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- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
their most important responsibilities, substituting "executive search" for succession planning and development? What, if anything, can CEOs, directors, and shareholders do about this? What do you think? To Read More: Joseph L. Bower, The CEO Within: Why... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
if the ultimate enforcement mechanism seems so far-fetched? “By understanding why people make mistakes, it may help you creatively design an approach to resolve these disputes” Harvard Business School... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
to become a major product family. His success in that position propelled him to a series of other assignments, including a temporary one in strategic planning, that eventually landed him a promotion to vice president and general manager, with profit-and-loss... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
according to a recent study by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Albert W. Sheen. In The Real Product Impact of Mergers, Sheen finds that mergers generally have little effect on product quality... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
early stages of entrepreneurial firms and new industries. Her new chapter builds on a huge research project she began several years ago with Ranjay Gulati, a professor of organizational behavior at the Kellogg Graduate School of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
point—comes too late to have a meaningful impact on people's lives.” “We're not saying that medical debt doesn't matter,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Raymond Kluender, the study’s lead... View Details
- 02 Sep 2016
- Op-Ed
The Twitter Election
John Quelch is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he teaches Strategic Marketing Management in the Advanced... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
- 13 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams
When Harvard Business School professor Vincent Pons went to Kenya to conduct research in advance of the 2013 national elections, he discovered surprising lessons about how the ethnic makeup of teams affects... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
of the study, Alvin Silk, Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus, and Joel Weissman, associate professor, department of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School. The Physicians Report ran... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
what is clear is that the organization will have to be one that both consumers need and doctors trust, says John A. Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
specifically about COVID-19 impacts and responses, we spoke with several Harvard Business School alumni committed to reducing the impact of mental illness and addiction on individuals and communities. Here... View Details
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
Farronato, a Harvard Business School assistant professor, and Andrey Fradkin, postdoctoral fellow at the Initiative on the Digital Economy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "You might find a... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
because of what they did, but because of what they are? That's the question that intrigued Jonas Heese, who recently joined Harvard Business School as an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
Unit at Harvard Business School. "For example, procurement policies could serve a demonstration role that would stimulate private demand by making people more aware of green buildings. They might also cover the start-up costs of... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
a factory in a low-cost location in Asia? Such a move over the next five to seven years would be full of risk, especially considering LEGO has had a checkered history of expansion—one such effort almost led to bankruptcy. So Harvard View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
McGinn believe that negotiation skills are crucial to closing the gender gap in leadership. Riley Bowles, who earned her doctoral degree from Harvard Business School, is an assistant professor at Harvard's John F. Kennedy View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
What do Stella McCartney, Apple, Netflix, and Wal-Mart have in common? They were all subjects of the most popular episodes of Harvard Business School's Cold Call podcast in the last year. Twice monthly, host and Chief Marketing and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
idea with Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. Nohria remembered that he and his HBS colleague, Rakesh Khurana, had noticed a similar effect in CEO data—that some chief executives had two distinct... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
middle school during the late 1990s, Speed Trap may provide some historical perspective on the origins of the business models upon which you are building, and some lessons for navigating a boom-bust cycle.... View Details