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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
the point of the book was to explain where this extraordinary system came from and to explain it component by component so that readers could understand the financial system as the product of history, and as... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
“Blank” Inside: Branding Ingredients
ingredient is central to the functional performance of the final product. Think Shimano gear systems on performance bicycles or Monsanto's Nutrasweet, added to Equal sweetener. 3. The final products are not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
sync. No one is thinking about the system as a whole—and that’s the opportunity.” —Shana Hoffman (MBA 2014), COO, Senior VP, Tri-State/Mid-Atlantic Region, Beacon Health Options Photo courtesy of Lily Fu... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
division. When Ralph Clark (MBA 1993) took over as CEO of ShotSpotter in 2010, he inherited a groundbreaking technology and a broken business model. The company uses sensors, strategically placed throughout an urban area, to instantly locate a gunshot and alert... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
on an automated mail-flow system for the postal service when he started thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive over roads but also attach to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
Photography by Robert Schoen Lori Schock, copresident of the HBS Student Association, defines her leadership role as being an activist for students' priorities. “When I go to meetings, I'm constantly thinking of the hundreds of other... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
likely than men to play a key "boundary spanning" role in the company. One can think of it like this. If we were to randomly remove an employee from this company's communication network, the odds that this action would cause a... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
faculty. We're part of a highly competitive environment in this country, globally now as well. If such a great system declines it hurts all of us. When one thinks of these rankings, we should pay as national... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
risky, you’re creating moral hazard implicit federal guarantees by that very process. Third, you’re assuming that we can know in advance every institution that’s systemically risky, but I don’t think that’s... View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
responsibility, do you buy it when a CEO says, "I didn't know," about questionable practices? A: I think the strategy of deniability is a very dangerous one to allow to stand. A CEO should understand what's going on in the... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
RoboCar, the Sequel
thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive on roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks. A version of his idea was adapted in the 1960s and is still in use at West... View Details
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
called upon to play increasingly broader roles. Let me start my analysis with the barrel. I think our economic system has proven phenomenally successful at bringing growth, innovation, productivity, and a... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
in their business. When many leaders think about flexibility, they think about employees who are not in the office, Auerbach observes. “Yet remote is one of the least-in-need flexibility types. What people... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
demand shift for additional safety features, prompting CT scanner producers to quickly incorporate, commercialize, and continuously improve alternative technology. Moreover, it was the largest industry incumbents that benefitted most. That, too, runs against... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
other words, if a retailer only gives the manufacturer warehouse stock information rather than actual sales data, or if the data is sent by fax instead of electronic transfer (which can be more efficiently verified), VMI may not pay off. To the degree the View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
looks at the emergence of capitalism and democracy as systems of economic and political governance and considers how they may be both mutually supportive and antagonistic. Chapters on the theory and history of these View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide open, with some disastrous results. I think all the attention being paid to the current problems—particularly... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
Blagg: "Disruptive innovation" is a term you've used in your analyses of other industries, but what does it mean in the context of the health-care industry? Clayton Christensen: People think they know what disruptive innovation means, but... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
referring physicians. We think that health plans are also the logical place in the system at which to aggregate medical records. Right now, the medical record resides with each provider, and providers must... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
true. But this has really made me think more about the role that institutions and public policy play and about how vulnerable the system is unless we really do have checks and balances. In addition to formal... View Details