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- 01 May 2020
- What Do You Think?
Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?
greatest threat for years to come centers on talent." The organization's culture has been an important competitive advantage for the Company. As she describes it, "You're likely to meet your new set of best friends when you join... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
productivity would improve—especially as the bricks-and-clicks retail model worked in an increasingly coordinated manner to offer the consumer a seamless shopping experience. The Internet Threat While recent retail sales figures seem to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People
make self-serving decisions and ignoring the plight of others. To date, more than a year since the crisis started, despite much public outrage and threats to more strongly regulate the financial industry, there do not seem to be any... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
significant? I’m sure they’re feeling it. Gazette: What would be a threat to these businesses? Shih: Inflation and rising labor costs are a real threat to their business model. Gazette: Despite their... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- Blog Post
HKS Policy Analysis Exercise Showcase
April 26, students presented projects focused on a range of topics—female representation in the start-up ecosystem, anticipating climate disasters in Yemen, a community-based approach to early childhood education in Brazil, analyzing View Details
- Web
Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
Now Key Concepts Become fluent in disruptive innovation theory Assess new opportunities and potential threats Discover jobs to be done and develop frameworks to better understand customer needs Acquire techniques for executive-level... View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams
What we learned about BTG Bioliquids and biofuels We left our visit with some key considerations and food for thought. First, it was interesting to witness how threat and opportunity are merely different sides of the same coin. While the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
behavior across retailers? Certainly, online shopping has taken off over this period. How might that affect consumer behavior when they show up in the store? With stores like Walmart and Target carrying almost everything, including groceries, I wonder if the View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
Companies face a growing yet largely undetected threat to their worker productivity, employee retention and, ultimately, competitive advantage: the needs of employees who are caregivers. The aging population, an increasingly female... View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
managers for missing disruptive threats, but I don’t think it’s entirely fair. Leaders making decisions are staring in a foggy lens into the future. In retrospect these disruptive threats look painfully obvious, but they are not obvious... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
100 slaves—received death threats and was spit on in public. He did not win reelection to the council and found himself shut out of work opportunities in the area. “It was time to return to Omaha,” he says. “We were heading into the... View Details
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
1980s, when the companies he studied scrambled to boost quality in response to the competitive threat posed by Japan. “In many of the cases [companies] employed experts in improving quality,” Beer says. “These experts ran vast amounts of... View Details
- 03 Feb 2012
- HBS Seminar
Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
about the scope of the switch to remote work during the pandemic, the ease with which different jobs could be performed online, the productivity effects of remote work, and the potential for continued remote work after the threat of... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 21 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
results suggest that efforts both to safeguard electoral integrity and enfranchise more voters may be better served through other reforms. Low and unequal participation represent real threats to democracy, but these may be more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
short-term, bottom line thinking drive decisions contrary to the best interests of that business (and society) over the long term. Frankly, the threat that is posed by climate change to our planet must now be thought of as short-term.... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
protocols, often unilaterally deciding to adopt the most restrictive version of the protocols to reassure their employees. And, to limit the threat of future possible liabilities, they worked hard to make sure that protocols were... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
fabricated or real crisis is an essential ingredient for effective change management, as an existential threat breaks down many barriers to change. With such an unprecedented crisis, it is stretching and breaking apart even the strongest... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
available + More Info – Less Info After spreading rapidly in the late 20th century, democracy has been on the defensive around the world—and arguably receding—in the 21st century. This represents a profound threat to freedom and... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
new book, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads. Employing a wealth of interviews and quantitative data, their book takes the first comprehensive approach in decades to examine the evolving MBA marketplace and its threats... View Details