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- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
up the interests of management with the owners or the top-level managers. When people who own 20 percent of a major public corporation give themselves 20 million share options, that flies right in the face of the principal-agent theory.... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
king of the commute, even though public transit often has lower direct dollar cost. The prevalence of private automobiles causes problems that go far beyond the combustion engine and its massive carbon... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents
they should open target data and compete on solutions—compounds and molecules addressing the targets. I agree. If we're going to get the breakthrough products we want at a development cost we can afford, we have to figure out the best... View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
time reading that information carefully. I've worked with a number of high-school students, and what I tell them about writing is just as valid for managers: begin with an outline. It keeps you from getting halfway through and not knowing where you should View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
GAAP can wind up in jail or pay hefty fines. Its accounting principles are derived from an exhaustive public process overseen by experts in measurement, not like the stakeholders of present “transparency” who are interested in protecting... View Details
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
the rating system. He said that federal financial aid should go to those schools that perform the best. The President eventually abandoned the idea after hearing from many college presidents that there is simply no way to reliably rate... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
meaningful and economically sustainable," he says. Lassiter's Market-based Proposal His proposed market-based solution? "I think each energy source—oil, natural gas, wind, nuclear, solar, etc.—should have a market price based not only on its production costs, but also,... View Details
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
trying to go around all of the rules is not a particularly good idea.” The resignation last week of Uber co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick is the latest black eye for the company, which has stepped on many toes during its rise from... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
the anatomical—basis of the disease." Genzyme, which currently has drugs in clinical trials for melanoma and breast cancer, hopes to have its first products on the market as early as 2004. "I think we're going to see more people... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
Publications October 2014 John Wiley & Sons International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Implications By: Collis, David J. Abstract—This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
several decades of experience with information technology. We've just moved from private networks to public networks, and I think that has a huge impact. The technology is revolutionary; yet in terms of how organizations and businesses... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
on the short-term movement of that money. Kanter: When that kind of intervention takes place, however, we hear cries that the tax system is being used for social engineering. But I certainly have the sense now that without some degree of View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
Without leaving the hallways of their public high school, dozens of students from the economically distressed city of Newburgh, New York, have earned associate’s degrees in cybersecurity, arming them with in-demand skills and preparing... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
judgment and be loyal to the corporation. As one director told us, "Our board lawyers say, 'You know, the board members are not supposed to be making the management decisions. You're just supposed to be comfortable that the management is View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the headlines and provokes the most public and... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
"Women weren't doing something different," Riley said, "but were expecting something different, and therefore were going away with worse results." She suggested that women have different goals in negotiation, and are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
more critical attention on those cases in which diffuse pragmatic interests go unrepresented in public policy. For too long we have accepted an easy account of these failures based on the diffuseness of the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
successful, the economic engine runs backwards, and we become poorer, less educated, suffer from worse pollution, get sicker, and are miserable. We get Detroit. The demise of Detroit was easy to see and hard to address. Consider the causes: Decline of a major industry,... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Publications 2006 Henry Holt (Macmillan) Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment By: Elberse, Anita Abstract—What's behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne