Executive Ability (Management) - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

likely contributed to the great recession by inflating the housing and credit bubbles in 2005-2007. But when it comes to sovereign risk, they are getting it right. Across the world, there are many serious threats to the long-term ability... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

05 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

turnaround—form the basis for a terrific debate on the importance of brand and location, according to Jeffrey Fear, an associate professor, and Carin-Isabel Knoop, executive director of the HBS Global Research Group. The two resulting... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Gautam Mukunda leads off his new book, Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, with the results of social science research that executives may wish not to consider: individual leaders rarely... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

foreign direct investment and for sustainable economic growth? These questions and more are explored in a forthcoming business case coauthored by Alfaro along with HBS professor Rafael M. Di Tella, Executive Director of the HBS Europe... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

recession. The financial crisis opened the door to massive public interventions in the world's economies, in which the government served as venture capitalist. But these efforts focused on the most troubled and poorly managed firms in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

analysis are based on publicly available information, and also, and perhaps even more importantly, on our Chief Executive's survey we have conducted earlier this year. More than 4,500 Chief Executive Officers have responded to that... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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