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08 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

salesmen. Business schools need to look at what differentiates a professional school from a vocational school. For management, the impetus came much more from a small cadre of academics, a group of people who were concerned about what was... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

24 May 2010
Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

Recent research at Harvard Business School began with the premise that as a state's congressional delegation grew in stature and power in Washington, D.C., local businesses would benefit from the increased federal spending sure to come... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

Abstract Are the doors of access open equally for all in business? Are talent and hard work really enough to make it to the top? As much as we would like to believe in the American meritocracy, an elusive class system exists where a small... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

an abstract, separate level but being part of groups willing to fast on the street as a nonviolent protest, has had a huge impact. She is using her status as a celebrity to bring attention to the cause, and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

business applications, aimed at empowering teams to better respond to changing customer and competitive threats, are already au fait with this idea of using military strategy to guide project... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

20 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

The Acquirers

were published in the paper, Financial vs. Strategic Buyers. The research team first scoured data of private equity firms in the United States that had set out to buy underperforming companies and turn them... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

respect. While the prestige and group identity that spring from working for a particular institution can be a motivating force for employees, it's pride in what they do—recognition of the intrinsic value of... View Details

Keywords: by Theodore Kinni

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

Can big companies ride the entrepreneurial tiger to transformation and renewal? Yes, said participants in the panel discussion "Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside" at the HBS Entrepreneurship Conference. But... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

first generation of forecasters in the early 20th century, including Roger Babson, John Moody, and economist Irving Fisher. And a group at Harvard published an economic... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Aug 2019
What Do You Think?

Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?

ease of use by instructors, and even useability in an age of “fake facts.” The most negative views came from those experiencing problems arising largely from the way cases were being taught or used. Those utilizing the method in their... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

goods in their stores. “You have to make it clear why it is worth their time and money,” says Lal. A balanced approach to agent network growth is best. When growth is too fast, agents compete among a small View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

market—they must demonstrate to an independent panel from the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) that a new product works better than existing options for an identifiable group of... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

June 1993 (Revised November 2007)
Case

Duckworth Industries, Inc.--Incentive Compensation Programs

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

A private company is considering an introduction of a long-run incentive compensation system in which payoffs to managers are determined by the economic value added for shareholders by their individual business units. The proposed new system is compared to a number of... View Details

Keywords: Executive Compensation; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Value Creation

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19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

its traditional slow-paced and bureaucratic system of R&D to emulate the relatively fast pace and entrepreneurial system of biotech companies." The firm created several specialized research View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

naturally enough, driven by a transition to self-managed teams in production. Managers launched a program of team goals coupled with team-based pay with three possible levels of reward. Managers reckoned... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Dec 2019
What Do You Think?

How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

competitive pressure and highlighted how inherent conflict between an organization's departments can create disaster. The launch of Boeing's Starliner capsule took place 10 months after competitor SpaceX’s successful testing of its... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation

21 Jan 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

One of the highlights of my year is in November, when teams of enterprising families meet for the Executive Education program I founded and still lead at Harvard Business School, Families in Business. One of... View Details

Keywords: Retail

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

norms and how teams will communicate, how they will work together, and how they will ensure psychological safety is established and maintained.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Sep 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation

Uncertain Environment? Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change Following the adoption of a collective bargaining agreement in 2005, National Hockey League GMs had one month to absorb the new rules and put a View Details

31 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

Product Published: April 23, 2012 Upgrades to existing product lines make up a huge part of corporate research and development activity, and with every upgrade comes the decision of how to brand it. Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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