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- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
ambitions, and my personal life. Books that are on my list to read are Shantaram: A Novel, by Gregory David Roberts, Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, A Daughter of Han,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
colleagues on the Harvard Business School faculty, legendary teacher and thinker Tony Athos. In an organization with a culture of long hours and FILO (first in last out) norms (borrowing from David Physick's comment), Tony liked to sit... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
appointments go wrong Let’s begin by taking a look at three examples of poor leadership at public companies and addressing what went wrong. Then, I will recommend five ways boards can ensure they appoint the right leader as CEO: General... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
entrepreneurship. Several questioned whether organization size is the appropriate variable. C.J. Cullinane attributed it to "bureaucracy." David Wittenberg said that "Culture, not size, is the determinant." Adam... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wired and Black: Focus on Careers
continue to learn, and plan for the long term rather than retirement at 30. "The economic changes allow us to change the rules and make new rules," said panelist and HBS professor David A. Thomas. "More students are really... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
of the study, Alvin Silk, Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus, and Joel Weissman, associate professor, department of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School. The Physicians Report ran in the April issue of the journal Health Affairs, and was... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
where a company seems weighted down by the bounds of its original start-up business model, a lack of experience by its founder(s), and an accelerating, expense-fueled burn rate through working capital and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
School—Gary Pisano, David Upton, and Steven Wheelwright—show how a well-designed operations function can become a strategic competitive weapon. Their book is titled Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the Competitive Edge... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, has used music and singing to help staffers think in unconventional ways. Poet David Whyte brings poetry to corporations such as Merck and Procter & Gamble to stir creativity View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
By now, it’s an expected right-of-passage. As you enter credit card information for an online purchase, up pops two familiar words: “Privacy Notice.” Does seeing those words make you more confident about the transaction, knowing that the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
with the downside of thinking slow. So here is what my gut tells me about what you said this month: Thinking slow, as Daniel Kahneman calls it in his recent book by that name, is important under circumstances of high risk, uncertain... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
measures; 2) customers; 3) internal processes; and 4) learning and growth. Developed by HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan, chairman of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, and David P. Norton, co-founder with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
as well. Transparency is defined by Don Tapscott and David Ticoll in their book, The Naked Corporation, as "accessibility of information to stakeholders of institutions, regarding matters that affect... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
the flexibility that workers not only want but must have if they're going to handle their dual responsibilities." David Lovelace asserts that it is "clear that employees with higher morale will be more productive. An... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
several members of the quartet. Time spent rehearsing was time not spent performing and recording. They did eventually record the entire string quartet cycle on Nimbus. Folks who are able to play the way these guys play can get lots of gigs and are paid good rates... View Details
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
Interorganizational management in a channel of distribution is a complex matter. But it doesn’t hold a candle to the complexity of stakeholder capitalism, as suggested by responses to this month’s column on the subject. Reading them, it’s... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
Here are the 20 most popular stories from 2007. How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater? Summing up the many responses, Jim Heskett says that the mix of control, delegation, and theater employed by successful... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
At the same time, he adds, there will be "a new set of management and pop psychology books with dubious claims ." Among the potential benefits making it highly relevant, according to David Skinner, is that "its output might... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 31 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water
"job" that customers were "hiring" a milkshake to do. KFC’s Explosive Growth in China In China, Yum! Brands opens a KFC restaurant every day. But this is not the KFC you know in America. A case study written by View Details