Weakness Of Will - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

commercial hub. Q: On the larger topic of Africa, which appears to have been left behind in the globalization movement, where do you see Africa heading over the next twenty years, in terms of economic... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

18 May 2021
Book

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

Because you may be competent and compatible, but if you don’t send signals that you are committed, your manager could worry that you will quit. Or you may be compatible and committed, but if you can’t do the job, none View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

29 Jun 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change

retrenchment; think growth. Key concepts include: Companies that survive the financial crisis by identifying and exploiting innovation will serve as economic growth engines in the future—and will be the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

The risk taken in a politician’s private investment portfolio is a strong indicator of whether that person will cross legal or ethical lines in office. The riskier the portfolio, the more likely the lawmaker... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

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

11 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Fixing Price Tag Confusion

and when it would make sense or not. Marketers may be holding the naïve intuition that consumers will overlook smaller price parts and digest partitioned deals more easily. But our research shows to the contrary that partitioning View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

20 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?

burden of proof for users before they'll be willing to pay: are enough of my friends there to make a switch worthwhile? JD: Advertising is not the only way to achieve a... View Details

Keywords: Re: John A. Deighton & Sunil Gupta; Publishing; Financial Services

31 Oct 2014
Op-Ed

Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness

First of all, many more Americans will die of heart attacks than will ever die of Ebola. This is not like... View Details

Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda; Health

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

for greener companies. Those companies with positive environmental records were criticized just as heavily as those with negative records. "The idea that if you invested in CSR in the past, then people will think more highly View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

23 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Global Environment-Transformed Organization

According to two panel sessions, successful organizations must continually transform themselves in today's dynamic world. Panelists said globalization has played or will play a key role in the transformations View Details

12 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

The New Real Estate

diversification and reduce risk. This is the new world of real estate finance which, as my friend Harvard Business School professor Andre Perold will argue, is just catching up with everyone else.... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

contributed to the development of a business-oriented society with increased short-term opportunity for MNCs. "The dot-com bubble brought practices, ambitions, and goals to China that are here to stay," he added.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

06 Dec 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

in the middle of disputes that hurt their future prospects. And poor countries will fail to benefit from what investors can bring them. Absent strong protections, managers must ask themselves a series View Details

15 Mar 2021
Office Hours

Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?

and integrates all of these advances in technology that will impact how individuals save, how they invest, and how they interact with all aspects of their finances. "Keep your... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

doesn't increase its debt limit on October 17, it will start defaulting on its bills—an unprecedented event in the nation's history. Senior Lecturer Joseph B. Fuller, a member of the School's Entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

the privilege of collecting loyalty card customer data. As former Tesco CEO Sir Terry Leahy put it in his recent book referring to the 1 percent loyalty discount: "It was a thank you, pure and simple." Can such small rewards... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

02 Jul 2024
Book

Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead

culture, communication, connection, and confidence. Each one of these is a tool or building block for developing and deploying leadership capital. In the chapters that follow, I walk you through these one by one. I tell my own story View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Aug 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

financial projections for the firm. Profitability analysis begins with calculating the revenue the firm will generate from sales of its products. Then, an analysis of variable... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

08 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

through the hard steps of developing yourself from within. With the visible failures of leaders who tried to fake it, people have developed sensitive “sniff tests” and can quickly identify who is authentic... View Details