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- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
a way to do it," with some cautions and advice about how to make such information available to all. For example, Praveen pointed out that, "It is essential to have a culture of mutual trust but we also need to have mutual... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
Like: Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray Empower Your Employees to Make Better Decisions Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
conduct sociological and psychological studies to get a true handle on what motivates people to do what they do—and what motivates them to do better. With that, we share some well-researched tips—based on the findings of behavioral... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced
where gender diversity is valued. This is presumably because this kind of context creates a safe environment for women to contribute their ideas freely and therefore encourage the flow and exchange of ideas,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. That’s what I learned to do as the 27-year-old general manager of Litton Industries’ microwave oven division. I recruited an experienced team of appliance industry... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
And they're rarely alone." You will see lightening striking more than once in the same place, and I would never fight it.— Jim McCall, Intel Capital Added McCall: "That (big) company has five... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
Buffett's offer and wondered what he saw in the declining industry that others did not," notes Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor Benjamin C. Esty, the author, with senior case researcher Aldo Sesia,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
venture capital firm Globis Group and chairman and CEO of private equity concern Apax Globis Partners & Co., was the only panelist to voice undaunted enthusiasm about a... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
book excerpt Forecasters From the introduction of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's Economic Forecasters By Walter A. Friedman This is a book about a group of entrepreneurs who, like Evangeline Adams, identified a business... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
two: new ventures need dedicated teams, given space and autonomy. But venture teams also need to be responsive to business realities. And they need to have sponsors in the... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
What does nationalism mean for the world economy? And what does it have to say in a world of ever-increasing globalization? We recently put those questions to political scientist and HBS professor Rawi... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
an entire group of lower level functions and staff." Rich Lanza pointed out that "(Section 404) is a necessary step ... (but) more continuous controls monitoring is needed that independently... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
person's commitment to service outside of their profession ... as good an indication as any of a person's commitment to more than just achieving status and making money" (Tammy Doty); 3) encouraging a school's admissions View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 May 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals
As a Harvard Business School professor for 20 years, V.G. Narayanan has significant experience using the School's pioneering case method to teach business concepts—introducing a real-world management problem, and then using the Socratic... View Details
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
"With $4 million, Coke may get $40 million in people's time and attention over the course of the year," says Teixeira. The Super Bowl has always been as big a battle between advertisers as a competition between the View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says... View Details