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26 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

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Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

Business School professors who have signed the petition, and asked them to share why they openly oppose the Executive Order. Here are their initial responses. David B. Yoffie, Max & Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration: Early last Saturday... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Decoding the Artful Sidestep

during political debates by posting the question asked for the duration of the politicians' answers. Mike and I expect this will increase the penalty for dodging a question, and in the intermediate term reduce dodging. Does it work and what other steps can be taken?... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

contributor to this column, Stever Robbins, was provoked to send me an email that helps sum up the further questions that these views pose for us. In his words, "One way or another, we will become sustainable. I just hope we do it... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

Professor Herzlinger shared her vision for health care in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. Herzlinger's next book, Consumer-Driven Health Care, will be published in January 2003 by... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

These candidates are trying to adjust to what the voters care about.” You Might Also Like: Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace? Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

27 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 27

important lessons about mixing family and business. Now looking to raise venture capital, Thiers has just received an email from a general partner at a top venture capital firm, proposing another meeting and asking her to bring to the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

professors (the most likely group to have strong job stability), PhDs/postdoctoral students (the least stable), and founders who had previously been employed at larger firms, small firms, and startups. In an email exchange, we asked Roche... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

not yours.” (Tarikh Korula) You should expect to commit a minimum of two to three hours per month with a coach and many offer email or text touchpoints between a regular cadence of sessions. If properly trained and experienced, external... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

10 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

do you have to stay home and care for your young child? Those things seem to be the bottleneck.” Just 5 percent of the total scientists responding to the emailed query reported working fewer than 42 hours weekly before the pandemic... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Health

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

information, we couldn't have accessed it effectively anyway. Email systems were not widely available, let alone mobile devices with capacity to access the data. Now the capacity to store and access information through cloud computing is... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

06 Jan 2011
What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

large-size organization that has become wedded to the economies and convenience of the Internet? For example, assuming that email even exists five years from now, will we be able to use it for business purposes? Will large data files have... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

05 Oct 2016
What Do You Think?

Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

think? Original Column Let’s start with a confession. I’m confused about what to believe when it comes to United States (and global) economic growth, employment, and social inequality. I suspect I’m not alone. On the one hand, I become enthusiastic reading my View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Jan 2015
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

executives assumed that their private email would not be made public. There is another angle to the incident, however. It can be viewed as an extreme example of corporate transparency, however unintended it may have been. Personal... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Break the Expert’s Curse

a beginner, that could actually have powerful implications for how advising takes place in an organization. It has implications for how experts can better understand those who have less experience than they do." Note to managers: If your organization is interested in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

an hour, or 90 minutes at the most. There are tremendous diminishing returns in lengthier meetings. When you only have an hour, you don't waste time on nonproductive tangents. You also need to think about how you structure the meeting. When meeting materials arrive in... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge Feedback or ideas to share? Email the... View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

07 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

small-business owners can take now Mills offers three recommendations to cash-strapped business owners: Focus on social media and email to reach customers. The coronavirus pandemic forced many analog companies to embrace digital... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service

03 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 3

1990s to the 2000s and how the emergence of SecondMarket provided liquidity to privately held companies like iContact, an email and social marketing software-as-a-service (SaaS) company. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

Harvard Business School professor Stuart Gilson fielded some questions regarding his new book in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean SilverthorneSilverthorne: When should a company consider a major restructuring? Are... View Details