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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
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
e-mail Q&A with HBS Working Knowledge. (An excerpt follows from his new book, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis.) Martha Lagace: What leadership gaps do you see today in business and society? Bill George: I wrote 7 Lessons for Leading... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
Are auditors becoming too big to fail? For over a decade, there have been articles and op-eds in the popular and business press arguing that the auditing industry, currently dominated by Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PwC, is a tightening... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
What are the first things you should do in your new post? In this e-mail Q&A, Michael Watkins offers strategies that he researched while preparing his new book, The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels (HBS Press, 2003). View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team
star players as well as their managers. Groysberg and Lee explained more in this interview with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: Let's begin with the key question you ask in your paper: Who "owns" top performance:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
How to Prevent Them, Bazerman and Watkins recently collaborated on the following e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: What distinguishes a predictable surprise from any event seen with 20/20 hindsight? Max Bazerman... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
therefore facilitates implementation," says Roberto, who teaches in the School's General Management unit. An e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge follows. Martha Lagace: Why should a leader be concerned when he or she hears... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace, Deighton explains how it continues to carve out territory in the marketplace.Lagace: Were you surprised that Webvan failed? Deighton: No. The purpose of writing the case was to have classes explore... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
"When Values Backfire: Leadership, Attribution, and Disenchantment in a Values-Driven Organization." "Our research shows that values must be managed with care," Cha and Edmondson say. Below, they join forces for an e-mail Q&A with HBS Working... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
good, seeing them as complementary and not in opposition. "Public health defined as a public good has accomplished many wonderful things, but in order to make a quantum leap, redefining it as a private good has great potential." Chu spoke recently with HBS... View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
of Pennsylvania, is codirector of the Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management. An excerpt from their book follows our interview. Martha Lagace: In a nutshell, what is rocket science retailing? Ananth Raman: It means... View Details
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
Marx—who holds six patents—spent ten years as an inventor and executive in the field of speech recognition. In this e-mail interview, he discusses the impact of noncompetes for inventors and those who would tie their hands. Martha Lagace:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
organization and its employees. Podolny, Khurana, and Hill-Popper collaborated on an e-mail interview to explain their latest research for HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: As you wrote in your working paper, the past century saw a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
indigenous companies and investors in emerging markets worldwide. Palepu and Khanna joined forces for our Q&A. Martha Lagace: Why study emerging markets? Krishna G. Palepu: Emerging markets are the growth engine for most Western... 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
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
Internet-connected televisions, social media, and the power of simplicity were all cited as launch pads for future innovation in technology, according to a panel of experts that convened at Harvard Business School as part of the HBS Centennial Business Summit in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
Citizens, industrial polluters, and scholars do not usually see eye to eye—but that may change with a new Web site that monitors corporate environmental performance in the United States. According to the university professors who created it, MapEcos (mapecos.org) is a... View Details
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
When TV Nova launched in 1992 as the first new television channel in post-communist Czechoslovakia, few might have imagined the joint-venture drama unfolding behind the scenes. Distinguished for bringing Baywatch, soccer matches, and sexy weather forecasters to the... View Details