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- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
happens, it seems ugly and one-sided, but if you persist, this is what you get.” It’s clear that the business community still has its work cut out for it, particularly with research showing that women don’t... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
International, was a pioneer in the evolution of microfinance. It began in 1961 as a sort of pre-Peace Corps program working on community development with the poor in Latin America. In the 1970s it experimented with View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
price of diesel fuel. Purchase the case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508074 Adelphia Communications Corp.'s Bankruptcy Harvard Business School Case 208-071 In 2002, a massive accounting fraud View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
this way: "When the world is full of surprises bosses can hardly control drastic actions to keep surviving and that means employees will get their share of surprises However a good leader will always View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
Summing Up Fixing the Way We Work There is a lot wrong with the way we work, but very little of this is due to new networking capabilities or communications technology. Neither can we blame increasing globalization View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
offering more ways of tracing and communicating such activities," says Healy. (He wrote an article article on such initiatives in the Harvard Business Review with HBS Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna.) If... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
schedule to be productive. I wanted to discuss skills that have been critical in my own career. Communication is one—reading, writing, and speaking. Another is how you operate within your organization View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
when he began his own pottery workshop in 1759. Nevertheless, each of the three, she writes, instinctively grasped the fundamentals of earning long-term customer trust and loyalty. Effective brand creation View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter
great customer service is no longer the responsibility of just one department. Creating the customer-centric organization. (12,182 visits) What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style Researchers use machine-learning to look for links between a CEO's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
always been alternative forms of loan capital available, including credit unions, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), merchant cash advances, equipment leasing and factoring products.... View Details
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
and the communities they live/work in, (he has observed) dramatic productivity increments no layoffs, no additional technology, 'just' increased employee engagement." Does he have something here? What... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
Teixeira, which identifies the ingredients necessary to create online videos so compelling that viewers will not only want to watch them but also actively seek them out and share them with friends, family, View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
control, and contractual flexibility," they maintain. "Thus it looms as a potential complement or substitute for all of the major categories of existing media and appears capable of serving a wide... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
describe, simply and clearly, management's view of the relationships between financial and nonfinancial metrics. Companies like Philips, Novo Nordisk, Natura, and United... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
and biosecurity community has been banging the drum about for years: the US has massively underinvested in public health. As in so many other areas of the nation's infrastructure, the elements of our health... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
make communication richer and bring people closer. But in a small practice, where face-to-face contact is more common and effective, introducing an EHR might make View Details
- 06 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Art of American Advertising
Card. Photo: Bates Trade Card Collection, Harvard Business School "The challenges that marketers faced as the United States grew into a national market because of changes in transportation and View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
state pharmaceutical licensing exam, opened a drugstore with her husband in Stockton in 1915. Following his death, she became the sole proprietor and later opened two additional drugstores in town. Gleason emerged as a stalwart defender... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
expectations of profit. The standard usage definition will hark back to the older one: an anchor in a community where a family can live, work, and play. Future generations may wonder why Americans for a... View Details
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
innovation, and just by ordinary people in their everyday work lives or their everyday lives in their communities and societies.” Amabile’s paper cites research showing that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel