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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the way society at large views the role of nonprofit organizations and their management. "There's a growing willingness to work together across the nonprofit, business, and government sectors to build systemic solutions to problems," she... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
industrial complex that limits healthy competition in order to promote its continued growth and caters to the power and profit-driven demands of its best customers instead of the broader public interest. During the 2016 election cycle, the report estimates that federal... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
the type of organizational form surrounding innovation and influence when innovation is more likely to occur. These factors not only govern how much experimentation is undertaken in the economy, but also the trajectory of experimentation,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
smaller companies who are used to accountability." Stever Robbins commented, "Why do we even spend our time debating whether a Fortune 500 CEO is 'worth it'? Why, instead, don't we seek to hire people who are so motivated to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
second-largest continent: Africa. “Policymakers, investors, and builders can learn from the African experience, where public-private partnerships and deployments of technologies are illuminating new ways to approach the task of funding infrastructure despite a scarcity... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
companies. With developments such as the recent Supreme Court decision allowing companies to spend more freely on political campaigns, the importance of corporate governance is likely to grow. Many boards... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
will give you the money it now spends on buying your health insurance. You will be required to use the money to buy insurance for yourself. People like me who prefer HMOs could still buy them. Insurers will contract with the focused... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
different ordering and return procedures and system interfaces to each distributor and direct manufacturer with whom they trade, causing them to spend valuable resources in back-office operations (50 percent by some estimates), which they... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
experience here that combines art, nature, and architecture,” says van Caldenborgh, who chairs Voorlinden’s board and spends five or six days a week at his office in the museum, about an hour’s drive from Amsterdam. The tranquil setting... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
focused on the phenomenon of bankruptcy. A consultant to or board member of numerous corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies over the years, Hayes expressed his aversion to Chapter 11 proceedings for companies trying... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
says Venkatesan. "The country is just massively corrupt, with seriously bad government and a society that is really getting polarized with inequality. So a lot of us in India are incredibly concerned. "The good news is, there are a lot of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
now the largest entrepreneurial training center in New England, with offices in Boston, Providence, and Worcester. While Silbert admits she spends more time on raising funds — from individual donors, foundations, and View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Innovating in Health Care have shown that necessity was not only the mother of invention, but innovation as well. "If you live in India and you can spend $50 per person per year on health care—as opposed to $8,000 for us—you think... View Details
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Commencement 2017 Address | About
solve some of the biggest problems we are facing in society. Issues like inequality seem so daunting that it can be tempting to sit back and wait for government and policy-leaders who will legislate or regulate solutions. I’d urge you to... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
discourage short-sellers of their stock by launching ad campaigns threatening to them. Not surprisingly, this behavior seems to work. A more benign form of this occurs when firms spend resources to attract a particular kind of investor.... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
entertainment: building a business around blockbuster products-the movies, television shows, songs, and books that are hugely expensive to produce and market-is the surest path to long-term success. Along the way, I reveal why entertainment executives often View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog
after HBS, spending time learning about what’s happening in space will make you a smarter and more innovative leader. If you’re already planning (and even coming from) a career in space, you know that HBS has staked out a leading position... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
Japan made you a better manager? Before I came to Japan, I was not a great listener. Here, 99 percent of my meetings are in Japanese; I have a full-time interpreter and spend practically the whole day wired up with an earpiece. Because of... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
brand mix that would be carried. Results from the pilot store (a remodeled hypermarket in Beijing) were encouraging, with revenues and profits up and customers spending more on each visit. The company must decide how quickly to roll out... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
people’s lives. In OECD countries, for example, people spend around a third of their waking hours engaged in paid work. We not only spend considerable amounts of our time at work, employment and workplace... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne