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- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
evidence to destroy and which to hide. “I had known that the British government had destroyed evidence, but I had always imagined in my mind that it was this big haphazard bonfire type process,” Elkins says. “And it wasn’t, really. It was... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
Imagine you've arrived for a meeting at a corporate campus. But now you discover that the conference room is in another building a quarter mile away. Sure, you could walk there but in the rain? Up purrs an automated people mover, a... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
certify (upon penalty of legal action against them for failure to do so) the quality of internal control structures and procedures. You can imagine how this provision has captured the attention of CEOs across the country. In response to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
simple, imaginative games can unlock reservoirs of both creativity and persistence. Above all: Take care of yourself first The upside of this list is that it is not five separate to-do items—they combine easily. Food prep is a wonderful... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
make sure that short-term decisions don’t undermine the longer-term message. Have a clear set of strategic priorities with the long-term mission in mind. Dedicate some time (and perhaps a team) to imagining the future even while you are... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
a way that isn’t inauthentic. Can you describe that? A: Sure. It is natural to imagine that once any consumer touchpoint starts having an impact on people’s decisions, companies want to have an impact on that touchpoint. So with... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
nature of the process when he said, "To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."8 For him, innovation was about "'combinational... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
everywhere, and distributed computing. Think how these are starting to apply, for instance, in mass transit. The old model is a centralized bus and light rail system, serving fixed routes at high cost, with little adaptation to schedule and a lot of cash leakage as... View Details
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
opportunities in industry and services. "It is difficult to imagine how that will continue there has to be some solution and that solution has to be governmental." Several were more philosophical about the issue. As Wayne... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
they reported that "Without exception, these (resource management) activities are distributed more widely across the organization than is usually imagined posing huge problems where coherence is a central requisite for efficiency and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
short-term view while following their emotions. These "irrationals" are less well informed than they imagine (and certainly less well-informed than traditional economists assume). As an antidote to these problems, behavioral... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
information from a desktop to the device. Once the capability became clear, he said, he too wanted to learn chicken-scratch graffiti. That push-button capability linking to a vast array of information from a desktop, he indicated, had fired people's View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
brings together a prestigious group of international experts who were tasked with choosing, introducing, and commenting on seminal texts focused on creativity, invention, genius, and imagination from the period of 1850 to 1950. This... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
school in the healthcare sector. I also would like to find new ways of interacting with our colleagues throughout the University. There's more than you might imagine going on already, from informal collaborations on research, to teaching... View Details
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
assumptions. If anything surprises me about this it's that when we discussed the case it was just a few weeks before graduation and you might imagine that the students were beginning to "check out," but this group was fully... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
pointillist painter, and it's easy to imagine Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey humming the same tune. But if creativity is integral to business, and to entrepreneurship in particular, how exactly does it occur? Where does this unicorn-like... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
the organization together and promote coordination and teamwork. If the organization is a country, then one can only imagine the difficulty of effectively managing all of its individual components. South Korea’s leadership under president... View Details
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
recently about the arguments that Boston is less networked. If you travel to Kendall Square, there are so many buildings going up, the interaction, the collaborative atmosphere. You just can't walk through [Kendall Square] without feeling the excitement. I can't View Details
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
"One of the marks of a truly dominant intellectual paradigm is the difficulty people have in even imagining an alternative view." Do you think business scholarship has lost sight of social welfare issues? A: Our data suggest... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
Working PapersValuation when Cash Flow Forecasts Are Biased Author:Richard S. Ruback Abstract This paper focuses adaptations to the discount cash flow (DCF) method when valuing forecasted cash flows that are biased measures of expected cash flows. I View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne