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- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
Microsoft and IBM were initially very successful in creating freestanding business units that could compete with entrants on their own terms, but that as the new businesses grew, the need to share key firm-level assets imposed significant... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
put management tools—such as finance, strategy, operations, and leadership—together to take on larger leadership roles.” Handling hard conversations The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of these skills, the authors say. As the virus View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
investors provide a little funding and limited governance to an increased number of startups that they are more likely to abandon, but where initial experiments significantly inform beliefs about the future potential of the venture. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
Chances are you've got a story like Andrea Zintz's. Now president of Andrea Zintz & Associates, a consulting firm in Pennington, N.J., she was working for a health-care concern in 1997 when the firm's executive committee decided to launch an innovation View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
previously relied on their local networks to find viable candidates. Now, with a few online searches, they can identify ideal potential employees around the world. “If I’m a company, I can just say, ‘Show me everybody who knows how to View Details
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
options. They can invest in new as well as shelved technologies and product designs that are particularly effective in mitigating risk and improving safety—even when they are initially inferior in terms of costs, user-friendliness, or... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
unique brand positioning for DIFF. Committed to its vision, Juma led the introduction of various initiatives over the years and was able to effectively grow the festival’s profile amid emerging regional and well-established global players... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
Resource Management, Improving Resilience Among Employees High in Depression, Anxiety, and Workplace Distress, which shows that a workplace-based wellness program can help employees suffering from mental health issues. A potential... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
BlackTech Week have demonstrated the force of Black entrepreneurship and catalyzed success for many, Kanter says. Hatcher and Pearson have rebranded their initiatives under one umbrella, the Center for Black Innovation, which includes a... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
development programs,” Beer says. Some studies have shown that only 10 percent of corporate training is effective, he says. It’s not that the content of the training programs is necessarily bad; rather, it’s that companies are not laying... View Details
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
an HBS initiative on Corporate Governance, Leadership, and Values. Professor Palepu has a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an Honorary Doctorate from the Helsinki School of Economics and Business... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
program successful. Neeley, who has studied this unmined subject for nearly 10 years, worked closely on the case with Mikitani, described by some as Japan's Bill Gates. Mikitani expected that the initial... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
and everybody can use the same types of technology, gaining these kinds of edges and increasing your competitive advantage is pretty important,” Nagle says. Examples of other crowdsourced public goods in the digital world include View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
entitled "The Future of MBA Education," and Srikant and I were responsible for preparing and leading it. Our initial goal was simply to gather enough material to conduct a day-long conversation with our faculty drawing on interviews with... View Details
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
will better guide them as they think through which school-improvement programs and initiatives to support. We are already seeing a relatively big outpouring of activity from businesses, investors, and... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
proactive effort to be as effective and clear as possible in their communication to both internal and external stakeholders. Importantly, a vast majority of the initiatives that companies in our sample are implementing do not require... View Details
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
support every low- to moderate-income family, says Tufano. Beyond valuable programs like Social Security, tax breaks for savers, or auto-enrollment initiatives, there are more innovative and exciting projects: Prize-linked savings... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
founder of the Tobin Project, an independent, interdisciplinary initiative that uses academic research to tackle massive real-world problems like economic inequality, national security, and government regulation. “We’ve found that working... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
the growth of younger companies and revitalize large corporations through partnerships with innovative SMEs; 3) improving the match between education and employment opportunities, through apprenticeship programs and other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne