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- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
Our most popular stories are those that help readers become better managers and outstanding leaders. Here are our most-read stories and faculty research papers in 2019. Tell us... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets
Are international firms that interact with U.S. capital, labor, and product markets more likely to be more transparent than companies without those interactions? In this e-mail interview, HBS Suraj Srinivasan delves into a recent working... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
wins were more frequently associated with the positive emotions and intrinsic motivation that in turn generated the creativity needed to develop innovative approaches to problems. That doesn't mean that View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
'leadership'." Today's leadership heroes, however, stimulated debate about just what constitutes leadership. It is an important discussion, as several pointed out. Paul Stavrand put it this way: " we need to be concerned about the outcomes of business View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
process to protect against the chaos that would come if we brought it out in the open. I agree that it's not going to lead to a great outcome if we do it all just from one side. Silverthorne: Let's talk about businesses. As business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
model? A: Employers that currently provide insurance benefits advocate consumer-driven health care because it cannot be worse than the present managed care system, whose costs escalate at double-digit [rates] while quality concerns View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home
huge if the company is based in a major metro. What are the biggest obstacles for companies that want to allow remote work? Choudhury: I feel the biggest obstacle is changing the organizational processes for how communication View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
increase in pay-for-performance all over the United States and increasingly all over the world, he said. But his conclusions on the rocky process of conception, design, and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
HP, like Merck, has a basic interest in increasing the supply of scientists. NSRC has focused on curriculum design and teacher training. HP's technical advice and the active involvement of its scientists... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
in moving out of lower-value into higher-value paths as technologies and markets changed. Before World War II those managers became proficient in monitoring the processes of... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
for instance. All these considerations resonate in India, where it's estimated that some 400 million people are moving into urban areas. They all can't go to Mumbai and Calcutta. They will have to go to new cities. Might there be best... View Details
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
partition the price in the hope that consumers will be fooled and overlook small fees altogether can only backfire. Previous work, in contrast, focused on the mistakes that people make when processing... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
knowledge workers confronted with a barrage of data and distractions delivered by new information technologies? A reluctance on the part of managers to relinquish "ownership" over activities View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
trusted, capable person in the firm, to oversee the company's management process surrounding this issue. Jane's dilemma is this: Should she take on the responsibility? How does it coincide, or not, with her... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
corrupt practices in business and government in his country. Of course, dealing with China's hypersensitive national propaganda apparatus means that Wang has to be especially delicate in choosing whom to go... View Details
- 05 Apr 2021
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?
senior corporate manager and a highly regarded teacher of future leaders. He cites, for example, lessons he learned working with former Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack. Among other things, they included the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
families. As Professor of Management Practice and co-head of the HBS Entrepreneurial and Service Management unit,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
Harvard Business School started its Japan Research Office in December 2001—smack in the middle of an incredibly turbulent time for the country's economy. The boom years of the 1970s and 1980s—when Japanese View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
model fits the practice of teleradiology. The article, titled "Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services," was written by Huckman; Jonathan R. Clark... View Details