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- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
future at the same time. It is like changing the engine of a plane while it is flying. Based on almost ten years of research, this book provides a framework for companies to reimagine their business. Using rich case studies and rigorous... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
many managers overestimate the attractiveness of using IP to exert market power. Rather, the value of the various means to protect and benefit from IP depends on firm strategy, the competitive landscape, and the rapidly changing contours... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
market-listed and privately held firms in the United States using a rich new data source on private firms. Listed firms invest less and are less responsive to changes in investment opportunities compared to observably similar, matched... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
Extensive evidence indicates that physician burnout has important personal and professional consequences. Observations: A lack of awareness regarding the economic costs of physician burnout and uncertainty regarding what organizations can do to address the problem have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
becomes, which lowers the likelihood of a winner-take-all outcome. Lastly, the truly successful firms in a platform world tend to have meaningful supply-side scale economies. Markets with large economies of scale generally have higher View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
least in the short run. But with that increase of fossil fuel burning comes an ever-escalating cloud of CO2 emissions destined to linger in our atmosphere and oceans for hundreds, even thousands of years. OP-ED COLLECTION The Business of Climate View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
leadership has been associated with change. It's not about mobilizing a group to act the same way they have always acted. It has to do with changing people and their organizations so they can leap into a different and better future, no... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
What are the major barriers to implementing the changes that you’ve identified in the book: institutional or economic? Garvin: The barriers come in three categories. The first... View Details
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
leads us to undervalue risks. In addition, people overly discount the future, reducing our willingness to invest in the present to prevent some disaster that may be quite distant. People also try to maintain the status quo, creating a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Save the Dates
2004 HBS Global Leadership Forum: “From the Commanding Heights to the Market: The Changing Face of Business” Shanghai, China June 15–17, 2004 Fall 2004 Reunions/1908 Society (MBA classes that graduated sixty years ago and beyond), MBA... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
house of some one thousand participants. After attributing the giant bookseller's success to its focus on the customer, Bezos set out to debunk seven "big myths of the Internet." Myth #1: The Internet changes everything. Not really,... View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
Harris on immigration The findings reflect the constantly changing state of politics and voter behavior. In a separate piece of new research, Pons considers the array of voter participation barriers that... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
UK-based multinational, is interested in acquiring the company. Petja is hopeful that his children will instead continue to operate the family business independently. But there are barriers to that happy scenario. Katrina, the visionary... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 Sep 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: How can I negotiate more skillfully and confidently? How can I negotiate in an uncertain environment? Do... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
Andrew Kendall (MBA 1988) is on a mission to change the way New England eats. As executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, he is dedicated to creating a “resilient and healthy food... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Kathryn E. Giusti, MBA 1985
as an entrepreneur have dramatically changed the lives of many cancer patients, including her own. By expediting research on multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable blood cancer with one of the lowest survival rates of all cancers, she has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success? Call them next-generation driverless taxis or people movers, the age of personal rapid transport is just around the bend. Could PRT change the face of public transportation in cities and... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
(One cure for stock option abuse, say proponents, is to change accounting rules so that option grants are reflected in a company's principal financial statements. High-tech start-ups blister at that idea, saying it would harm their... View Details