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- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
polesnoy As technology commoditization begins speeding up again, it’s a great time to be a consumer in search of a state-of-the-art flat panel TVs, but less comfortable for manufacturers hoping to make a profit. That’s according to recent research by Willy Shih, View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
of many hospitals testing a process called time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC), which is meant to marry cost-measuring with value-based care. TDABC was pioneered by Robert S. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower... View Details
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
conclude that I understood leadership pretty well, I've begun to wonder. Let's start with the leadership associated with large organizations with relatively long histories. In recent years, we have been educated by concepts such as MBWA... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- December 2010
- Article
The Case for Professional Boards
By: Robert C. Pozen
When the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Failure; Accounting Audits; Quality; Behavior; Legal Liability; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Performance Effectiveness; United States
Pozen, Robert C. "The Case for Professional Boards." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010).
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
Morgan Roberts at a recent conference. But what are the nuts-and-bolts details of starting and sustaining a minority-owned business in today's tough economy? Panelists at the 2003 H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference emphasized the well known... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Aug 2014
- What Do You Think?
What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?
recollections of Bennis or have been influenced by his writings. If so, what are the recollections or the influences? What is Warren Bennis's legacy? What do you think? To Read More: Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader, (Cambridge, MA:... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
Garvin remembers Christensen as "incredibly open," a trait echoed by Robert Bruner (HBS MBA '74, DBA '82), who served as a summer case-writing assistant to Christensen. "He supervised me in... View Details
- 03 Feb 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?
witnessed by enrollments. The issue arises again with a seeming upsurge of interest in implementation. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton describe what they call this "knowing-doing gap" in their... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
offer “precise” bids for company shares yield better outcomes than those who offer round-number bids, according to research by Petri Hukkanen and Matti Keloharju. Bernie Madoff Explains Himself Eugene Soltes phoned convicted felon Bernie... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
something new and different is worthless." Ron Kurtz noted that (customers) "are better at reacting to things and defining their 'problems' that they would like to see resolved or alleviated." Some commented on the limits of formalized marketing research. As View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
report to you succeed, I think it’s pretty hard to lead with anything other than humility and vulnerability.” Dfallah said, “I believe candor, humility and trust are core values for visionary companies ” Michael H. added, “For several years, I’ve been advocating a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
pursuing your goals accordingly. In this excerpt, he discusses the unfortunate and all-too-common tendency to focus on extrinsic rather than intrinsic motivators. Who Sets Your Benchmarks? From, What You're Really Meant to Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique... View Details
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
communications readers used by Apple Pay unless consumer demand is high. First off, Apple must convince merchants to adopt its service, says Willy Shih, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
recognized Robert E. Downing's advice that we may need to define work before asking the question. For knowledge workers, "it is very difficult to determine when the workers are actually working Maybe we shouldn't be asking about... View Details
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
2014 midterms. Now 16 months away from the next election, efforts have been joined to prevent voter tampering from happening again. But I don’t think significant progress has been accomplished—a view bolstered in recent testimony before congress View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
talent." Robert Latoff, a leader of the Growth and Business Building Center at McKinsey & Company, said big companies often have to rethink the way they do things when starting new businesses. "The business processes that... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 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 in the April issue of the journal Health Affairs, and was... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
technology on the newspaper business with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne in this e-mail interview. An article based on Gilbert's doctoral research in this area received the Robert Litschert Best Doctoral Student Paper... View Details
- 27 Feb 2024
- Cold Call Podcast
How Could Harvard Decarbonize Its Supply Chain?
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson as well as Ryan Holiday’s instant classic The Obstacle is the Way. I have also been ramping... View Details