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- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
challenges." Besides, the business world stands to benefit from infrastructure improvements, said the Hon. Karen Gordon Mills (HBS MBA '77), former Administrator of the US Small Business Administration... View Details
- 05 Jul 2012
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?
that lead to damaged trust may well be "plans and intentions (that are) overtaken by circumstances beyond control." There were even more suggestions about what to do about the trust deficit, other than just making sure that all... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- June 1990 (Revised November 1991)
- Case
Morality and Consequences
Consists mainly of excerpts from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill. Mill explains what utilitarianism is and gives his rationale for accepting it as a moral philosophy. View Details
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "Morality and Consequences." Harvard Business School Case 390-206, June 1990. (Revised November 1991.)
- July 1991 (Revised May 1995)
- Case
Samuel Slater, Francis Cabot Lowell, and the Beginnings of the Factory System in the United States
Deals with the coming of the mechanized textile industry to the United States, and with it, the nation's first factories. Considers the introduction of small spinning mills in Rhode Island, and the appearance of large integrated spinning and weaving mills in... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business History; Production; Industry Growth; Manufacturing Industry; Rhode Island; Massachusetts
McCraw, Thomas K. "Samuel Slater, Francis Cabot Lowell, and the Beginnings of the Factory System in the United States." Harvard Business School Case 792-008, July 1991. (Revised May 1995.)
- December 1984
- Case
Expense Tracking System at Tiger Creek
By: Shoshana Zuboff
Mill manager Carl Adelman learns that a group of senior managers is soon to visit the Tiger Creek mill to learn more about the success of the newly implemented Expense Tracking System. The System had been installed on two paper machines to give workers real time cost... View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Expense Tracking System at Tiger Creek." Harvard Business School Case 485-057, December 1984.
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
million boxes of fresh oranges shipped out of state were colored with synthetic dyes.” By the 1930s, synthetic food dyes were used routinely in sausages, pastas, candies, ice cream, and a host of other foods. View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jun 2019
- Book
These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway
says Tarun Khanna, is that startups must create their own trust. Fintech, Small Business, & the American Dream Karen Mills describes how technology is opening up new capital for entrepreneurs. Creative... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
retailers struggle to match supply with demand. Many e-retailers are urging consumers to “buy early” this holiday season, citing concerns about postal services and shipping. Given capacity constraints placed upon retail stores by many... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
it helps people deal with the great challenges offered by technological innovations and the emergence of the new economy," Mills proclaims. Although those challenges are still out there, today they... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
Summing Up How can business schools reprofessionalize management? The responses to this month's column can be characterized in several ways: 1) Business schools, particularly those regarded as being the "elite," by their very... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
American business are plainly visible for the whole world to see, Mills warned. Repairing the infrastructure is critically important to restore trust in American business, and tinkering with the rulebook is not enough. The process of... View Details
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
afterthought. "If you look at the allocation of resources in corporate wellness programs, you will find it heavily weighted towards physical health," says Quelch. Only rarely does a tragedy, such as a suicide of a top management executive or workplace shooting View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
If the COVID-19 crisis lasts four months, 65 percent of small retailers say there’s a good chance they’ll be forced to close permanently by the end of the year. Among restaurants and bars, 70 percent expect to go out of business if... View Details
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
What should business leaders know about the ambitions of Russia, China, and the European Union? They should know how geopolitical conditions exert enormous pressure on companies, according to Harvard Business School professor D. Quinn View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
call that goal the "Utilitarian criterion" after the philosophical framework that supports it. Since pioneering work in the 1970s by Nobel laureate James Mirrlees, the Utilitarian criterion has dominated tax research. It has had enormous... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
Word, for example? The problem: Overshooting the market can open the way for disruptive technologies that are cheaper and simpler to take root. So Xerox was eventually disrupted by less expensive copiers from Ricoh and Canon, Western... View Details
- 26 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus
in which to communicate decisions and priorities, but also have rapid communication to the entire body of constituents—not delays over hours or days or, even worse, weeks. Silence is absolutely the worst possible thing that you allow to happen, because that’s when the... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
approach to the presidency. Their insights follow. Real estate rarely a zero-sum game John D. Macomber, Senior lecturer of business administration You have to start by distinguishing between a branding operation that’s supported View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
A few years ago, Sandra J. Sucher received worried emails from two MBA students in her first-year Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) class at Harvard Business School. Elana Green (now Elana Silver) and David Rosales (both HBS MBA 2010) had been troubled... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
computer manufacturers to steel mills and retailing, he has discovered consistent patterns in the way technological innovation affects both companies and industries. Health care, he declares, is no exception. According to Christensen's... View Details