Values and Beliefs - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Feb 2014
What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

up, consuming only about ten seconds of the two minutes. Having studied and written about the value of "listening posts" in business, I concluded that the company's management wasn't interested in listening.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

principles and creative problem-solving tools to develop innovative solutions to your most challenging business problems. 7 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Pay by July 24 $1,850 Certificate Negotiation Mastery Professor Michael Wheeler Master... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

Initiative has grown significantly and continues to serve as a catalyst for building social value through teaching, research, and programs related to social enterprise.... View Details

November 2018 (Revised December 2018)
Case

CalSTRS Takes on Gun Violence

By: Vikram S Gandhi and Caitlin Reimers

In Spring of 2018, Chris Ailman, CIO of the $200 billion pension plan for California public school teachers (CalSTRS) was mandated by his board to “prioritize engagement with makers and retailers of firearms in California” following a series of gun-related tragedies in... View Details

Keywords: Pension Funds; Pension Plan; Asset Allocation; Screening; ESG; Gun Violence; Business and Government Relations; Values and Beliefs; Education Industry; California; United States

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06 Jan 2016
What Do You Think?

Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?

long-term strategy and culture. David Wittenberg led the way in making the argument for an inadequate strategy as a primary cause of the problem. He suggested that bad timing is related to a lack of “strategic frameworks to assess the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto; Fashion

01 Mar 2024
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Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

traditional approaches in building enterprises, their governance, and growth.’’ The technology is open source, so different teams can build together. Participants value open information flow, universal... View Details

Keywords: April White

14 Jun 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia

2003), president of the HBS Club of Japan, ended the program. During his remarks, Dean Datar talked about several innovative initiatives that he anticipates will have lasting value for the School and that... View Details

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

it to capture the benefit of doing something good for the planet on its balance sheet. Reduce the participation cost like FOSS does. Free and open source software allows newer individuals to contribute in ways other than writing code,... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

February 2022 (Revised October 2022)
Case

P.T. Barnum: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun

This case describes the life of P.T. Barnum, widely considered to the be the father of modern advertising and marketing. Barnum showed his genius for business early, selling lottery tickets and confections from his father’s store. He went on to found a famous museum of... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment; Entrepreneurship; Personal Characteristics; Marketing; Success; Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; Europe

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01 Jun 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental

Enfants du Paradis (1945). “The dialogue, the acting, the cinematography are all sublime. I also love The Last King of Scotland with Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin and Blood Diamond with Leonardo DiCaprio. I’ve met similar mercenary-type... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investment; exports; infrastructure; life experience; finance; Finance

07 Mar 2016
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Scott Stern, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Electricity - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change Electricity Renewables, nuclear, and carbon capture offer massive market potential The combustion of fossil fuels to generate electricity is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions View Details

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

executives in the core businesses, rather than ambitious young MBAs, should be assigned to growth initiatives; 3) Assembling the wrong team and staffing up prematurely. CEOs should focus on capabilities, not who's available, View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

04 Jun 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Can a Continuously-Liquidating Tontine (or Mutual Inheritance Fund) Succeed where Immediate Annuities Have Floundered?

Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg; Financial Services

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

While the US Food and Drug Administration has chiseled away pharmaceutical review times over the years to speed innovative drugs to market, the opposite seems to have occurred in the agency's approval of medical devices. Instead of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

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Nashae Roundtree

food dinner, and running around with other kids in our churchyard while we waited to eat. As an only child, I valued time spent with other children in my community and... View Details

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

key industry has shut down and the team needs to reevaluate how to continue delivering value under these new conditions The relaunch is also an opportunity to discuss how team members’ own perspectives on... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

17 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage

In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

will be smart to unbundle the services and come out with a pricing table.” As Munyaradzi Mushato put it, “implement an authentic platform strategy where users pay, advertisers pay, and developers pay for the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

12 Mar 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO

hesitant. Yet sometimes, this is necessary. But when? You should fire your CEO under two of these three conditions: (1) there is a weak and unfixable fit between the CEO's skills and the needs of the... View Details

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