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- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
has to retail shopping. Amitabh Chandra is the Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the M.S./M.B.A. program in life sciences at... View Details
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
The average billion-dollar company spends as many as 25,000 person-days per year putting together the budget. If this all paid off in shareholder return, that would be fine.... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
into why the owners of small businesses typically wait until the last minute to update their books and file tax forms. Most people would say they are just lazy or undisciplined. But Cook observed what was happening and asked why. And the... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
categories) becomes unproductive due to customers migrating to e-tailers. As entire sections of these stores die from online competition, category killers are being pressed to come up with solutions to keep their overall model afloat. The... View Details
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
the organization and its world. "If they are not trained the right way, they can spend the next twenty years building deeper and deeper skills in a narrow aspect," Narayandas says. "What they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
last spring, at the height of pandemic lockdowns. And before the pandemic, social media use had been flat for four years as these advertising channels became more cluttered and distrusted, offering marketers... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
diverge from the typical nine-to-five. Contrary to some expectations—but consistent with years of research—that flexibility has actually spurred worker productivity to improve. In polls that Neeley has taken... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
spend years burning through venture capital while they figured out their strategy. These are the days of the lean startup. "Most startups fail not because they can't build... View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
their purpose Practicing solid values Leading with heart Establishing connected relationships Demonstrating self-discipline The following year the Gallup Institute and Professor Bruce Avolio, a well-known leadership scholar at the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
Every year depression affects one in every five employees and costs American businesses $210 billion in medical bills and lost productivity. In fact, for every worker with a depressive disorder, a company loses an average View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
hyperbole to describe the risk of disappointing customers as one of corporate life or death. The apparel industry's sales of marked-down items... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
from earlier debates this year have helped candidates inspire donors and gain media attention. While one of these candidates might square off with Trump at the podiums next... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
their own weaknesses. Please elaborate; you write in your book that "learning how to express your vulnerabilities on appropriate occasions is an emerging leadership skill." A: One of the great myths View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
of the family business system, we need to understand what capable leaders in family business systems actually do. I've spent much of my professional life figuring this out.... View Details
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time is to be published today. Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In addition to her many years View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
disruptive innovation has gained considerable currency among practitioners despite widespread misunderstanding of its core principles. Similarly, foundational research on disruption has elicited frequent... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
that the taxes they endorsed started out small in scope and size but have multiplied by a factor of eight as a share of our economy, have we gone off course? After all, when an income tax was introduced in... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
design. Deighton discussed how new sources of data starting to be generated by the Internet of Things will impact the advertising-based hegemony of Google, Amazon, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
Company based in Boston, Glassman (HBS MBA '69) said issues such as homelessness, women's rights and outreach to the gay and lesbian community have shaped his own life and the life View Details
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
Over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, there are hints of optimism as more people gain access to vaccines and the federal government injects more stimulus money into the... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson