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- 07 Jul 2011
- What Do You Think?
So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?
investment, for example)." As C. J. Cullinane put it, "we have to be adaptable and flexible but Too much adaptability can lead to lack of direction " RT said that there is "No shame in revising ideas—publicly and to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News
media would benefit their personal reputations more than spreading misleading articles, the research shows. Furthermore, when political articles are shared on Twitter (now X), accurate information tends to garner more approval, finds Jillian View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
improvement in the average produced a 2.5 percent improvement in unit revenue, or $250,000 in added revenue per hotel. In spite of the economics, organizations apparently are doing a poor job of building positive employee experiences, whether through trust or other... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
options. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-020.pdf How to Capture Value from Innovation: Shaping Intellectual Property and Industry Architecture Authors:Gary P. Pisano and David J. Teece... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
tasting and flavor pairings, and chocolate decoration techniques. "It involves being a leader in connoisseurship and giving our customers a real, value-added experience by learning and connecting with the category," Koen... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
Policy,” in which University of Michigan Professor Andrew J. Hoffman wrote, “One of the reasons (among many) that the public discourse on critical scientific issues of our day has become so confused is that too many academics, according... View Details
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
Summing Up The depth of the global financial crisis is becoming clearer day by day. In the United States, it is being used as a reason to set aside ideology regarding government ownership of important financial institutions, possibly... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Laura Morgan Roberts, and David A. Thomas . Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience, To support black employees, business leaders must challenge biases and help employees be themselves, according to a book... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
Balanced Scorecard Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts, with strategy execution lost along the way. A new book by Balanced Scorecard creators Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton aims to make... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
from angel investors,” she says. “Creating a business, and understanding the pain points, is still the greatest challenge for any new venture, regardless of the economic climate, but the barriers to entry have gone way down, thanks to some of the tools out there. You’d... View Details
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
information is significant and avoiding information overload. David J. Collis, the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Michael G.... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- July 2012
- Supplement
Generation Investment Management, Video
By: Sandra J. Sucher
Examines the Investment process of Generation Investment Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who must decide... View Details
Keywords: Leadership And Managing People; Accountability; Investment Management; Social Issues; Investment; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Development Economics; Natural Environment; Financial Services Industry; Energy Industry
Sucher, Sandra J. "Generation Investment Management, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 612-704, July 2012.
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
Summing Up To remain sane and relevant, must we smell the flowers as well as the ozone? This month's question of how much obsolescence business and society (and by implication, we as managers) can absorb brought out both the poets and the... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
these dynamics has been constrained by fragmentation within relevant management research. In this paper, we clarify and describe two narratives that have emerged within past and current research on growth and the internal organization.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
covered together during that time, especially several of you who have responded to more than half of the topics (and to C. J. Cullinane who has offered views on nearly every one). This month's column yielded many hypotheses to explain why... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
dialogue. That is why this program involves faculty from across disciplines at HBS, including David Collis and John Wells from Strategy, John Gourville from Marketing, Linda Hill from Organizational... View Details
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
of identity. Perceptions vary widely on the issue of "identity" and economic performance, particularly as it applies to the U.S. One school of thought is summarized by C. J. Cullinane when he says,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
it, " the question should not be rational decision making OR intuition, but rather how to combine both." David Kendall said, "In the most difficult case of no-time and high-risk, reliance on 'rational intuition' may be a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
Successful businessmen told a roomful of students that ultimately, the world outside the classroom will be their best teacher in entrepreneurship. "If you are taking an entrepreneurship class, you want to be a venture capitalist," said Andrew View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
Summing Up This month's column appears to have struck a chord with those who lament the continuing loss of implicit knowledge buried inside the heads of experienced leaders (termed "deep smarts" by Dorothy Leonard and Walter... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett