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- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
"The best way to go about it in the corporate world is to have good leaders who can lead by example with positive and solution-oriented attitudes." Kevin Bowe added, "Attitudes can be learned,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
Harvard Business School started its Japan Research Office in December 2001—smack in the middle of an incredibly turbulent time for the country's economy. The boom years of the 1970s and 1980s—when Japanese management practices View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 07 Jun 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Important are Big Ideas?
exercise unless management approaches them with military discipline." Mike Kirkeberg goes even further in saying, "All new management philosophies and strategies work ... until they don’t. ... It seems very simple: Make a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
actually increase job openings through better service, higher sales, and more profits. Or it's a management that is sufficiently desperate for good headlines about its hiring View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
- Research Event
Venture Capital
U.S. economy and policy. Among the major points of discussion: The importance of right-hand tail companies. Distribution of returns and the tensions between limited and general... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
ideas apply in all situations begging for wisdom? For example, David Physick opines that "Different situations require different leadership: sometimes single-minded dogmatism and other times much more collegiate or crowd-based... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can innovation and creativity be managed? Where do creative ideas come... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
system. And we also have to be aware of the fact that where we're most likely to give up is when we're working across differences." Instead, he said, ask employees, "Have you had any more thoughts about our conversation?"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
good news on corruption is that private citizens are coming forward as never before to expose corrupt practices—posting evidence of bribes paid through web-based platforms such as RosPil in Russia and I Paid... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
good projects and good returns. Esty's interest in project finance evolved out of his doctoral thesis on risk-taking in the savings and loan... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
firms and alliances head-to-head in a meaningful way, which requires measuring their performance in similar situations. "When you see an alliance over here, and a solo firm over there, there's a View Details
- 18 Nov 2009
- HBS Case
Customer Feedback Not on elBulli’s Menu
tell you they want will be based on something they already know," Norton observes. "If I like a good steak, you can serve that to me, and I'll enjoy it. But it will never be a once-in-a-lifetime... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
shopping time to finding the items that they wanted," says Ngwe. "The objective of filling their purchase basket up to reach that threshold is an additional effort from their perspective. As a result, we find a substantial amount of overshooting, View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
Bean, for instance, is a company that has excelled at learning through customer intelligence. The outdoor products retailer has gained success not only by accumulating information in a thorough way but by interpreting it with great creativity View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
1946, when the late Georges Doriot, a long-time and legendary member of the HBS faculty, founded American Research and Development as a willing and able source of financing for... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
Well-intentioned people often start the new calendar year with a long list of personal resolutions, only to abandon most of them before Valentine’s Day. Alas, it’s a lot easier to make New Year’s resolutions than to keep them. That’s one View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
(like employee satisfaction). Those are fine for understanding individual perceptions, but aren’t so good at quantifying real behavioral responses and organizational performance outcomes from open offices.... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein