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- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
instead, that economic activity could be greatly affected by policy gained prestige. Thus, even while Fisher sunk into poverty, his econometric ideas were gaining strength. Of course, the most popular economist of the 1930s became View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
of California and at Harvard Business School, where he became a member of the HBS faculty. McNamara was a devotee of managerial control, an expertise he applied in his work at the Ford Motor Company and later at the Department of Defense as secretary in President View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
smarter trades, according to the findings of a study by Soltes, an assistant professor at HBS, and David Solomon, a professor at the USC Marshall School of Business. To conduct the research, the duo obtained investor meeting records from... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
going dark, fearful of offending or of being accused of taking advantage of an unfortunate situation for corporate gain. According to estimates from a March 2020 survey of marketers conducted by the Interactive Advertising Bureau, nearly... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
independent developers to build new features. The cell phone has become a lucrative platform for more than handset makers—also in on the party are makers of digital cameras, music services, and organizer software. Not only are existing industries being transformed and... View Details
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
many U.S. airlines, the debt owed to customers in the form of miles is a value significantly larger than the airlines' market capitalization. This is simply not sustainable. Airlines have already reduced the value of miles by making seats... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should You Outsource Your Marketing?
turning to marketing partners. Harvard Business School professors Gail J. McGovern and John Quelch documented the trend in an article in the March issue of Harvard Business Review. One reason behind the... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
like to think of themselves as truly indispensable—impact makers, history movers, culture changers—few reach the bar set by Steve Jobs, Napoleon, or Martin Luther King Jr., Mukunda says. (Even some people you might think would be shoo-ins... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
to demand it. In fact, I believe the SEC should make it a requirement. As we all try to come up with solutions to the problems of the planet, integrated reporting is one way to make sure that companies are part of the process. 2. Rebecca Henderson Senator View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
At a recent Harvard Business School conference, dozens of CEOs committed to the idea of working toward "higher-ambition" goals that go beyond just short-term shareholder value. Inspired by the book Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
reading in a trade publication about Benihana's innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl Sasser produced the Benihana case in 1972 with research associate View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
uncovered significant differences in performance associated with their respective strategies for competing in that industry.10 This format of combining industry notes with company cases, which had been initiated at Harvard Business School View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
Thomas and HBS Emeritus professor John Gabarro focused not on the fact that less than 3 percent of top executives were persons of color, but on the factors that led that 3 percent to success. "We wanted to understand, when people of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
political ideology that is xenophobic and isolationist; and the splitting of Americans into antagonistic ideological camps instead of finding common ground upon which to build. What's needed, she continues, is an agenda built on core American principles that Widens... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
inhabited by academics and consultants ...personal advancement may be better served by being provocative than by being right." Others question the importance of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
Research. The paper was coauthored by Andrei Shleifer, the John L. Loeb Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and Jakob Ahm Sørensen, a doctoral fellow at the Copenhagen Business School. Avoiding the... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management?
as a successful recruiting tool; disclosing the grades required to get there is not necessary." On the other hand, many respondents believed that transparency in management should extend in some form to the educational process. In advocating grade disclosure,... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?
the Internet. By 2001, the E-Rate program had wired 87 percent of all K-12 classrooms in the U.S. If we believe that educational performance is a result of investment, it hasn't paid off.—Kosmas Kalliarekos, The Parthenon Group View Details
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
The New York Times ran a troubling story, "Why You Hate Work," in last week's "Sunday Review." The article indicated that employees work too hard and find little meaning from their work. The anecdotes we all hear about this topic are reinforced... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George