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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
used to reside only with the retailers. There was an information asymmetry that created a power dynamic in retail, but that is gone. Consumers have stormed the castle, and the hard work for many companies is... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
economic theory with field experiments. "Field experiments give you scientific rigor while being close to practice," says. "Unless you really have a bulletproof argument that you can't poke holes in, it's hard to change prior beliefs."... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
Retail and Luxury Goods Conference on April 3. Chadwick noted that while department stores used to be where shoppers went for everything from baby clothes to furniture to power tools, many stores have now limited their assortment and... View Details
- 21 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design
essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. Visit Date: January 5, 2023 Twelve days,... View Details
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
government. After all, many organizations rely on government for fair or outright supportive legislation. This is not a simple decision driven only by personal feelings. On one level, it requires analyzing the economic consequences of any particular action, something... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
immigrants are responsible for a lot of great companies,” says William Kerr, the Dmitri V. D’Arbeloff — MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “After all, they argue, [Google founder] Sergey Brin was an immigrant—look at the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
global leaders I meet are beginning to think quite hard about addressing their role in these problems," Henderson said. "There is so much power at firms. They have the ability to make a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
give important insight ...." Stephanie Fuentes said that "It's not hard if you take the time to do the planning and preparation." But the comments of the first group leave us wondering whether theory serves us well when it... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
joke and saying, ‘Am I being politically correct?’ is also insulting, and someone needs to let that person know. That’s when you start to tilt the balance in the culture.” Place women in powerful positions Sexual harassment is a View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
trigger a crippling default on an amended loan agreement, Morton has to take a hard look at the numbers, industry trends, strategy considerations, shareholder interests, and several other financing options and come up with a plan to save... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty
As Time magazine's national political correspondent, Karen Tumulty counts among her confidants some of the country's most powerful and influential people. But that doesn't mean she's forgotten her days at the San Antonio Light, where she... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
hard for multinationals to figure out the value of South African companies and affects their assessments of potential partners. Executives would do well to identify a country's power centers and figure out... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
But in most scenarios, distribution channels, taken as a whole, seem more like a repository of lost opportunities than an effective delivery system that appropriately serves and rewards all participants. Powerful channel members routinely... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
What Fellowships Make Possible
the salary, sector, or location. The impact of the fellowship program is hard to overstate. In addition to the significant benefits to the recipients themselves, there are countless indirect beneficiaries, including other HBS students,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
panelists were collectively bullish on solar energy, electric drive technology that powers hybrid and electric cars, and biofuels (including ethanol). By contrast, they were cautiously optimistic about clean coal, nuclear power, and... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
computers from an experimental technology into a commercially viable, enterprise-grade tool that will be exponentially more powerful than today’s digital computers. Any sector that relies on computers for simulation, optimization, machine... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
for cosmetics needed to be more customer focused, so in 1999 she launched Bluemercury, a retailer of high-end beauty products. Perhaps the most obvious evidence that Beck’s thoughtful strategy and hard work have disrupted the beauty... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
institutions to leverage their procurement power to support entrepreneurs of color. As part of our work, we were able to triple our private institutions’ annual spend with local Black and Brown-owned companies, shifting over $15 million... View Details
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Rewiring the Workplace: Behavioral Economics and the Future of Inclusive Organizations - Blog: RGE Report
belong to dominant groups (white, male, heterosexual, etc.) . If an organization can steer managers, employees, and even senior leaders toward active choices, this makes it hard for defaults to determine decisions and more likely that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
race because they are so efficient and, as a result, generate enormous prosperity. Moreover, real competition is a powerful driver of innovation. It’s not surprising that nearly every developing country is trying View Details