History Of The Book - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Apr 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

wondering whether they have anything to do with one another. The first is a news release from The Conference Board reporting that its most recent periodic poll showed that only 45 percent View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

06 Dec 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

protections has done little to manage the risk in many of these politically unstable environments. Professor Louis T. Wells, coauthor of a new View Details

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

marketing seminar on May 8, is part of a forthcoming book that focuses on identity brands that deliver extraordinary customer value over time. The most powerful brands are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

the results of his inquiry in a new book The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World, which deals head on with View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

What managers must take away from this book is that the jobs in their organization will only be fulfilling to their employees if they provide opportunities to reasonably satisfy all four drives. Jobs must be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

look at portfolios because that’s a natural way to measure risk, and then we needed an area where we could actually observe some scandals and misconduct happening,” Minor says. “Hmm, where could that be? Politicians! It turns out they have a rich View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

01 Oct 2001
What Do You Think?

Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?

quality, and delegating authority to frontline production workers to shut down a billion-dollar production line in the interests of quality improvement. More recently, Gary Hamel, in his View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

David Upton's Alumni Conference report on the state of information technology for business-to-business began with a lesson in technology history because, said View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

obsolete, and (3) it makes suspect much of what we do as managers. Consider two examples that came to my attention this past week. One is a book by Charles Jacobs titled Management Rewired, which concludes... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

03 Feb 2020
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?

She backs it up with extensive research, much of it her own. Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, builds her View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

management of false negatives is much more complex. False negatives are not only often difficult to recognize, but there is also no single, sure-fire way to deal with them. Meanwhile, the downside to... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical

08 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer

In his book Getting to Giving: Fundraising the Entrepreneurial Way, published in 2011, Stevenson, with Shirley Spence, details an approach to fundraising that is almost Zen-like in its philosophy, even as it... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

11 Aug 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

be able to relate to this as well. Put us in the context for this case. The protagonist it sounds like might be China itself? Bill: Well since my area is China, it's China in part. But I'm writing a View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

panelists at a Global Alumni Conference session addressing the topic "Global Brands: Connecting with Consumers across Boundaries," chaired by HBS associate professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

24 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

Editor's note:When it comes to improving your leadership abilities, Professor Robert Steven Kaplan is a big believer in starting with a look in the mirror. In fact, he wrote a book on that subject: What To... View Details

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’

benefit. In the first instance, observing that millions of people connect to friends and strangers on social platforms, some companies have chosen to enter the fray in a... View Details

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

like a trained oncologist? How about setting up an online competition to find out? An article being published April 18 in JAMA Oncology, a journal of the American Medical Association, describes View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

05 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

requires four seats at least." His current projects include histories of German management thought and German capitalism, but working on the Porsche cases has given him a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing

27 May 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global

and run major infrastructure projects such as power and water. But a set of new property protections has done little to manage the risk in many of these politically unstable... View Details

21 Mar 2016
HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

actually booking and get a commission of that?” Q: You call the case “managing online reviews.” As I read it, I thought the notion View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel

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