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16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

by using my "apples and barrel" metaphor. We have seen many attempts to explain what happened, and they fall into two broad classes. One puts primary responsibility on a few bad apples and sees the solution View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

nature of cases is changing as well, with more cases focusing on international and global issues, as compared to single-country cases that are easier for a faculty member to do... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

top biotech managers, companies leave an imprint of their worldview on young executives through such things as the firm's structure, strategy, and culture. There is a GE imprint, an IBM imprint, View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

Gridlock has unfortunately become a way of political life in the nation's capital. But as of midnight on September 30, things went from bad to worse with the shutdown of funding for the federal government.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

09 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unconscious Executive

unconscious thought as a goal-dependent, deliberative process in the absence of conscious attention. Most people attribute a lot of their actions to View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

with first-line employees every day will have a much better sense of how their businesses are running, and their presence will be highly motivating and even inspiring. As a... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

video case studies of laid-off workers, as well as a couple of technical notes for students—one focusing on best practices for managers as they... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), allowing businesses to cite religious freedom as a defensible reason to deny service to a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

created by the parties' relational, substantive, and procedural acts, we call these six forms improvisations. Just as each musical improvisation plays on an established melody or a set chord progression, the... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

As every company knows, employees are its greatest resource. It's more than a shame, then, that many workers are either not encouraged or afraid to speak up and communicate ideas at work. Employers are... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

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

This confirmed the rationale back in 1970 for PARC's charter as a separate research center. As Robert Adams, then a Xerox senior vice president,... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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