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- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
automobile. Spar: At HBS we think a lot about educating leaders for both business and society. I think this is another area where history can be really critical. When you think about leadership it's not all that useful to consider it... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
When it comes to emergency preparedness for pandemics, the World Health Organization is falling short. It has not provided prompt and clear leadership to the world in combating either the Ebola or Zika viruses. Its leadership has been low... View Details
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
When health insurer Cigna Corp. appeared in front of a judge for allegedly misleading shareholders on Medicare regulations this spring, plaintiffs thought they had a strong case. After all, Cigna had published its own document titled... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
consumers were that deregulation: (1) unleashes the power of a self-correcting free market (Jeff Struck), giving customers services at prices they are willing to pay and quality levels that they are willing to pay for (at least in the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
change the very system that has caused poverty in poor countries in the first place. Here again the profit motive would come into play. The WDC would not only provide jobs and raise incomes, it would also... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
to remain working left because they could not reconcile the obligations of the career path they were on with caring for kids. Caregiving, along with higher education and healthcare delivery, has among the highest real-dollar increase... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
What is consumer empowerment and what does it mean for you as an executive? HBS professor Luc Wathieu outlined his views in the following e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace.Lagace: View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 02 May 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?
often in a one-size-fits-all manner. "leadership can be learned quickly and easily." "leadership can be codified and summarized and packaged." "leadership is a profession for which a professional View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
Summing Up Is Our Thinking About Work Outmoded? In spite of contrary evidence, there is still a popular belief that working more hours produces more results. People too often assume that being "at work" is equivalent to... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
Interestingly, what I think we're arguing in the end is that innovation and commitments to research and development and high levels of tertiary education can, to an important extent, although not entirely,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
lot of education that could go on from the business world to the churches in terms of "You know, this isn't as scary as it looks." There are some hard decisions that have to be made. One is just... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
introduced the Kindle, the first electronic reader with wireless functionality. The case describes the launch of the Kindle and provides information on representative players in the industry (or broader ecosystem) who are likely to be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
educating our employees to recognize symptoms of 'poor health' so that they are able to self-identify themselves to their managers?" And Ulysses U. Pardey said, "(In their training, doctors) are in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
order to accelerate their expansion efforts, Jump Start, an early childhood education program that pairs college students with pre-schoolers struggling in Head Start, began entering into affiliate... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
to figure out how to distribute HBS cases more widely in Japan and how to translate those cases into Japanese so that Japanese business schools can adopt them. There is growing interest in management View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
entirely in the future. However, because stock research is a time-intensive effort, and we all have limited time, the more likely outcome is that educated investors like our students will consume sell-side... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
received a grant from the Mellon Foundation to further their work for educational environments. I doubt that nonprofit foundations will define the future of software development, but all evidence would indicate that they will continue to... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
close proximity to one another, frequenting the same restaurants, and speaking a language of their own? They represent a classic "cluster" from the world of competitive strategy. But are they denied exposure to consumers who are different from them View Details