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- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
conflict of interest settlement, many brokerages such as Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley, and J.P. Morgan Chase are outsourcing a lot of the number crunching activities of sell-side analysts to places like... View Details
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
shake and shift markets." One advisor to two sovereign funds, Jack Cramer, points out that at least in his experience "the funds are ... in no sense aggressive or eager to lead in a sector. As... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
and run major infrastructure projects such as power and water. But a set of new property protections has done little to manage the risk in many of these politically unstable... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
manufacturers and service companies will seek permanently to diversify their supply chains radically going forward We might accept the lower financial results as the insurance premium we have to pay to... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
outfitter Timberland, begun in 1989 when City Year requested from Timberland fifty pairs of boots for its urban youth service corps, founded the previous year. The service corps program organizes youths from... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
generational thing, that as our Internet generation ages into mid-life, "we will slow down." Will we? For example, will we be able to suppress annoyance when someone writes us a letter, to which... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 May 2002
- Book
Bringing the Master Passions to Work
If passions are the masters of reason—as David Hume (1960) believed—then they have done a remarkable job at getting us to believe in their benign nature—their outright subservience to reason. Deception and self-deception are View Details
Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
measures. The Global Reporting Initiative captures ESG information from over 80 percent of the world’s largest corporations. Every company wants to be known as a good global citizen, and ESG reporting helps... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
strategy for how you actually get to those results. For example, the MCC made a $550 million grant to the government of Ghana that was focused on infrastructure such as... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
motivated not only by the desire to make a profit and to sustain viability and profitability, but also by the desire to beat their rival. Indeed, the language with which competitors are often described or referred to internally suggests... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?
I’m not just a professor and business consultant; I’m also a parent to two kids. As I’ve often mused, the challenges leaders face at home and at work aren’t necessarily all... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
although some high-productivity economies may have seen their growth rates slow.” And Brent Dalager expressed his opinion that the picture is changing rapidly for the better with the introduction of “software robotics” in such industries View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
continue to make decisions that miss opportunities to make all parties better off. We will end up with inefficient methods of creating a cleaner environment. We will continue to miss opportunities to provide more View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
segmentation schemes haven't fared much better." Instead, Treacy advises us to keep our eye on the goal of delivering product or service value as a means to retain our... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
customer but every entity that interacts with you in a significant manner."3 This claim is repeated in the book The Customer Is CEO, which defines a customer as "the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
however, half the initial financing had been spent, and UPromise was "burning" the rest at a rate that could exhaust it before year-end. But even as the number of employees exceeded 100 and the... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
The "sharing economy" is a burgeoning business model in which people offer their personal belongings and personal services to others, usually through online marketplaces that facilitate the transactions. It... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela. Video Embed Jim Aisner: What are the most important lessons you learned from your trip to India? John Macomber: I learned things on a personal level as well View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
The venture capital industry is ripe for disruption: just like other leading mainstream companies have been for years, according to HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen. As a keynote speaker at the... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
Business Review, Merton, a Nobel laureate, urges senior corporate executives and boards to view derivative applications not just as tactical measures but as strategic tools... View Details