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- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
Summing Up Does Social Equality Improve Productivity? Inequality in our society is an important and growing issue. It prompted a debate among respondents to this month's column about the causes, specifically the role played by innovation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
Debora L. Spar's research in Africa has looked at the diamond industry, the AIDS crisis, and the democratization of South Africa since apartheid. Now she has turned her attention to Botswana, where an era of sustained growth has been... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Web
Crucibles of Crisis Leadership - Course Catalog
these actors was in the middle of calamity, he or she recognized they could not falter and then fail to recover; they couldn’t give up (although each came close.) Instead, these men and women resolutely navigated through the storm and... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS
retired law professor—and I wondered if you could use some of these new films to put together a course examining some of the ethical challenges business people face. I ended up talking about the proposed course with Professors Joseph... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
Summing Up Whether or not this month's respondents represent a self-selected sample of enthusiasts for the book, The Wisdom of Crowds, they agree that the findings it presents have strong implications for leaders, particularly those in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
more than the statement presented in company documents; it's the actual aggregation of commitments and their relationship to the realized strategy of the firm. Operating level decisions can change the de facto strategy of the firm. Strategic resource allocation... View Details
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
terms, both companies would like nothing better than to have customers to themselves, wrapped up in their own seamless media universes: iTunes, iPad, and Apple TV on the one hand; and Kindle, Amazon Prime, and Fire TV on the other. “Even... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Hoop Dreams
Warner. “It just illustrates to me, don’t give up on your dreams,” Belkin told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (September 21, 2003). As the largest single investor in the ownership group, he plans to focus his View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, argues... View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
companies operate and how government invests in them. And yet, the business world has been slow to catch up to these changes, says Associate Professor Aldo Musacchio, a member of the Business, Government, and the International Economy... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Portrait Project
Andrew Meade
I plan to have you read this sentence. Score! Hmm, what else do I plan I plan to have you ignore my name. At least once you'll leave a movie, so casually pondering what was awesome, iffy, outright sucky, that you'll pay no attention to... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
were, in turn, more likely to cheat than those who weren't primed to think outside the box. Creative people are more likely to cheat in part because their creativity helps them to come up with ingenious explanations to justify their... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Web
Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage - Course Catalog
pricing and bargaining. As the course progresses, attention shifts from the structure of advantage to the process of creating, sustaining, and changing advantage. We ask questions such as: How does advantage develop over time? When should... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
But his longtime fascination with both the stock market and inventors came to the fore when he entered the New York investment world. After setting up a science and technology investment banking group at Blyth Eastman PaineWebber, he... View Details
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
"Our message," says Margolis in this interview, "is that as business plays an increasingly important role in society, it is important to correct the drift away from social welfare and devote more research attention to... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
your message aloud, you need to “sub,” or subscribe. In the 90 seconds before his next game starts, Bjerg announces the names of some 30 subscribers, each of whom just pledged $4.99 to $24.99 a month to support the player. Meanwhile, ads for Red Bull and Geico appear... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
You’ve Been YouTubed
tweeted by Carroll’s friends, posted on social news sites, shared with Facebook friends, and picked up by bloggers. From there it was a quick hop to the mainstream media; by the end of July, the video had been viewed 4.6 million times,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
came back far worse in the fall—and many people were desperately unprepared when it did. In 1929, you had the big crash in the fall, but by the early spring of 1930, the market was already back up to about 75 percent of its peak. And... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Last Look
(MBA ’89, PHDBE ’94) for identifying Liza Minnelli as the center of attention during Harvard College’s 1973 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year celebration. As Demer points out, Minnelli, seated in an open car with Baker Library in the... View Details
- Career Coach
Michele Chambliss
leverages her strengths in strategic messaging and attention to detail. She serves as Board President for a non-profit and has led hiring for leadership roles there and at another non-profit. Michele holds a BS Electrical Engineering from... View Details