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Ndemo, Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Nairobi’s Business School Show Hide Details Concepts Transformation Journey Leadership in the Age of AI Featured Exercises Determine your organization’s AI maturity View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
filled with peacekeeping, nation building, and a whole range of what we call "operations other than war." Not surprisingly, such confusion over roles and missions at the institutional level resulted in serious identity... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
high-tech company about its two-year-old English-only language mandate. (She uses the pseudonym Frenchco for the company in the case.) She found that all employees whose native language was not English experienced a status loss under the mandate, regardless of their... View Details
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
With executive compensation soaring to unprecedented levels in recent years, the prickly issue of CEO pay has received increasing media and government attention. Now, with the perfect storm of a failing economy, government bailouts, and... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
technology is now also used for assigning children to New York City high schools and to Boston schools at all levels. And many professional organizations, and universities and business schools, try to help set the recruiting "rules of... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
willingness to project vulnerability—requiring a high level of humility—as a means of establishing a basis for trust among organization members. For example, HBS Professor Amy Edmondson, in her discussion of ways of building... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
also find decreasing forecast errors for voluntary adopters, but this effect is smaller and not robust. Moreover, we show that the magnitude of the forecast errors decrease is associated with the firm-specific differences between local GAAP and IFRS. Exploiting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
There is a market for everything—even dead bodies. Medical students use cadavers to gain experience, and their future patients are better off for it. Traditionally, cadavers have been obtained through university programs, but now... View Details
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
part of its 10th Reunion. This was not their first time partnering to tackle the thorny issue of inclusion. Harmeling, an ethics and entrepreneurship professor at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, had... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
principles we espouse for taking control of one's life - steps such as being proactive, putting first things first, and establishing clearly what you want to achieve. The universality of these principles resonates with people. Which habit... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sports: Lessons for Managers
strength." The following stories from our archives look into sports both as a business opportunity and as a metaphor. Are you ready to level the playing field? Alex Ferguson's Lessons on Leading For almost three decades, Sir Alex... View Details
- Profile
Jacob Meiner
Jacob Meiner has always been attracted to the difficult. As an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania he initially studied Near East languages and civilizations. "It intrigued me from an interdisciplinary perspective, as a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
radically different company today," he says. "It's small enough that my fingerprints are everywhere -- you can get your arms around this place." Interbake's smaller size allows it to turn on a dime when it comes to supplying products to meet fickle consumer demand. Its... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
States. Design: We examined the correlation between the coincident index (a proxy for overall economic conditions) and IVF use at the national level from 2000 to 2011. We then analyzed the relationship at the state View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
university affiliation, they’re two very different institutions that reflect the sectors their students gravitate toward. Physically separated by the Charles River, HKS and HBS embody an ideological tension that pervaded my graduate... View Details
- 03 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series
Tarun Khanna and I coordinate the project, and we are approaching 170 interviews conducted by Harvard faculty. The collection fills a major gap in knowledge regarding businesses operating and thriving in many countries that do not necessarily have the institutional... View Details
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
reached middle and high school, the gap between the high-achieving students and those who needed academic support grew considerably. A few years later, Stanford University released a study that confirmed her observations. “Chicago had... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
microeconomic level it features adoption of firms at the extensive and the intensive margin. Based on a data set of 15 technologies and 166 countries our estimations of the model yield four main findings: (1) there are large cross-country... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
The result of that abiding interest is his new book, Innovation and Its Discontents (Princeton University Press), which he cowrote with Professor Adam B. Jaffe of Brandeis University. Why do we need a patent system in the first place?... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
religiosity at the individual level and employing a religious prime. That is, the more religious people are, the less willing they are to follow through on novel purchase opportunities that arise during their grocery shopping trips. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne