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- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
makes it harder for the smaller company to compete.” Both companies added a huge number of customers from the pandemic lockdown, and Yoffie says it’s “unknown” how the end of those restrictions will affect their markets. Slack’s antitrust... View Details
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector
open-source standards were introduced. These eliminated restrictions on who can access and control the routers’ technical specifications. “We could keep track of everything. With other industries, you just can't do that.” In all, the... View Details
- 23 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf
experience? Kelleher: I don’t think it’s necessarily supply-chain-related. Some of it is. For example, I put in orders for new machinery in March. In a normal world, it should have been here by July. We’re not going to get it till January because the parts are harder... View Details
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
Sometimes, thinking outside the box isn’t ambitious enough to get real innovation flowing. In her new book, Rosabeth Moss Kanter encourages organization leaders to think much more broadly at what restricts creativity and how to overcome... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2019
- What Do You Think?
Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?
use should be further restricted or they should be redesigned. But just how to redesign them poses a further question. In a nutshell, that’s one reading of reader responses to this month’s column. Russell Beck commented that “based on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Dec 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?
objected to invoking the Sherman Act argue that such actions hurt competition and restrict free markets. Ironically, those advocating the use of the Sherman Act, even though they are sometimes labeled “socialists” by their opponents,... View Details
- 13 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
come as analysts predict a coming wave of M&A deals that were long pushed back by the COVID-19 pandemic. As COVID restrictions fade, American companies are expected to move forward with delayed acquisitions in the months ahead, Zhang... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 07 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
supervisor; the individual contribution is harder to measure. Finally, in open source people have greater flexibility when moving from project to project, building up knowledge and "tools" as they go. By contrast, in commercial firms people are View Details
- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
loses a star employee because it refuses to raise her salary to match a competitor's higher offer, the firm is not necessarily behaving irrationally; it may instead be constrained by an HR policy that restricts it from creating huge pay... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
minorities, according to research that involved surveying hundreds of people and studying thousands of datasets at government and social organizations. This pattern can “fuel a self-perpetuating cycle of segregation,” which may not only impede better intergroup... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
aspire to them, all true professions are, almost by definition, closed systems that tightly control and carefully restrict access to their ranks. Closure in professions need not, as some might fear in the case of management, stifle... View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
means, including Machiavellian ones, if necessary, to bring together people with conflicting goals and spur them into action. When the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry tried to restrict Honda from entering the automobile... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
request. The following day, Zuckerberg personally met with employees and posted a promise to audit and restrict access to user information by the developers of apps. He also agreed to testify before a United States congressional committee... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
create potential upside, Honeywell’s management team took a portion of the bonus pool, and distributed it to employees as restricted stock, with the idea that as the economic recovery would begin, Honeywell would be able to grow faster... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
restrictions on the public will be lifted, how customers will behave in the aftermath, and how the once-familiar environments in which your company operated will have been impacted for the long-term, if not permanently. As a result, it is... View Details
- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
surveys said they believed that at least 40 percent of newly remote employees would continue to work remotely at least some of the time, even after social distancing restrictions end. That means, however, that nearly 60 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 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
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
Potentially restricting free speech is anathema to many of the users as well as many people inside the company. It is a wrenching problem. If you look at Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, the three biggest platforms where this has become a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
they would not try to be all things to everyone. In most businesses, it is common sense to develop products and services that create unique value. For many hospitals, developing uniqueness is a significant change in mind-set and deciding what not to do is an even more... View Details