Responsibilities To Investors - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

responsibility allocation can create conflict, but this research suggests that undoing these biases can have some unfortunate consequences. Some members who look beyond their own perspective may not like what they see. How View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Oct 2011
What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

employees leaving the organization voluntarily. When I attempted to collect the data in several organizations, I was typically told that the data was easy to get for only about a third of the items. The... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

argued, the company was "involved in every aspect of the operation"-from how many rides drivers had to accept in an hour to how they had to interact with customers. Two... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Technology

11 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

Spontaneous responses can often be quite telling. As a member of a panel discussion at the Women, Money, and Power conference, entrepreneur Joline Godfrey posed two simple questions to the mostly-female... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Jul 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?

outcomes. That’s the sense provided by responses to this month’s column. “Seems like humans have learned to control the world but not themselves,” wrote Akn1307hbs in a concern... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

01 Jul 2021
Office Hours

Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?

almost always created by entrepreneurs and technologists in response to a shortage of workers or in response to a lack of productivity in the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Manufacturing

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

particular climate change. Responses to climate change pit energy providers and manufacturers—for whom the costs of adjustment are likely to be high—against the general public... View Details

Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull

16 Jul 2021
Op-Ed

For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down

moment of candor, he confided to me, "I hope the new investors will let me slow down. We need to make sure we are building for scale and to do... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

backdated stock options, insufficiently independent corporate board members, poor responsiveness to shareholders concerns, and a lack of transparency in the activities and decisions of boards. The AFL-CIO... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

with the results that NAFTA has produced. But it seems not to have receded in interest among at least one group of readers of this column. The column "What Lies Beyond NAFTA?," with a focus on future View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

Most managers today understand the strategic implications of the information-based, knowledge-driven, service-intensive economy. They know what the new game requires: speed, flexibility and continuous self-renewal. They even are recognizing that skilled and motivated... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

political, economic and cultural purposes," Abdelal writes. "It is the nation connected to a project." Nationalism can propel economic policy in four ways. It sets a direction for policy, partly in View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

to be more responsive to markets? The risk exposure calculator helps answer these questions. Another powerful tool we describe in detail is the "profit wheel," a model of the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

official responsibility for Continental Airlines' decision to keep flying during the power blackout in August 2003, but that decision was foreordained by the actions of all the other people who claimed... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

10 Nov 2014
HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

reputation” Keinan: In this case, the goal of the different brands is to complement each other, so they don't compete or cannibalize each other. HBSWK: And what about Noma? You mentioned that margins aren't very high, and in the case you... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

meant making quick, difficult staffing decisions when some of her colleagues weren't able to grow with the company. "It took a long time to get funding," she continued, recalling that she was eight... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

Porter, Director of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School: I'd like to focus though, just to be brief here, on really some of the main findings on the microeconomic and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

different from these cyclical patterns. In the book, we discuss how a confluence of factors—the changing sources of capital, the rise of intermediaries, and the growing concentration of investors dollars—is likely View Details

Keywords: by Carol Elsen; Financial Services

05 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis

involved with the policy response to the crisis in Spain. As hard-hit as the United States was by the Great Recession, Spain was damaged far worse: Years after the recession, growth was at a standstill and a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking

23 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

immediate response. Provides detail concerning the history of the airline from its founding in 1999 through the February 2007 crisis, which forced the airline to cancel more than 1,000 flights over the course of six days. In addition,... View Details