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- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
cancer patients in particular voiced concerns about maintaining close relationships. Prostate cancer patients talked about performance anxiety. As for head and neck cancer patients, "All these patients were motivated to get back to... View Details
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
that voice should vary greatly." How can we know when customer inputs to product development count most? What do you think? Original Article Is it my imagination, or is marketing research and interest in customer views on anything of... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
things is an essential part of the creative process. People must be allowed to voice half-finished thoughts, ask questions from left field, and brainstorm out loud; it creates a culture in which a minor flub or momentary lapse is no big... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
community voices to set priorities. Despite all of this, even if there is increased national funding for climate change proposals—a big if—there will be tough political choices at the state and local level. To combat sea level rise,... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
application by application, customer by customer, disease by disease. [ ] Nucor cut its teeth on concrete reinforcing bars, not the sheet steel that fed Ford. Cisco deployed its switches to route data, not voice—because data didn't care about the router's four-second... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
for foreign companies to compete in Chinese markets. As these companies continued to scale by branching into new businesses, such as voice AI and self-driving vehicles, they also faced new and challenging questions about user privacy. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
Recent studies emphasize the importance of political decentralization and relatively broad political voice for the early spread of public primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
voice for the early spread of public primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be important in the context of BRIC, but we also outline how other factors such as factor endowments,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
school by the early 20th century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for BRIC drawn from contemporary surveys and government documents. Recent studies emphasize the importance of political decentralization and relatively broad political View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
For the last hundred years economists and many politicians have voiced concerns about fiscal deficits—with exceptions made for wartime, the Great Depression, and the recent Great Recession. Today, however, a new branch of economic theory... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
violence against your company if you are not willing to voice support for their cause there are rarely any solutions that would satisfy everyone. CEO’s facing this kind of circumstance have my respect and sympathy.” Peter Fanning offered... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
vacation. Or what if the CEO is in an unusually bad mood? Does the CEO have to speak in a monotone voice during a meeting to avoid showing that he's upset and, therefore, possibly conveying potentially material information?" In their... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
synergies, based on his vision of the future of transportation, energy storage, and a “green” economy. However, most Wall Street analysts were highly skeptical of the deal, voicing concerns that the merger would burden Tesla with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
It’s India Above China in New World Order
"a big difference." Q: As you think about the future of both countries, what are your main concerns or worries, given these two different models? A: Our concerns for China are these: how will China give political voice to the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
through governance or management issues, coming up with a plan to fix those issues, and then making a large investment in the equity of the company to gain a voice on its board to exercise control and oversight, as well as advocate for... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
performance. It also reveals how, regardless of the success, PepsiCo employees were openly speculating what it would mean for the diversity strategy that Reinemund would be turning the helm of PepsiCo over to Indra Nooyi, a 50-year old Indian-born woman, who would need... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
significant increase in the number of initiatives seeking to mobilize investor voice toward positive social impact. In this paper, I provide a framework outlining the role of investors as stewards of the commons. While companies are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
tripwire that is often triggered before a person crosses the line and violates the law. A manager who becomes accustomed to disregarding his or her inner voice in the name of shareholders is more likely to rationalize other actions to the... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
needed to be done. Still other organizations give potential employees some latitude in choosing their bosses. At Google, reporting relationships are sufficiently pliable that a new employee has a significant voice in the choice, moving... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
bit of time. Content Out Of Control Filling in for Bertelsmann CEO Middlehof, the company's Chief Creative Officer, Rolf Schmidt-Holtz offered his own view of how the Internet has changed the media business. "Four hundred years ago, one individual could reach with... View Details