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- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
schools and peak the interest of what may become a "Moneyball Generation" of managers and analysts who want to divine and track new measures that explain View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
words of HBS professor emeritus Theodore Levitt. "He said, ŒBe unique, don't compete. If you can get yourself into a dominant position where you have price flexibility, do it, because you'll be a lot happier not having to worry about... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
"triple bottom line." The authors posit (but do not prove) that organizations that satisfy all 3 criteria in their decision-making will realize greater economic success than those that fulfill only... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?
$50 billion price tag, he said he wanted to see the visible benefit. "If we believe that educational performance is a result of investment, it hasn't paid off," he said. "We have to look at... View Details
- March 2014
- Article
Why China Can't Innovate
By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan
A look at how innovation is happening in China—from the top down, from the bottom up, through acquisition, and through education. Sheds light on the complexities of the issue, highlighting the promise and the problems China faces in its quest to become the world's... View Details
Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan. "Why China Can't Innovate." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 3 (March 2014): 107–111.
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of... View Details
- 23 Sep 2015
- News
Carly Fiorina is corporate culture incarnate
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
navigate conflicts both external and internal. Today, more than ever, markets exert continual pressure on organizations to cut costs and return capital to the bottom line, but building value demands that... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
requirement. We are running around in a trillion-dollar industry at the bottom of the bottom View Details
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
tremendous. Beyond that, at the outset, there was some mutual antagonism and posturing; the scientists assuming MBAs only care about the bottom... View Details
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
used to make better decisions without the influences described above. It's why, for example, some successful investors simply choose stocks of the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
SUMMING UP: Is collective pride the primary contributor to organization arrogance? There are three things that many respondents to this month’s column can agree on: (1) Pride is an attractive trait among members View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
The Case Method | MBA
Inaugural HBS Case “How do you go into an ambiguous situation and get to the bottom of it? That skill – the skill View Details
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
accountability. Focused tightly on the bottom line, these companies don't know how to quantify the value of legacy functions, which often evolve... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leader, know thyself
- 07 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?
most of their profit from fees paid by sellers; buyers don't pay fees. So although buyers are a necessary ingredient to the deal—no buyers, no sellers—their value is more difficult to quantify. To View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership Lessons from the Basketball Court
Chrissie Gorman (MBA 2012) created PowerForward with Duke basketball legend Coach K. to bring leadership and team-development lessons from sports to the business world. In this video, she explains the ground... View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Raising the bar to provide quality education
my husband and I—he’d been involved from the beginning at ARK—we moved to California and decided we wanted to help children in our backyard there. We serve a population of low-income, mostly minority... View Details
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
Or when organization development efforts are curtailed? Or when knowledge development is subcontracted to an army of "free agents?" Or when employees are discouraged from engaging in too much "water cooler time" in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett