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- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
research on financial markets and regulation and who, in many cases, have held leadership positions in the financial sector, think about the bill and its intended (and unintended) consequences? Below, HBS faculty members Robert Steven... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
system that impacts consumer behavior, so we help you figure out what happens here. Why does this product or service not get adopted? What do people think about these things? Ultimately, our work will speak... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
P. Norton aims to make strategy a continual process. The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage shows managers how to weave organizational principles into a more effective management system that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
Others identified factors accounting for too much focus. Yadeed Lobo said: "I think focus in organizations might have its roots in competitive strategy, intense focus on differentiation or cost consciousness." Edward Hare put it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
value proposition and create a competitive advantage. Managers don’t often take this diagnostic step to understand the systemic issues, in many cases because they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable. “Leaders often feel like they need... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
"The development of modern sales management is an uniquely American story." Why do you think this is? Walter Friedman: In the early nineteenth century, many nations, certainly all the European ones, had traveling peddlers and... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
case study in 1994 when Fahey was CEO of Time Life, ironically facing many of the same challenges with earlier generations of media and technology. Fifteen years later it was an opportunity to observe an elite general manager at work in a completely different... View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
structure driven by the accelerators." Two Is Better A dual operating system is a nod to what Kotter believes is some of the most interesting management thinking of the past few decades, from Michael... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 21 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?
Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
Professor Srikant M. Datar in a recent case study, Data Science at Target, co-written with research associate Caitlin N. Bowler. “Target had to make this big shift from thinking only about retailing to also View Details
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
can be rich in resources, providing both financial backing and mentoring, the authors say. “If you are in a society that has relatively few safety nets, both financial and other types of safety nets, then doing it within the construct of a family support View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
solid waste is managed in the Big Apple. “I think you have with her a very creative and innovative public servant,” says Steven A. Cohen, an authority on waste management in New York City who is the former director of the Research Program... View Details
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
profound impact on the inclusivity of the systems you are creating," says Luca, who has also coauthored a new case study, Racial Discrimination on Airbnb: The Role of Platform Design. "Platform companies should View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Role Model
student in high school, she graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering before moving on to MIT for a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics and a position at Orbital Sciences Corporation, where she served as senior systems... View Details
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
investors in the infrastructure funding system and shows that there are creative tools that can be used. It focuses on five major areas: the problematic state of fuel taxes; the increasing promise of user fees; innovations in debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?
making decisions often decide to trust their anecdotal experience rather than AI’s interpretation of the data. The trouble is, sometimes decision makers think they understand the inner workings of an AI View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
done a good job on diversity at the top, but we haven't had the pull through at the levels below that I think we need to have. And I take responsibility for that. Neeley: You do? Frazier: I do. Neeley: And will you act to change it?... View Details