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- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
question, "Can Japan compete?", the simple answer is yes. The real question, according to the authors, is, "Will it choose to compete?" First published in Japanese in the spring of 2000, the English version of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
immensely creative, but he writes 'Rushdie' books, and his publishers have to create a market for his books, not ask him to write books that will sell more easily than literary fiction," she says.... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
relatively small number of high profile leaders. Even my publisher informed me this week that at least one major retail book chain will not promote a book on management unless... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
Anywhere, which publishes March 30. The book acts as a “blueprint” for long-term workplace transformations, providing evidence-based advice for navigating the virtual work world, including dos and don'ts... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
In a new book on the origins and impacts of globalization, Harvard Business School's Geoffrey Jones focuses on the role played by a vital but often ignored actor in this conversation: business entrepreneurs and the multinational... View Details
- 18 Nov 2009
- HBS Case
Customer Feedback Not on elBulli’s Menu
get a booking that year, they are then given a date and time to show up. Reaching elBulli's coastal perch involves traveling to Barcelona, then negotiating two hours of narrow, twisting mountain roads. But then they enjoy a five-hour meal... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
social returns when they succeed. The problem, says Esty, is that many of the largest products have hit financial turbulence. Esty, whose new book Modern Project Finance: A Casebook, was published recently,... View Details
- 08 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer
In his book Getting to Giving: Fundraising the Entrepreneurial Way, published in 2011, Stevenson, with Shirley Spence, details an approach to fundraising that is almost Zen-like in its philosophy, even as it... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
Strategy, published by Oxford University Press. Contributors to the book include Harvard Business School's Clayton M. Christensen, Walter Kuemmerle, and Thomas R. Eisenmann, as well as nine other scholars.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2015
- Op-Ed
The Real Duty of the Board of Directors
ownership of modern corporations is a central point of our new paper, Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality. Aiming to improve corporations’ public disclosures, we argue that the board should View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
book Redefining Health Care, published in 2006, Michael Porter and Elizabeth Olmstead Teisberg argued that the health care system should be reworked to focus on creating value for the patient. Since then,... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
What's next for Web services? In his case summary "Will Web Services Really Transform Collaboration?" published in the Winter 2005 edition of MIT Sloan Management Review, HBS associate professor Andrew P. McAfee argues that the... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
entrepreneurs. Resolve Your Toughest Work Problems With 5 Questions In his book Managing in the Gray, Joseph Badaracco offers managers a five-question framework for facing murky situations and solving tough problems. The Truth About... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
with the downside of thinking slow. So here is what my gut tells me about what you said this month: Thinking slow, as Daniel Kahneman calls it in his recent book by that name, is important under circumstances of high risk, uncertain... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
company to transfer assets and liabilities to certain so-called special purpose entities (SPEs). According to the Powers report, which was published by a special committee of Enron's board after the company entered bankruptcy protection... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
Original Article The new book Geeks and Geezers by Warren Bennis and Robert Thomas, argues that all the leaders they studied, whether "geeks" (under thirty) or "geezers" (over seventy), have the ability to engage... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
tomorrow's corporate and organizational leaders, according to Associate Professor Michel Anteby. In this book excerpt from Anteby's Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education, he takes readers on a guided... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
development of the U.S. railroad industry in the latter half of the 19th century. Al went straight to the sources and expanded upon them in a series of important articles in the Business History Review. That work developed into his pathbreaking View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
personal level, C. J. Cullinane reported that "I work with keeping up with technology but the newspapers and books are my anchor . [They also leave] a good audit trail." Phil Clark said, "Ultimately, when a person becomes... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
financial and accounting professionals, regulators, corporate executives, educators, fund managers and environmental sustainability advocates around the topic, according to the organizer, HBS professor Robert G. Eccles. Eccles, a pioneer in the field, coauthored the... View Details