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02 Jul 2014
What Do You Think?

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

Resolve," Harvard Business Review, January 2001, pp. 67-76. James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (New York: HarperBusiness, 1994). Bill George, Authentic Leadership:... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

the older worker is shown to the door," said Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr, who recently cowrote a working paper called Skilled Immigration and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Financial Services

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

And business schools, with the exception of a few like Harvard Business School, do not ask students to reflect on their values and define who they are and then help them see how these values relate to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

loving family” As with the work that won the Nobel Prize, “with Wagaroo, we’re trying to solve some standard economic problems related to market design,” says Exley, who joined View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

unintended, but insidious, outcome. By labeling everyone a customer, the organization becomes confused about its purpose and whom it is designed to serve. If everyone is a customer, then no one is—and focus on View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

there, but I don't think that's going to happen in my lifetime, though I do expect to see changes. Right now women represent between 35 to 40 percent of the applicants to business schools. I think Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”

optimism were New Jersey Senator and former Goldman Sachs co-head Jon S. Corzine, and Ernst & Young chairman James S. Turley. In assessing the current business climate at the Restoring Confidence in... View Details

Keywords: by Catherine Walsh

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

corporations to local projects, the WDC would create profitable endeavors in order to reduce poverty permanently and irreversibly. As Harvard Business School Professor Ray Goldberg has pointed out, such... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

22 Oct 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Motivate Me, Please

SolStock Former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy was known to criticize staff for being "coin-operated" instead of mission-driven. Understanding what motivates good performance is crucial for managers to master. Here is a collection of stories from our... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

that the prices are right, because they usually are," says Harvard Business School finance professor Lauren H. Cohen, who serves as an editor of Management Science. "From there, you can look for... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

27 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey

of the costliest, according to an analysis of microdata from large retailers by Harvard Business School Professor Alberto Cavallo. In a forthcoming article in the Journal of... View Details

Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua

05 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

Mary Tripsas, Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School, is interested in how radical technological change transforms industries, and how such change affects... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

In 2000, The Entrepreneurial Manager was introduced into the required first-year MBA curriculum. The course—and its presence in the first... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

10 Jan 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can "lean" productions methods improve service industries? How can a... 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

21 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

fighting intolerance and religious extremism. All of which makes her seemingly an unusual interview subject for Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets series, sponsored by the HBS Business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

In an email interview, Harvard Business School professor James Austin spoke with HBS Working Knowledge managing editor Carla Tishler about his work on collaboration and his ongoing research.Tishler: You talk about companies transitioning... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

from the UN and the World Bank. Trying a few projects and seeing how they worked would risk little. Q: You have had a long-time interest in studying developing countries and View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

07 Aug 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

centers, to some extent, on whether there should be a publicly administered alternative to the private health care system, as opposed to other countries in which private care is supplementary to the public... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

03 Feb 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?

prestigious school, an award, or even a particular job that you’ve always prized? Students in my Harvard Business School MBA classes often expressed the notion that they were “admissions mistakes.” In my... View Details