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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
Rivkin and Porter: HBS alumni are in a position to help put America back on a more competitive footing in the world economy. View the survey results Watch Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin introduce the project Join the conversation Read a View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Growing the Seeds of an Early-Stage Startup
a family, where everyone is passionate and has one another’s back. Another eye-opening experience is the constant pivots due to our limited resources. At my previous employer, I was often time-constrained but resource-rich. I would seek research support from View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
what lies ahead in your professional or personal lives. The School can benefit enormously by actively leveraging the breadth and depth of knowledge and experience available across our alumni base. Together we can and need to do it. I hope... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
with a group of other investment professionals, has $250 million under management and specializes in later-stage invest-ments in companies that could use a boost in capital to grow substantially. “Our operating philosophy is to invest... View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
Casadesus-Masanell and Hervás-Drane provide additional details about their research in the Q&A below. They collaborated in answering the following questions for Working Knowledge via email. Q: It appears that consumers are often... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation... View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
forthcoming Abstract With rising CEO turnover, companies are increasingly looking outside for qualified candidates. Sure, externally recruited CEOs bring fresh perspectives and connections. But they lack the in-depth knowledge of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
What are the first things you should do in your new post? In this e-mail Q&A, Michael Watkins offers strategies that he researched while preparing his new book, The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels (HBS Press, 2003). Martha... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
for managers who do not have intimate knowledge of the content of their work. This emphasis on demonstration of capabilities is even more critical in the open source community. One earns the respect of peers by demonstrating skills and... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
treasurer. Last fall, the two brothers consolidated stock in the business between them after buying out the stakes of other family members. “I concentrate on the overall experience of our business with special attention to the retail... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
"The Changing Structure of the Global Wine Industry," won the Best Paper award at the 2003 European Applied Business Research Conference. Roberto recently shared his thoughts on wine for HBS Working Knowledge in an e-mail... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
John, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets unit at Harvard Business School. “They assume the Bachelor can only like one type of woman.” “When you like one lake, people infer that you hate cities” It turns out those fretful competitors... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
professional goals, she did not realize what made the company so special until after she resigned. Only then did she comprehend what being a true leader involved. The Index Revolution: Why Investors Should Join It Now by Charles D. Ellis... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
marketers can understand human behavior on a much deeper level and begin to use that knowledge to their advantage. Zaltman argues that marketers need to embrace a new paradigm that connects mind, body, brain, and society. Consider the... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
network, the contacts, the knowledge of tropical medicines and the knowledge of many countries where this disease was." Terrorism And Crime Professor Rafael Di Tella teaches the Business, Government and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
explains. “They were very entrepreneurial and had great niches. And now we have to pull all of them together to act as one company.” He reels off a trio of management challenges: retaining valued workers whose knowledge and... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
Professor Herzlinger shared her vision for health care in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. Herzlinger's next book, Consumer-Driven Health Care, will be published in January 2003 by... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
draw conclusions, based on scientific evidence, on what does or does not work to enhance organizational performance." Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance of the U.S. National Research Council Commission... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
interests of the United States,” and “opposes undue burden on members of our community.” As of this writing, the signatories include some 50 Nobel Laureates and more than 14,800 faculty members at US colleges and universities. Harvard Business School Working View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
improves communication and coordination, and sets up the possibility of knowledge transfer between them. The advancements accrued not just to individual radiologists, but to the outsourcing firm as well. Huckman explains what happens as... View Details