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- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
definitely growing more intense as companies and government agencies strive to become truly "global" players. While much of the past growth and business success might have been based on national and regional success, they... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
the supply-demand ratio for talent? Will the need for recognition and advancement on the job lure people back to the office? Or have the attractions of working at home changed the job satisfaction equation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- March 1973 (Revised June 1974)
- Background Note
Notes on the Management of Change: Implications of Postulating a Need for Competence
Tagiuri, Renato. "Notes on the Management of Change: Implications of Postulating a Need for Competence." Harvard Business School Background Note 473-077, March 1973. (Revised June 1974.)
- 2018
- Working Paper
Need for Speed: The Impact of Website Performance on Online Retail
By: Santiago Gallino, Nil Karacaoglu and Antonio Moreno
The share of e-commerce sales is rapidly increasing and so are the associated losses generated by website outages and slow websites. We leverage novel retail and website performance data to investigate the impact of website performance on online sales. This question is... View Details
Keywords: Online Retail; Quasi-experiments; Abandonment; Synthetic Control; Internet and the Web; Performance; Service Operations
Gallino, Santiago, Nil Karacaoglu, and Antonio Moreno. "Need for Speed: The Impact of Website Performance on Online Retail." Working Paper, October 2018.
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
percentage of my sleep right off the top. — So I'm telling you, okay?" So go the first lines to author Allan Gurganus's short story, "Blessed Assurance." As one of the works View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards
- 10 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?
think? Original Article In recent weeks, I have encountered several situations in which senior managers and investors of all ages have said, "(name) is a really sharp person with a good MBA, but (he or she) just doesn't have street... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Article
The IT Transformation Health Care Needs
By: Nikhil R. Sahni, Robert S. Huckman, Anuraag Chigurupati and David M. Cutler
In recent years, health care organizations have made sizable investments in information technology. They’ve used their IT systems to replace paper records with electronic ones and to improve billing processes, thereby boosting revenue. But so far, IT has been of little... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Performance Improvement; Business Model
Sahni, Nikhil R., Robert S. Huckman, Anuraag Chigurupati, and David M. Cutler. "The IT Transformation Health Care Needs." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 6 (November–December 2017): 128–136.
- 2022
- Book
Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know
By: J.S. Nelson and Lynn A. Stout
An authoritative and practical guide to business ethics, written in an accessible question-and-answer format. In today's turbulent business climate, business ethics are more important than ever. Surveys of employees show that misconduct is on the rise. Cover stories... View Details
Nelson, J.S., and Lynn A. Stout. Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work
When Katherine Coffman presents her research findings about how gender stereotypes shape the behavior of men and women in the workplace, she is often asked: What about non-binary individuals? “People understandably keep asking, ‘What... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 1998
- Other Unpublished Work
Information Needs of Analysts and Investors in the French Capital Markets
By: Robert G. Eccles Jr. and Patrick Frotiee
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
services of unknown quality. The lack of transparency protects providers and insurers from needing to compete on the price and quality of their... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
rebuilding the housing finance system, the credit needs of low-income consumers, mortgage finance alternatives, and the regulation of consumer financial products. In this... View Details
- January 24, 2020
- Article
We Need to Pay More Attention to the Epidemic of Suicide
By: Arthur C. Brooks
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
Very little scholarship has been done around the subject of marketing and democracy. In fact, many believe that politics needs less marketing. Harvard Business School professor John A. Quelch and research... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2023
- Research & Ideas
Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need
environments where candor is expected and where employees can speak up without fear of retribution. When employees feel psychologically safe, they’re empowered to iterate and take risks—leading to better team performance. “You no longer... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
balance internal resources. On the one hand, they need to focus some of their people on continually improving and growing the core business. On the other hand, they must free others to break all the rules in... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
and started World War I, and it all collapsed. As percentages of GDP, we didn’t return to those earlier levels of global capital flows until the 1990s. Global free trade is not the natural order View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
cross-organizational study, McGinn says. Still, she says, the preliminary research already tells the team something quite significant: "Organizations need to think about the 'genderness' of their tasks... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard