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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
telecommunications technologies, particularly the Internet, which enabled entirely new ways to communicate with customers and suppliers, as well as internally. This was the era when everybody was developing new initiatives in B2C... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
shock that occurred when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. Our study is among the first to theorize about the impact of ratings on subsequent performance, and we introduce important contingencies that influence firm response. These theoretical View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
marketing-services firms, describes the $4 billion spent last year as "chicken feed." What he finds interesting about the Web is the impact it is having on the wider area of communication services. Sorrell, whose business leadership... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
remote. Colleagues are not going to overhear useful conversations while getting coffee. Because of this, functions of leadership that may have been automatic must now be done explicitly and with intent. The implication for leaders:... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
remote. Colleagues are not going to overhear useful conversations while getting coffee. Because of this, functions of leadership that may have been automatic must now be done explicitly and with intent. The implication for leaders:... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
"P5+1"-the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany-raises challenging questions. Will the initial deal function as a stepping stone toward a more comprehensive deal? Or will it drift into becoming a stopping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
resources.” Shortly after assuming his position, Jimenez initiated a strategic review that sought to concentrate the portfolio on businesses where Novartis could be at global scale in attractive markets. Rather than following competitors,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
diverse perspectives that will help them compete. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52624 May–June 2017 Harvard Business Review The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership By: Bower, Joseph L., and Lynn... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
contacts that led to a position at Goldman Sachs, where she worked for 35 years before assuming a leadership role at JSJ Corporation. The first female HBS MBA hired by Goldman, she was preceded by Margaret Gilliam (HRPBA 1961), who worked... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
you can’t regulate your way to strong leadership or good character any more than you can legislate morality. Companies and their shareholders have to want to change their boards — and to help make board members perform better. Formal... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Counterfactual simulations of our structural model show large gains from screening potential hires via psychometric measurement and training to improve managerial practices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55871 View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
illustrates the importance of embedding a scale-up strategy in the initial design of a program that aims to solve a widespread problem. In the following discussion, Kanter and Litow talk about the process through which creative,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
United States around 1900, and the initial "wow" factor that visitors experience when entering these buildings is often a partial reaction to the scope and beauty of their architecture. There is nothing like walking into the Field Museum... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
increasingly tied to the sway of private financial interests, and how postwar administrations finally extricated the U.S. from economic interventionism, even though the government had the will and power to continue. Maurer examines the ways that American investors... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
Joshua Weiss Abstract In the face of daunting barriers, the Abraham Path Initiative envisions uncovering and revitalizing a route of cultural tourism that follows the path of Abraham and his family some 4,000 years ago across the Middle... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
from initiating and smoothing communication to establishing long-lasting relationships and mutual trust, and from bargaining and drafting agreements to securing their implementation. Chinese negotiators can be at once warm hosts and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
shared #MeToo stories of abuse after Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault in October 2017. “With the Weinstein story, a dam broke,” says Colleen Ammerman, director of Harvard Business School’s Gender Initiative, which supports research to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
information disclosure proposed by the Global Transparency Initiative (2009). 4. Expand and protect political space for democratic and participatory decision-making in national political processes. The potential for democratic,... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
apart! Skynet has become self-aware. In one hour it will initiate a massive nuclear attack on its enemy. What enemy? Us! Humans!” But Donna Dubinsky (MBA 1981), CEO of Numenta, says all that Hollywood-inspired fear of artificial... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
concerns about that. The notion took hold that people at the top should pay some extra in income tax or the corporations should be asked to pay for some of the benefits that they were getting for being a part of the system. You got this View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne