EXECUTIVE Ability (Management) - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

working in the welfarist normative tradition should include nonwelfarist principles in how they judge economic policy. The key idea behind this argument is that the world is too complex, and our ability to model it too limited, for us to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

hypothesis that if there were more women who were venture capitalists then there would be more points of intersection with women entrepreneurs. In our research using information from 1995 and 2000, we documented all the women in the venture capital industry who were on... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

Prevention programs disrupted "The pandemic threatens to dismantle all the gains made in the US in the recent six-year fight against opioids and heroin,” says Jim Langford (HBS MBA 1984), Executive Director of the Georgia Prevention... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

a project to a small group of people who are amateurs, who do the project part-time and act as a committee. It doesn't demand management time and resources, and you haven't brought in new skills. This holds for hospitals, government... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

important and contentious subjects where intellectual breakthroughs are possible. 1. Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is an area in which business historians have made important contributions, but in which most of the recent conceptual work has been done by... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

17 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

CEO Corie Barry, who says that making money is the company’s business imperative, not its purpose. Barry explains how the company manages to balance pursuing its mission of enriching people’s lives through technology while also focusing... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

concerned. Hopefully, the longer-term economic response will also be executed in ways that will avoid unleashing yet another round of deflationary forces. Unfortunately, there is little margin for error this time. Tom Nicholas, Associate... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

book, Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth, coauthored with HBS professor William Kirby and Regina Abrami of the Wharton School. In addition to teaching in several HBS Executive Education programs, McFarlan has been a... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

differently. Over time, he had established a group of trusted executives around him, which formed a "steering committee." And they all had their own points of view, which they regularly voiced. The tension of the big-growth... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

various levels in the World Bank including mid-level managers, vice-presidents, and members of its executive board, as well as interviews with global civil society organizations (CSOs) that have engaged the institution on issues of... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

British Parliament replaced common land with private property--a process that prompted better management and made Great Britain the leader in the Industrial Revolution. I then began to think about the relationship over time between new... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

12 Jul 2016
First Look

July 12, 2016

slowed to 18% in 2015. Beighton was convinced that ASOS's strategy was right and that the company needed to improve its execution to recapture its historical success. Some analysts were not so sure, and the stock price still had not... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

drafted inside the executive branch, and they reflected the executive branch's wishes at the time. They weren't incredibly consultive with Democrats. Having said that, the overall approach was much more... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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