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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
top executive. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, we are all taking in vast amounts of new information every day and adjusting to an entirely new set of behavioral habits. In addition, most of us are dealing with unprecedented tasks and... View Details
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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
to HR to help improve the workplace for everyone.” AGE 38, SOUTH ASIAN, TECHNOLOGY, UNITED STATES 2 ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS Prior research has found that a set of organizational norms known as “masculinity contest culture” are associated... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
other multinationals immediately detected new operational and commercial approaches across their international branches and standardized and distributed them to subsidiaries. This proactive behavior toward information was not limited to... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
power of states. But the world is not flat, argues HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat. Think of it as partly globalized, or "semiglobalized." "Strategies that presume complete global integration tend to place far too much emphasis on international View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Polaroid sold more than 1.5 million stereo viewers for the film, which featured an automated assembly of a Plymouth car. The use of polarizing filters to reduce headlight glare had occupied Land's thinking since the 1920s. "I didn't set... View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
opposite way than that suggested by the social norm: they punish transgressors more severely on their birthdays, both in the realm of actual drunk driving enforcement and in an experimental lab setting where participants were given the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
big-picture concerns. A company's chief executive, he argued, is responsible for setting an organization's compass. "This is the first requisite of leadership, for unless a leader knows where he is going, any road will take him there... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
Haft (MBA/MCRP 1977) launched Crown Books in the Washington, DC, area, with plans for rapid growth and a pitch sure to set the chain apart from the growing market: lower prices. Crown’s books were discounted 10 to 40 percent every day, an... View Details
Keywords: April White
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
structure, and are more vulnerable to swings in commodity markets and government policies. Set in December 2023, the case finds TPG considering the future for Monolith, a Rise Climate portfolio company with significant impact potential... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
Authentic Leadership. "Everyone inside and outside the company is watching what they do. It is imperative that they stay focused on their True North as it sets a standard internally for principled... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
his fiction, casting young managers in manufacturing and industrial settings as his protagonists. But his focus was not on their business activities so much as on their warps, biases, emotional hang-ups, and “all other decisions of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
and cutting death rates. Brailer’s challenge is to create electronic recordkeeping standards for the medical profession and to fund construction of the computer network necessary to store and share patient data. Said Brailer: “Health-care... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
relatively low investment when they go beyond the common approaches of determining price based on intuition, competition, or a standard cost-plus-markup formula. How does this connect with your research on dynamic pricing? Many retailers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life
Large consumer banks have historically collected a lot of data on their customers, which they have used to sell standardized products. Increasingly, however, we have seen new entrants using customer data to help the consumer and provide... View Details
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
As business goes global, pressure is increasing for adoption of a single set of accounting standards worldwide. In this e-mail interview, Harvard Business School professor Gregory S. Miller discusses this... View Details
Theodore W. Waitt
a standard on all its PC models (1986), it was the first to adopt Windows as a standard (1990), and it was the first to incorporate CD-rom drives and Pentium processing technology (1994). Waitt crafted a... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
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Policymakers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
universal measurement and public reporting Link reimbursement to clinical performance using outcome reporting Set accounting standards for meaningful cost reporting in health care Accelerate the bundled... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
open source, allowing academics and others to build on its work, but Numenta also offers standard commercial licenses—like the one Cortical.io is using—to pursue commercial opportunities. The idea behind making the work open source is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
standards can be treated as part of setting direction. Coordination: Organizational structure defines how individuals in the organization are grouped into units, and how these units coordinate with each... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
leadership during the Tylenol crises of the 1980s set the standard for corporate responsibility. Burke has been hailed as one of the ten greatest CEOs of all time by Fortune magazine. Lillian Lincoln Lambert... View Details