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- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
was careful to build and test a prototype. His college radio show was small potatoes in terms of listeners, but he proved his ability to pull off the new concept. Finally, and perhaps most important, he rapidly built his own credibility... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
in terms of a looming competitor for the same FDI they try to attract, whereas firms based in Taiwan and Hong Kong view a rising China as representing an enormous investment and trading opportunity. The latter two economies have strong... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Power and Influence - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Power and Influence Course Number 2056 Associate Professor Lakshmi Ramarajan Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Paper Excludes enrollment in Power and Influence for Positive Impact (2055) in the fall term... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
elections work and how we make our laws. Their bracing assessment and practical recommendations cut through the endless debate about various proposed fixes, such as term limits and campaign finance reform. The result: true political... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
In Rangan’s view, the sector is poised on the brink of transformation, a topic he enthusiastically expounded upon during a recent interview in his Morgan Hall office. The terms “social enterprise” and “nonprofit” seem to be used... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
consultant in the energy industry. What’s energy going to look like in 2030? I think about that in terms of megatrends. Urbanization is a megatrend, especially in Asia and Africa. Those areas are not tied into an existing hydrocarbon... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
Administration I study business leaders, government leaders, religious leaders, social activists, and other individuals — past and present — who exercise real, worthy impact. As a historian, I don’t see huge differences among political and business leaders in View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic Indian users of oDesk in other countries around the world. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
beauty, dignity, and value to architectural design. I was really looking to have a design that was not only transformational in terms of innovation, creativity, design, but also something that resonates back to the community. And I knew... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
much time apart, and, two, this is not the life that we had imagined for ourselves in terms of having a really good partnership and thinking about starting a family,” Gordon says. Gordon’s deep network allows her to provide clients with... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
the new shoppers aren’t “higher quality” in terms of basket size. The takeaway for apparel retailers With the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown measures, a segment of new online customers has emerged in the apparel industry. These customers... View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
hierarchical organizing and identifies three categories of research: post-bureaucratic organizations, humanistic management, and organizational democracy. Despite this extensive prior work, scholarly understanding of radical decentralization remains limited. Using the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
Abstract—The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption relative to leisure rises, in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
members of society to meet their needs and wants. This account is contrasted with prevailing accounts in scholarly literature (e.g., shareholder primacy and stakeholder theory) that frame corporate purpose and responsibility in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
economic and geopolitical scenarios. As an example, this book takes as a starting point the breakdown of old alliances caused by the end of the Cold War, and projects how the world will look in terms of alliances in 2010, 2015, and 2020.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
guy who calls the guy.'" When David Lax, my coauthor on 3-D Negotiation: Creating and Claiming Value for the Long Term (forthcoming from Harvard Business School Press), and I were advising a client who was seeking to sell his... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
problem: Board members are time-pressured part-timers who lack the knowledge they need to successfully oversee the companies they serve. The remedy isn't necessarily in staggered terms or requirements for outside directors—rather it's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
differentiated, personalized look. “People live differently today,” says Haupt. Asparagus tongs, for example, are a thing of the past. Multiuse items — like Steuben’s Magnolia bowl, which doubles as a caviar server when flipped over — are in demand. AN EMOTIONAL BUY... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
better health when we are over the crisis? Not just in terms of social justice, but economic prosperity as well? As the most trusted player, shouldn’t civil society have a pivotal role when we get back to reimagining capitalism, when the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
The survey showed, for instance, that 1) the highly educated, ambitious women and men of HBS don't differ much in terms of what they value and hope for in their lives and careers; 2) it simply isn't true that a large proportion of HBS... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne