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07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

accounting firms fiercely lobbied Congress to block new regulations that would have limited auditors' ability to provide consulting services. Appearing at congressional hearings in 2000, accounting View Details

Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman

07 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 7

Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge Authors:Bo Becker, Guhan Subramanian, and Daniel B. Bergstresser Publication:Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We use the Business Roundtable's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

job machine started sputtering around 2000. There's something structural here, because it started before the recent downturn. Moreover, we and others discovered that virtually all the net new jobs created over the last decade were in... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

12 Jan 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

Well, at the time, I was introducing my new course Authentic Leadership Development, and one of the things we talk a lot about are crucibles that people face. Dr. King at this time was facing perhaps the greatest crucible of his life that... View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

The bottom line is, after all, the bottom line when it comes to business success. No profit, no business. But should money be the sole measure for evaluating and rewarding the effectiveness of a leader? In a new Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

collaboration to be successful. Based on new kinds of technologies such as structured data exchange, "these collaborative commerce solutions," he said, "will allow firms to plan, integrate,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

research firm Civic Science, which conducts surveys placed on news and entertainment websites. The research survey began on April 2, 2015, the day Indiana’s governor signed the revised version of the RFRA.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

21 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

& Poor's. European policymakers, in contrast, have sought to create new rules for the international system and empower international organizations, such as the EU, OECD, and IMF, to enforce them. French policymakers invented the... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Mar 2004
What Do You Think?

Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?

keep customers loyal . . . However, a customer base high in 'loyals' is a good indicator that you're doing something right." In Scott Bailey's opinion, "It seems to me that the positions . . . are really not at odds with one another . . . Treacy is suggesting... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

Microsoft, Intel, and Apple in the new book, Strategy Rules. Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do (32,083) While women and men believe they are equally able to attain high-level leadership positions, men want that power more than... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

how are they likely to shape the future for media competitors, advertisers, and their agencies? HBS professor Alvin Silk has long studied such issues, and his latest findings, presented in a new working paper, "Restructuring in the... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

07 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

While many characteristics that mark a successful entrepreneur are gender blind, being a woman does make a difference, and recognizing and utilizing those differences is an equally important quality to cultivate when building a new... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

Competition keeps you hungry. It forces you to continually find new and more cost-effective solutions to business problems. Although there's nothing new in this insight, recent research suggests some... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

02 Sep 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?

peterhowell Summing Up: Is the Current US Economic Expansion Primarily in the Hands of the Fed? New applications of technology and the expansion of the service economy may contribute to prolonged economic expansion. But they represent... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

company's commitment to sustainability mean that firms that ignore this do so at their own risk. BMW Group has been a leader in recognizing this. Several years ago, it issued a Sustainable Value Report detailing energy consumed, water... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid

legislators who decline to raise taxes and, instead, attempt to control these costs, face three choices: Cut Medicaid expenses through reductions in enrollment, benefits, and provider reimbursement; cut other state expenditures for the likes of education and roads; or... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

22 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 22

self-sorting, and manager-directed joint learning. It shows that such culture will be stronger among more important employees and in older and more successful firms where employees make important decisions and the manager has strong... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

developing employees by figuring out their passions, giving them relevant experiences to help them become more marketable, and helping them on their way when they are ready to exit. Companies can then benefit from an influx of enthusiastic View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

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