Quality Of Education - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

business side, too.” Elberse interviewed Johnson, Garcia, and several members of their team for her new case study, “Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson,” which she taught for the first time last month as part of her... View Details

Keywords: Re: Anita Elberse; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation

16 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice

gained after sleep may have made people less able to rule out some of the bags—making the decision harder, not easier. She hastens to add that this study can’t tell you for sure whether people picked the “best” choice—since each View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

01 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

Leading in the 21st Century is an HBS Executive Education program being held in January 2000. Professors Gary Hamel and John Kotter talk about the course and the new realities of leadership and competitive... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

25 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

society," Wagle added. "There are some very difficult places in Africa where the private sector is just not possible." Health, education and infrastructure should be under the wing of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Aug 2003
What Do You Think?

Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?

Summing Up "Good attitudes supercharge organizational performance beyond what the skill/talent level would indicate," according to Perry Miles. "Attitude is one of the strongest determinants View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

Women-owned businesses are just as financially strong and creditworthy as the average U.S. firm, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Women's Business Research. Yet women struggle more than men to acquire equity capital. Why? According to a 1999 survey,... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

facilitate the efforts of professionals there by decreasing the time required per case. It provides a good solution where expertise is limited if no one has significant thoracic experience, for example. It creates the potential for... View Details

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

30 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell

cycle(s) and get ahead of the curve. They understand the family's cash needs, now and in the future, along with its true strengths and weaknesses. They want to educate themselves about the differences... View Details

Keywords: by Jonathan Pellegrin; Food & Beverage; Retail

05 Dec 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing

productivity, says Professor Gail J. McGovern. In this Q&A, she discusses what executives can do to repair the split and introduces a new diagnostic tool for measuring marketing performance used in the HBS Executive Education program.... View Details

08 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

delivered, the way we use technology, the way pharmaceuticals are developed, the way we educate medical professionals, and who performs what kinds of services. These things are all connected, and changing... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

developed a database of the CEOs of the same companies to find out everything I could about them from a demographic and career management standpoint. What part of the country... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

19 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

2017, well before the COVID-19 pandemic increased remote work. “Two individuals have the same job and are doing the exact same kind of work. The only thing that changed is the temporal distance.” First, the team explored how being in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

your goal is a great marketing plan or a brilliant idea for a software system, it doesn't matter if it took 2 hours or 20 hours. The client is paying for the quality of the solution. Q: What do you think... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

skilled workforce, an educated populace, vibrant local suppliers, basic rule of law, and so on. Historically, American businesses invested in these resources deeply, and that helped to build many View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

welfare issues. In part this can be attributed to the rising influence of basic social scientific disciplines, which improved the quality of research but also oriented... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

26 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?

educating people about augmented reality. It’s a very clever introduction to the technology and beautifully illustrates the merging of the cyber and the physical. We’ve seen other things work similarly... View Details

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih; Video Game; Entertainment & Recreation

19 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

analyze the information exploitation dichotomy outlined above. We take the view that there are two types of exploitation: one which is beneficial to consumers, and one which is not. The first type of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

02 Jul 2014
What Do You Think?

Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?

Summing Up Is There Really a Formula for Great Leadership? The overall sense of responses to our question for the month is that the leadership stars of today—Jobs, Bezos, Gates, etc.,—should not cause us to... View Details