Meaning In Life - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

In an AI-world, leaders who speak technology’s language gain an edge. But that doesn’t mean every manager needs a computer science degree. A handle on a handful of basics goes a long way toward preparing... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

27 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

accounting have to do with improving patient outcomes in Haiti? HBS faculty members discuss their research and what it means for patients, providers, and industries. A Good Place to Start Clayton Christensen... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

03 Jul 2018
What Do You Think?

Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?

punish families seeking safety.“ In the meantime, McKinsey quietly announced it would not pursue further contracts with ICE. There are many ramifications to any effort to establish moral leadership, either View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

at once validating, exciting, and maddening for Elkins. “I had spent years of my life trying to put these pieces together, and they had been sitting on these files all this time,” she says. As expert witness, Elkins was charged with... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

commercialize remarkable technological breakthroughs like the genome. There are also enormous questions about what the proper regulatory structure will be: Who owns a gene? Who owns the right to determine what I can do with my genes? These kinds of questions get to the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

19 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

practices are presented and how consumers may communicate their preferences. The consequence has been a chilling of the market for personal information, with consumers less willing to provide their information in the first place. This is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

implies: Promoting better oversight by national parliaments, who frequently have little information on what the Bank is doing in their countries. The World Bank's founding articles of agreement prohibit it from involvement View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

PeopleImages In 2012, federal court jurors listened as Ani Chopourian described the sexual harassment she endured as a cardiac surgery physician assistant at a Sacramento hospital. One surgeon greeted her each morning with “I’m horny” and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Emerging Art of Negotiation

The first group is more likely to resort to competition and problem solving in the negotiation, while the second prefers more indirect means of arriving at a solution. Less research attention to date has... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

By "public" we mean that senior managers need to keep everyone three to four levels below them informed about what has been learned, as well as what changes are planned. When people hear "honest," they tend to think... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

wins were more frequently associated with the positive emotions and intrinsic motivation that in turn generated the creativity needed to develop innovative approaches to problems. That doesn't mean that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 May 2007
What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

proactively seek out the doctor . A good manager needs to get more involved in 'preventative medicine .'" Akhil Mehta, before observing similarities, pointed out that " human life is almost never... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

often see staged financing in new venture situations. The fourth is sources of financing. While traditional finance courses have focused on classic corporate financing options, we introduce venture capital, angel investors, strategic... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

professor he continued to write, teach, and serve as case-method éminence grise for a number of years. His influential book Education for Judgment, edited with David Garvin and Ann Sweet, was published in 1992. Until the closing months of... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

variable analysis and use the differences in the likelihood of retirement driven by Social Security retirement incentives in the United States to find a sizable increase in... View Details

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

The more fundamental question that firms and policy makers need to be thinking about is just what type of good is software?—Siobhán O'Mahony Similar issues surface in the biotechnology world, where university and market conceptions of the... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

20 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

Michael Beer and his coauthors at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, the executives underscored the importance of higher-ambition goals, including engaging with and developing employee and customer commitment, contributing to the community View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’

book excerpt Firms As Actors From Chapter 1 Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World By Geoffrey Jones Entrepreneurs and firms have been important actors in the making of our modern global... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones

01 Jun 2021
What Do You Think?

Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?

willing and able to train new employees in large numbers will have an advantage in this kind of war for talent." That means that we can expect a flood of capable people, mostly... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

learning and advice when members are already embedded in existing networks,” Koning and coauthor Sharique Hasan of Duke University argue in Prior ties and the limits of peer effects on startup team... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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