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- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
all their attention on running the factory, while leaving IT concerns to others. Now, he affirmed, "IT is not something you can use as support to help get the 'real work' done; instead, it has become... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
options to their employees, ranging from indexed bond funds to microcap equity funds. Second, sources providing advice and information about mutual-fund investment results proliferated, with companies like... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 19 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Digital Technology’s Profound Game Change for Marketers
software eating the world. Software is disrupting industry after industry and transforming large swathes of the economy. When I was an entrepreneur in the 1990s, I would debate with my investors what sliver of the $70 billion US software... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
marketing during the dot.com bubble are gone, and that's a good thing. The basic idea of incorporating more consumer control in your value proposition for better responsiveness is quite independent from the Internet, actually. This is a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
growth decisions facing Direvo, a young German biotech firm, when one of their partners suddenly wants to become an investor and the company expands both its customer and View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
issue here is industrial policy (on the Chinese side) competing with a lack of an industrial policy (on the US side)" This equally calibrated response from China suggests we are witnessing preparation for a “big negotiation” View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
is in the container. Likewise, responsible manufacturers don't have to worry about competitors cheating by putting bogus ingredients into their products. So the agency's work for consumer protection also... View Details
- 25 Feb 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business
starts to develop as entrepreneurs look to attract resources to grow their ventures. Investors need to understand... View Details
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
Internal and External Responsibility Initiatives Influences Consumer ChoiceThree studies examined how firms can use transparency into social and environmental responsibility initiatives View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
concerning GE's choice of a possible successor to Jack Welch? In your responses there was little of the talk heard in the media about whether it will be possible for someone to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
Additionally, the need to balance creative thinking with accountability and responsibility was emphasized. This was a novel twist to the usually laudatory treatment that... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
Summing Up Personal Predictive Analytics: Should We Be Careful What We Wish For? The world of continuous monitoring of numerous sensors for machines and humans, limitless information storage capacity, and big data combined with rapid View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
Summing Up Is The Question of Who Should Choose Your Boss Becoming "A Little Irrelevant"? The remarkable events at grocery chain Market Basket over the summer stimulated a range of responses to... View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
Editor's note: The economy of Greece is in the depths of despair—a fitting topic for a Greek tragedy. As investor Wilbur Ross (HBS MBA 1961) has poignantly put it, "The country that brought us democracy may now take itself into... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
Summing Up What Will Capitalism Require of Us in the Future? If one were to sum up the ideas in response to this month's column, it could be: Capitalism as we know it is here... View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
Summing Up September 11 was no "tipping point" for acceleration in the loss of privacy. That's the conclusion to be drawn from responses to this month's column.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
of nearly all respondents to the August questions of the month. And many respondents believe they know who is responsible for the "attitude deficit": leaders and managers. Edward Hare summed up the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
Nolan. The 5 most-engaging stories on social media How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists How Countries Use Financial Policy View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
or goods made in response to requests from nonprofits. The level of engagement and resources is relatively low, infrequent, simple, and nonstrategic. It is basically a check-writing relationship. The giver... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin