Ultimate Question in Management
thing:" trust. (There's precious little trust in government, Wall Street, and business in general these days.) I found a strong correlation between trust, loyalty, engagement, and "ownership"... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
"The Changing Structure of the Global Wine Industry," won the Best Paper award at the 2003 European Applied Business Research Conference. Roberto recently shared his thoughts on wine for HBS Working Knowledge in an e-mail... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
crises and of the response of western and central Europe to their gas dependence-I find that firms are driving these political outcomes; those firms are motivated by profits but employ sociological conventions along their ways; and firms View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
Business School. "That could be both potentially positive and negative. There is a lot of critically acclaimed artwork that could be systematically overlooked by crowds. On the other hand, you could imagine that experts aren't always good... View Details