Respect For Improvements - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

unmarketable yet invaluable intangibles such as social tolerance, personal responsibility, and respect for the rule of law. Each is a unique community of scholars in which lives as well as minds are molded.... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

improved significantly in respect to speed, convenience, and cost. For example, I get Sunday delivery of Amazon through the post office as part of my Prime membership while... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

to improve IPR in many ways. We classify the reforms we study according to whether or not they expand or strengthen patent law along five dimensions: Expansion in the range of goods eligible for patent... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

job. Q: What role do senior managers have in improving the situation? A: Senior management has the responsibility to send a strong message that how one accomplishes the objectives is important, and that honesty, transparency, and a... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

16 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

have only scratched the surface of what can be done with educational technology.Photo: iStockPhoto "Education is the foundation for a just society, and being able to provide a high level of public education View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

20 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

The Power of Ordinary Practices

creativity is absolutely essential for current business success. I define creativity as producing novel, workable ideas and solutions to problems; innovation is implementing those ideas within an organizational context. You need novel and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile

21 Jan 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

One of the highlights of my year is in November, when teams of enterprising families meet for the Executive Education program I founded and still lead at Harvard Business School, Families in Business. One of the thornier problems we... View Details

Keywords: Retail

08 Sep 2011
What Do You Think?

What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?

pursue opportunity and successful new product development in spite of investor impatience. The real challenges may lie elsewhere, for example "the market place," as Jasper Ojongtambia suggests, or competition from companies like... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

25 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

changes that have revolutionized their use in practice. He contends that both serve the US economy by helping troubled companies stay viable by giving them time to find new financing, renegotiate unfavorable leases and supply contracts, or expedite processes View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

are delivering, and as a tool to continuously improve their processes. Innovative providers will market their areas of excellence and will grow geographically as opposed to growing solely by offering new products. There will be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

business leaders from virtually every industry are scrambling to make sense of what has happened in the past year and of what this means for their respective paths ahead. Almost every individual and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

13 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens

what's being done and allowing them to see it for themselves," says Buell. "Moving from the 'base case' where we just show statistics to a transparent version of the website that shows the problems that are being addressed,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

underlying need for companies to not only monitor but also improve their performance” "Companies are monitoring the impact they're having environmentally and on society, and the appointment of the CSO... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

landscape. It has a powerful government, appears respected in the world, and for the first extended time in modern history, it faces no real external threats to its security. China's resurgence has been... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

LaGuardia is number 15 for takeoff. I miss Air Force One!! And here's one from film director Lee Unkrich: Just in case you think all this has gone to my head, within 36 hours of winning the Oscar, I was back home plunging a clogged... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

Professional Networks in China and America

Most managers understand at some level the wisdom of the adage, "It's not what you know; it's who you know." Indeed, building the right professional relationships is critical for business success. In China, relationships are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

coming from. Yet, about 3 million dogs and cats are killed every year because they don’t get homes, so there’s clearly room for improvement in matching pets with families.” THE BIRTH OF WAGAROO Exley has... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

15 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

partnership with the online review platform Yelp helped the researchers evaluate consumers’ interest in dining at restaurants as well as ordering food for delivery and takeout. The team found that: People across the US had largely stopped... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

In a recent case study, professor Alan MacCormack and research associate Jay Wynn swung for the moon—Mars, actually. After two high-profile missions to Mars failed in 2000, MacCormack wanted to understand the organizational and procedural... View Details