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- 06 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Mechanisms of Technology Re-Emergence and Identity Change in a Mature Field: Swiss Watchmaking, 1970-2008
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
credit card debt to postpone the day of reckoning. Too many Americans have been expressing the Dream through the acquisition of stuff. Americans need a refresher course on the American dream. The Constitution speaks of life, liberty, and... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
for shareholders. However, there is a sense, expressed by John Ippolito, that there is a lack of perception in boards of directors of "what constitutes 'creating value' in the enterprise many boards are too ready to turn over the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
Philosophers have been debating what constitutes a just distribution of power for millennia, and many people are tempted to think that the philosopher’s study is precisely where the topic belongs. In fact, the opposite is true: The... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
never imagined we’d see this happen. —Paul Raeder (MBA 1979) 1980s “Any leadership skills I may possess came from this club that dared not speak its name and that constituted the center of my world.” “Any leadership skills I may possess... View Details
- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
much like core emotions, each deep metaphor may take many different forms. For example, balance may involve social, psychological, physical, and aesthetic themes. The small number of deep metaphors, each with many variations, and often working together, View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
The traditional professions of law, medicine, and the clergy all have deep historical roots in another major institution of Western society: the university. Roman and canon law, medicine, and theology, in fact, constituted three of the... View Details
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
most people see an anxiety-creating attack for what it is, if those who don't see the fallacy of the logic constitute more than a small percentage of a group, you might still have a serious problem that must be handled with care. Even a... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- Web
Drug & Alcohol Policy | About
synthetically-produced drugs often have unpredictable emotional and physical side effects that constitute an extreme health hazard. Students, faculty, and staff should also weigh the seriousness of potential loss of function that may come... View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
developing some very different approaches to measuring social performance," he says. "That suggests we might not see agreement on a common set of metrics in the social sector for a while. What we could see instead is convergence on what View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 07 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details
- 03 Jul 2008
- What Do You Think?
Are Followers About to Get Their Due?
in a business school curriculum. Several expressed the belief that followership is too situational to constitute good material for study. Hemanshu Joshi said, "... followership is not a skill but a reaction." Surendranath A.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
more recently floated, as low as potentially $15 billion. This would constitute a “down round,” and typically prior venture investors receive extra shares to protect their ownership percentage in a down round. There is only a cryptic... View Details
- 30 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Finding Pride
club that dared not speak its name and that constituted the center of my world.” It wasn’t easy to be gay in the 1970s—not that it ever was. Anita Bryant was spewing vitriol, Harvey Milk was murdered in November 1978, and six months later... View Details
- 25 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?
game. I won’t make any predictions, except that I would say that baseball is working hard to try to restore the revenue side and the attendance side. It’s complicated to determine what constitutes a trend. I would simply say they’re... View Details
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
million Firestone 500 tires at a cost of $150 million after taxes–an action that constituted the largest consumer recall in U.S. history.19 Firestone's move into radials was not only consistent with the company's standard operating... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
opportunity to lead and make decisions that have a profound impact on people and organizations. I also came to see that a myriad of opportunities for that exist outside of the military. The military does not have a monopoly on significance, impact, or service. These... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
This marketing strategy attracted interest not only from users, which constituted one side, but also from content providers and app developers, which constituted the other side. Transaction platforms For... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
need to get out there and create data." Collectively, these five discovery skills constitute what we call the innovator's DNA, the code for creating innovative business ideas. By mastering these discovery skills, you can learn to act... View Details