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  • 04 Mar 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

control of human behavior by totalitarian government, replacing human hopes, emotions, and even relationships with an “inside out” dominance over human thought and behavior by an all-seeing entity called Big Brother. In the recent book... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

effect of greater rivalry dominates for less uncertain problems whereas the effect on the extreme value prevails for more uncertain problems. Adding competitors thus systematically increases overall contest performance for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 27

damaged financial markets. As an alternative to the patchwork solutions and ideologically charged proposals that have dominated other discussions, the Squam Lake group sets forth a clear nonpartisan plan of action to transform the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 31

Abstract Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

comparatively linear and sequential approach adopted by medical device development teams in developed countries like the United States. Further, we suggest that such testing is feasible in India because of the prevailing regulatory flexibility, the cognitive View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

sustained growth while pursuing a strong export orientation provided the empirical backdrop for this approach. Government policy to achieve export-led growth is then essentially about findings ways to increase the ability to sell... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 17 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

careers began when men dominated the workforce and women shouldered all caregiving needs. Now a vicious cycle persists: Employees suffer in silence and eschew potentially helpful benefits, and employers assume that employees are coping... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

  PublicationsHigher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Authors:Michael Beer, Russel A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

approach essentially joins two initially separated intellectual traditions, the descriptive and the prescriptive. For many years, cognitive and social scientists performed careful laboratory experiments to determine what subjects actually... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 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
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

States, Neeley argues that an organization’s lingua franca is the catalyst by which all employees become some kind of “expat”(someone detached from their mother tongue or home culture). Through her unfettered access to the inner workings of Rakuten, she reveals three... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

of an airliner. Hundreds of hours may go into gathering and analyzing data to sort out exactly what happened and what can be learned. Compare this kind of analysis to what takes place in most organizations after a failure. As noted above, View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
  • 04 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

Are auditors becoming too big to fail? For over a decade, there have been articles and op-eds in the popular and business press arguing that the auditing industry, currently dominated by Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 17 Dec 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

from them because they assumed themselves to be in the railroad business rather than in the transportation business. . . .They were product oriented instead of customer oriented." As was so often true of Levitt's work,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail
  • 30 Mar 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

ramifications for Facebook’s long-term business success. But can Facebook avoid changing its business model? What do you think? Original Column Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, one of the most dominant firms on the internet... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology
  • 27 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

structure, formal management processes, information technology, the informal social network, and people. Organizational structure is a natural beginning but most people expect too much from it. There is no "perfect" structure.... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

Organizing for Society: A Typology of Social Entrepreneuring Models Authors:Mair, Johanna, Julie Battilana, and Julian Cardenas Publication:Journal of Business Ethics Abstract In this article, we use content and cluster analysis on a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 9 Nov 2021
  • Interview

How to Build Psychological Safety in Your Workplace with The Fearless Organization Author, Amy C. Edmondson

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Dominic Monkhouse
If you want to be better at leading a team. If you want to know how to lead a good decision making process. Or how to engage and inspire people to bring their full self to work, don’t miss Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School professor and author of The Fearless... View Details
Keywords: Psychological Safety; Organizational Culture; Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 20 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers Value Global Brands

brands, in industries as diverse as information technology and oil. Social Responsibility. People recognize that global companies wield extraordinary influence, both positive and negative, on society's well-being. They expect firms to... View Details
Keywords: by Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch & Earl L. Taylor
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

executives need to figure out how the product, labor, and capital markets work—and don't work—in their target countries. This will help them understand the differences between home markets and those in developing countries. In addition, each country's View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

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