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- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
day. If participants reached their weight loss goal by the end of the trial, they got to keep the money, thus doubling their deposits. But if they failed to reach the goal, they lost all the cash. Meanwhile, a control group of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
care at religious mass gatherings. However, in 2015, at the Kumbh Mela in Nashik and Trimbakeshwar, the state government extended its services to include a hypertension-screening program. We examine here the value and implications of such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
knowledge of a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules. An entrepreneurial firm with limited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
"Humans have evolved a leadership brain," says HBS professor emeritus Paul R. Lawrence. "Good leaders are people with a conscience who respect and reward all the four drives of other stakeholders [the drive to acquire, to... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
several of which are described in our book. All these companies compete in markets that have long existed, and in which they were minor players up to a few years ago. None offers products or services that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
and gotten more efficient in manufacturing, operations, supply chains, and shared service initiatives. But the focus of productivity improvements is shifting, because the biggest opportunity for improvements at more firms is now on the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
believes that all of St. HOPE's other activities—economic development, civic leadership development, and the arts—are interdependent with transforming urban education. Raises questions of growth, including the challenges of replicating a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
although research on this topic has often focused on high technology manufacturing companies, I have written extensively on the service sector, on business groups and alliances rather than hierarchical corporations, and on the different... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Man, and operates ships that travel around the world. In analyzing the choices he faces, students must consider how the initial capitalization of Navigator contributed to its financial distress, evaluate several restructuring plans from a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
actually accomplish. Why aren't nonprofits more accountable and transparent with all this money? That's a very big issue in this sector because there is no common measure or framework to assess whether these organizations are... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
aren't doing well." His group came to the conclusion that there was no logical economic reason why all job growth had to be in suburbs. Indeed, he said, they saw plenty of reasons for bringing jobs into the inner city. Sprint was one... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
founder of Celtel, which when sold had over 24 million mobile phone subscribers across Africa, and Ela Bhatt, Indian activist and founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India. The interviews, many on video, are intended to help researchers, students, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
along partisan lines, from overhauling the US corporate tax to punishing companies who choose to move elsewhere. On July 22, 2014, Mihir A. Desai, Miuzho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School, testified before... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
passion for his work, his deep attachment to both rigor and relevance, were our inspiration," said Associate Professor Julie Battilana, who organized the conference with colleagues Shon R. Hiatt, Mukti Khaire, and Christopher Marquis, View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
reduces prices, improves quality, and expands choices. The essential problem with the health care industry is that it has been shielded from consumer control—by employers, insurers, and the government. As a result, costs have exploded as choices have narrowed. Today,... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which was created by the passage of the 1906 Federal Food and Drugs Act, regulates companies and industries accounting for one-quarter of all consumer spending, roughly $1.5 trillion worth of... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
personally. My own view is that the economic consequences of our present health care system are disastrous and grievously injure the economy. It's not getting any better, and none of the cures work. Q: What your book points out is that View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
during financial crises. A handful of black entrepreneurs (e.g., Oprah Winfrey and Robert Smith) are among the wealthiest Americans, and though they represent the exception, their influence is nonetheless widespread as their businesses... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
thrive in the 21st century. Kotter: My sense is that the great companies in the next few decades will be those that have purged themselves of the overmanaged, underled, Dilbert-like silliness that is all too common nowadays. They will... View Details
Keywords: by Staff