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- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
self-sufficient while not being self-sufficient ourselves?— Alfred Wise,Share Our Strength The session, led by HBS professor James E. Austin, featured three managers whose experiences highlight the challenges and benefits of thinking... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
savings difficult by changing the savings decision-making process, the time and place for savings, or the cost-benefit of savings itself. Such ideas could help low- to moderate-income households, and anyone else, build assets and put... View Details
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
Question the Right Way," is available for download [PDF]. Todd Rogers, now Executive Director of the Analyst Institute, explained more. Martha Lagace: What observations or experiences got you interested in studying conversational... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
DNA." Roberto and Levesque joined forces for the following e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: As you write in your working paper, conventional management wisdom says the first step in a change initiative is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
By day, managers run themselves ragged worrying about their A players: their stars, their rainmakers, their top 15 percent. By night, the same managers fret over their C players—their bottom 15 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
More than one decade after the fall of apartheid, and despite ambitious economic reforms by the ANC government, foreign direct investment flows into South Africa averaged around two-thirds less than investments in comparable... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration, reflects on the book's implications for managers and executives. Martha Lagace: What is there of interest to a businessperson in this book? D. Quinn Mills: This book is full of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
From the dawn of the U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869 to the widespread embrace of consumer products like cell phones and iPods in our time, the story of American business is in constant motion, never at rest—or at ease. A new volume edited and narrated View Details
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
progress in life and in business. HBS Working Knowledge asked Zaleznik to reflect on the inner life of leaders. Martha Lagace: Your book is an intellectual and introspective discussion of leadership that seems rare in the literature of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
that a lot and I think we're providing some systematic evidence now with this study," Lakhani says. He met recently with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss the work and its implications for firms. Martha Lagace: Given your research... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
all people are Utilitarians, and perhaps more important, most people are not all Utilitarian." We asked him to break it down for overtaxed managers. Martha Lagace: You want theory and policy to better agree. What is the basic problem... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
Economic difficulties need not mean that we lower our standards for leadership. If anything, we should raise our sights. New work by HBS professor Michael Beer and colleagues shows that there is still a place for what they term... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
beneficial for society. This theme was later replaced by preference for disciplinary knowledge, and finally by a market logic that regards business education as a marketable commodity rather than a... View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
apply their skills and knowledge to improve health-care systems. (A book excerpt from Designing Care follows.) Martha Lagace: How does health-care delivery fit into the greater context of health-care reform? Dr. Richard Bohmer: Broadly... View Details
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
contributed to the financial turmoil that followed. This performance has come under tremendous scrutiny by lawmakers and regulators, who are debating ways to reform the ratings industry. One prominent suggestion: increased competition.... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
they explain why company adoption of integrated reporting is essential for sustainable strategies and society. Martha Lagace: How do you define One Report? Robert G. Eccles and Michael P. Krzus: One Report is the integration of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
(Financial Times/Prentice Hall 2000). Edited by Subir Chowdhury, a consultant and author specializing in quality management, the book pulls together practical and accessible essays by twenty-six leading-edge... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
hand, while being told by her boss, "I'm taking a risk on you," with the implication that she needs more experience to capably handle it. (See Jane's Dilemma below for more). "People put you in that gendered position,"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
great gadget" and improve the educational possibilities for children in impoverished environments? Tech-savvy people as well as the socially conscious have been intrigued by the idea of "one laptop per child" since it made... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
important reason, but by no means the only one, he added. Others include communication problems, a lack of hierarchy for resolving issues—think of Ford and Firestone, and the finger-pointing on both sides—and the potential for data... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace