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- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
"What we want from a company today is not the same as 10 years ago. But the principles are the same." Companies need to do a better job of earning trust, the authors say. The Edelman Trust Barometer, an annual survey of 34,000 people in... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
Everest, several climbers, including two of the world's most experienced professionals, died in part because junior team members didn't speak up when their expert leaders ignored their own core operating principles surrounding safety. In... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
“In India, you often encounter a really strong set of value-driven businesses. And it’s an interesting question why.” Reputation is an especially strong attribute of long-haul companies, adds Khanna. “I really think of it as an asset that is invested in View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't
surprisingly difficult. Much later, in the second year of her PhD program, she discovered the field of behavioral economics and folded her non-academic interests into her research. For his part, Zlatev arrived at his PhD in business... View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
spur agriculture. Or the supermarket going up in the inner city. What can a marketing background say to you when your goal is not to sell Coca-Cola, but to offer a better existence to people on the edge? That's the puzzle facing HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
diagnose whether or not you're optimizing on it. And then, more important, how you can fix it immediately. It’s not, “Oh, my gosh. We have to rebuild trust. Let's come up with a five-year plan.” You will have wasted four View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
the most highly valued companies in the world. But how were they able to steer their companies through the volatile ups and downs of decades of changing technologies? What did they have in common? And what can we learn from them about... View Details
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
percent, up from 1 percent in 2020, making it the fastest-growing source of news consumption; half of consumers are between 16 and 24 years old. Live broadcasting. This copies a feature available on YouTube,... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
will recognize that risk management is only part of the story and that the benefits of positive values go well beyond problem avoidance.— Lynn S. Paine In recent years, however, I have seen more attention being paid to the positive side of ethics. More managers are... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 21 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity
bang for the buck from their new AI. Choudhury has spent his career researching human capital, looking inside companies such as Microsoft, Infosys, and McKinsey to analyze what makes knowledge workers most productive. A few years ago, he... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How To Do Business in Islamic Countries
The business scene in the Islamic world may be as complex as its 1.3 billion people, but one rule is nevertheless quite straightforward for Westerners who want to do deals. "One thing you do not bring up is the Palestinian-Israeli... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
inspired-makes all the more impressive what the design firm IDEO has already achieved. Its help-seeking and help-giving culture is behind the firm's success. But how has IDEO managed to make helping the norm? To answer this question, the authors spent two View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
written to protect renters in Britain when their landlord put their flat up for sale. Renters had a right of first refusal to purchase the property. In the end, however, the right worked against the renters. The issue in both contracts,... View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
intractable obstacles to achieve great success. What is often overlooked or forgotten in the Alger stories is that the individuals who "came up from their bootstraps" did so with the assistance of an important and influential... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
elaborate geysers with Diet Coke as their main ingredient, were among the most viewed online videos at the time but were not initially sanctioned by the company. Donnelly knew that opening up the brand to creative consumers was necessary,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?
To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
both explore and exploit-to compete in mature technologies and markets where efficiency, control, and incremental improvement are prized and to also compete in new technologies and markets where flexibility, autonomy, and experimentation are needed. In the past 15... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
from foreign countries, raise their hand. "What do you associate with it?" The yellow border, answers one. Others note the stunning photography, detailed maps, and magazines piled up all around the house. A few minutes later... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
led you to write the book? Noel Maurer: The idea of the book grew out of two conundrums. First, why wasn't Panama richer in 1999, after [nearly] 100 years of the Panama Canal? After all, the United States and Panama were joined at the hip... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707451 CircleLending, Inc. 2006 Harvard Business School Case 206-137 CircleLending, an innovative start-up, offered individuals the ability to set up and manage informal loans... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace