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- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
wireless networks and cloud technologies, advertisers and others can predict our future behavior, often before we realize what we are going to do. It’s a short step from prediction to thought control (through vehicles such as fake news... View Details
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
perspective on the organization. Since our focus reflects the preeminence of the Balanced Scorecard as the vehicle through which strategy is described and executed, an OSM is typically an outgrowth of a good scorecard program. Such a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
market and accumulated expatriate savings overseas provided them with funds to expand on a greater scale, though it also created governance structures which were more dependent on contracts and relationships than equity. Though joint stock companies were used as View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
transform Apple into the vehicle to fulfill his ambition, Jobs had to whip the company into shape. His goal was not only to make a dent in the universe but also perhaps, in the far-off and unimaginable future, to put himself on par with... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jul 2021
- What Do You Think?
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
(Image credit: iStockphoto/skynesher) I will always remember November 11, 1977 as the day I drove a Ford Pinto into the employee parking lot of the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit. My vehicle was the only Ford product in a sea... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
first star men and women. Better yet, companies such as SpaceX and Orbital ATK (now a division of Northrup Grumman) have actually proven their launch vehicles by delivering satellites or payloads to extraterrestrial destinations. The... View Details
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
strategy or culture? What do you think? Original Column Two pieces of news that hit the business press in recent weeks illustrate situations in which leadership timing has been called into question. The first concerns Volkswagen’s notorious, apparently conscious effort... View Details
- 14 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving
“I suspect this may actually be lower than the true extent of unsafe multitasking, given the fact that not everyone would easily admit to a behavior that is recognized as problematic, if not illegal.” Almost 43,000 people died in vehicle... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
white people looted their homes and businesses. “The case brings to life the enormous success of the Greenwood district, or ‘Black Wall Street,’ the economic and psychological damage that its destruction wrought, and the question of what to do about it. By creating a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
has reinforced the perception of critics that markets for the digital currency—used primarily as an investment vehicle as it is not widely accepted as payment for goods and services—are little more than global casinos operating with... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
emerge in the assembled group. Many of these vehicles for analysis only address substantial failures, however, rather than identifying and learning from smaller ones. An example of effective analysis of failure is found in the meticulous... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
to support these sets of well-meaning folks who are trying to do the right thing." Tufano was invited to describe his work for HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: How did you get interested in studying different vehicles for savings?... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
challenge we see in platforms is that they are vehicles for good as well as evil. And the vast majority of platforms in the last 10 years were only focused on the good and not on the potential for evil. There are two theories about how to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2009
- Op-Ed
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
prenegotiated with dealers to do so. And, now the promotion is over, expect year-on-year sales to be lower than they would have been because so much consumer demand has been concentrated in the promotion period. And were these C4C sales helping poor people trade in... View Details
- 10 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: The Coming World Oil Crisis
silver bullets that can solve this problem—not more drilling, greater vehicle fuel efficiency, electric cars, or renewable energy. Political and business leaders must support these measures and more; whatever can help avert a major... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
disclosure policy should focus not only on what information to disclose, but also on how and where to design disclosure Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54177 Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54963 Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Capital By: Lerner, Josh, Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang Abstract—This paper undertakes a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
funding." “I can't imagine this will become an investment vehicle with attractive average returns” In other words, if companies are able to demonstrate a game-changing technology, or be lean enough to succeed without a second round... View Details