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- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
It wasn't empathy. It was a kind of powerful curiosity." Perfecting this intense curiosity is valuable for negotiators, even when the risks aren't as high as they were for these officers. Too often, however, we get so wrapped up in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
just advantage. It's about recognizing that others will have their own perceptions about us, right or wrong. When you recognize the power in those perceptions and flip them in your favor, you create an edge—and your View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsAT&T v. Microsoft (A): IP Litigation Strategy Harvard Business School Case 608-080 This case examines a hard fought litigation over a patent that originated at Bell Labs. It... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
But in most scenarios, distribution channels, taken as a whole, seem more like a repository of lost opportunities than an effective delivery system that appropriately serves and rewards all participants. Powerful channel members routinely... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
stability for insurers? Consolidation in the health insurance industry is not the answer. While Aetna’s bargaining power with ever-more consolidated provider organizations would have improved if it were allowed to join forces with Humana,... View Details
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
Summing Up Low-skilled immigrants: burden or opportunity? Immigration is apparently a topic that stirs passions globally, judging from the responses to this month's column. As Nauman Lodhi pointed out, "Tough times give rise more than ever to tough thoughts View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
that design innovation often involves a high degree of uncertainty in terms of market success. "It's very hard to understand what people want," he says. "If I make a car that can brake in 10 yards instead of 50, that's a... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
stay outside and enjoy the sun,” Chung explains. “To make up for lost sales if it was sunny during the earlier part of a month, salespeople would have to work very hard for three weeks to meet their quotas at the end of the month. But if... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
status quo isn’t working for those without power and privilege, Mendu, a 2020–2021 HBS Leadership Fellow, believes “the more fortunate among us have a deep obligation to disrupt it.” Her HBS mentors included former United States Small... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
to HBS faculty member involved relating to former professors and mentors as colleagues. "I had a hard time calling them by their first names," she says. Now the William L. White Professor of Business Administration and a senior associate... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
or adding new products? Industry Dynamics: Are there fragmented industries where significant value can be delivered through consolidation? Are there shifts in power (e.g., entry or exit of a key player or consolidation of several players)... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
September 2016 Harvard Business Review How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—The toughest calls managers have to make come in situations when they have worked hard to gather the facts and have done the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
resemble the Brady Bunch. It is hard to understand how other people find the time. And yet these models also raise doubts. You may wonder whether it is ever possible for a Bill Gates to be a "regular guy" at his scale of wealth... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
reducing counter-party risk between financial institutions; and the strengthening of regulators' abilities to require more capital (and less overall leverage) at our financial institutions. They clearly will have this explicit power... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
do you mean by that? Neeley: Work groups are not static. They are dynamic, including our sentiments about our experiences within them. With virtuality, we need to work extra hard to ensure that we are all on the same page. That is, it’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
computers from an experimental technology into a commercially viable, enterprise-grade tool that will be exponentially more powerful than today’s digital computers. Any sector that relies on computers for simulation, optimization, machine... View Details
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
initiatives, new equipment, or anything novel that would require significant expenditures. This, of course, brings about hard feelings among employees in other departments that do consider themselves as business results drivers. They... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
Hollywood." Verba says he came to his reunion "to see the people with whom I both worked and played hard for two great years at HBS. I wanted to catch up with the professors and point out where they were right and where things have... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Amazon, research shows how AI-driven processes are vastly more scalable than traditional processes, allow massive scope increase, enabling companies to straddle industry boundaries, and create powerful opportunities for learning—to drive... View Details