Leadership And Managing People - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

the investment in IT as the investment in standards." The second characteristic, said Upton, is network effects. "Think about the value of owning the first telephone. The value of owning the first telephone is zero. It's only valuable when someone else gets... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

13 Feb 2006
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The Hidden Market for Babies

limits to parental choice. Where should we draw the line on what kinds of children people can create, and what kinds of technology they can employ? We've already said no to reproductive cloning. There may... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

01 Feb 2000
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Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

Beginning with the influential work of Professor Emeritus Robert N. Anthony in the 1960s and 1970s, Harvard Business School has given a prominent place to research and course development focusing on the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

12 Jan 2004
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Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?

in lean and mean headquarters will be difficult for managers to let go of? A: Lean and mean will be hard to let go of, and to some extent that is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
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Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

methodology. The need to put together a diverse group, say Leonard and Swap, immediately challenges the assumptions of many managers, who tend to subconsciously select people like themselves in training... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

17 Apr 2006
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Resisting the Seductions of Success

now. One manager recently told me this about his life: "I wanted the promotion so badly I could taste it. The truth is that as much as I tried to quell my personal ambition, it was still a strong and... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

26 Nov 2001
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Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

economically self-sufficient and prosperous through entrepreneurship, the event was the seventh in a nationwide series. I think we need people with that kind of courage and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Jan 2003
What Do You Think?

China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?

overestimating the speed and magnitude of possible investment returns. First, what's the amount of risk at the macroeconomic level? Wenbin Guo suggests that it is lower than most people think, primarily... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

than corporate managers who are trying to move money from "cash cows" to "growth businesses." Q: It sounds like supermarkets and chain stores are starting to dominate wine... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

07 Dec 2009
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Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

recession. The financial crisis opened the door to massive public interventions in the world's economies, in which the government served as venture capitalist. But these efforts focused on the most troubled and poorly View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

25 Aug 2003
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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

18 Sep 2013
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Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

Silence can be experienced by different people as liberating or debilitating—that is, as freedom from unhelpful constraints or as a source of confusion and even paralysis. Adding enough vocal elements to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

28 Feb 2005
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How to Harness Auction Fever

Internet Auctions" currently in press in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Malhotra says the research carries lessons for business people who bid on everything from... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Web Services; Technology

06 Sep 2005
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The Best Place for Retirement Funds

choice of non-pension assets or capital structure. In the late 1990s, as the focus of tax-deferred investing drifted away from defined benefit plans and toward individually managed retirement accounts, a... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

19 Nov 2010
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The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book

lost trust in business. Whether it be the environment, health care, or making sure that people have access to information, I can't think of any major problem that society confronts today that can be effectively solved unless business... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria; Accounting

18 Sep 2000
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Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

venture capital for people with real guts," quips Esty. "Most of the projects are start-ups, yet they cost something on the order of $5 billion, not $5 million." And all too often, he adds,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

24 Feb 2003
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In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

blessed with a very good government—committed leaders, well-trained civil servants, and a notable lack of corruption. The country's first president, Sir Seretse Khama, was exemplary in this regard. The country's View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

strike many people as controversial. One would be the downsizing of Scott Paper Company under "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap, in which the company eliminated approximately a third of its workforce. Another would be the employee buyout of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

technology is being diverted to the creation of more variations on basic ideas faster instead of “an economy based on new products/platforms/ideas.” Donald Shaw cited “problems in finding qualified people to hire.” He also said that,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

share the remaining 20 percent among themselves. For investments below $2 million, the XTV principals had sole discretion in whether and when to invest. For investments over $2 million, an oversight group called the View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

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