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07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

their focus to developing countries, which have undertaken ambitious and dramatic infrastructure projects in recent years. India’s Golden Quadrilateral highway received new sections and major upgrades between 2001 and 2006, when 95... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

Her objective of working with retailers known for carrying high-quality, premium-priced merchandise probably owed something to the social aspiration that drove her. Her interest in such stores was also... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

participation is critical to prosperity because the more people who work as a proportion of the total working-age population, the higher per capita income will be whatever the wage level. All of this is... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue

energy, or make the energy she uses cleaner, she is just as happy. And the way we will figure out how to get our work done with less energy, or to clean the energy we use, is... View Details

Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities

05 Mar 2014
What Do You Think?

When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?

employee prompts me to ask the question above. It also brings back vivid memories of the last bubble, seen from the inside. In the spring of 2000, signs of the end of a dot.com bubble were all around us. As... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Publishing; Retail

05 Sep 2000
What Do You Think?

Whither the Information Economy?

the end is better products and services. According to Bob DeNoble, "... information is a tool to help get the real work done. It enables us View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Dec 2013
HBS Case

D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

success of the 10-year-old D'O and poses questions about Oldani's plans for growth. Both the chef and the professor met with Harvard Business School Working Knowledge to talk about the secrets View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Joanie Tobin; Food & Beverage

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

subcommittee planning the direction of future research efforts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He has also been asked to head task forces determining future food policy for the Netherlands and the state of Kentucky. "I can't... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

29 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

career advice and placement for our students. Our core Real Property survey course is in the fall of the second year. We also have two new winter courses on Emerging Real Estate Markets and Design, Development and Construction. In addition, we have View Details

Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

selling his company, Excelan, to Novell in 1989, Rekhi put his newfound wealth and entrepreneurial skills to work helping other ambitious South Asians. Two of his beneficiaries... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

patterns across countries or by investigating listing decisions across borders. In both cases, firms are presumed to be entirely local. The limited understanding of multinational finance we had was from survey evidence, including the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

20 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

approach you took here and what you hoped to achieve by casting a wider net? Letian Zhang: I decided to explore the relationship between diversity and performance using a cross-national and cross-industrial... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

Domini, who runs a fund specializing in socially responsible investments, was posed a similar, although theoretical, problem. Would she invest in a company doing great works for society, but whose board was all male? Hayes and Domini took... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Mar 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

Applegate teaches "innovation is not an option." We've identified articles and working papers covering a wide range of thinking about innovation management to answer some specific questions you may have... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

analysis is possible, commit to moving in a particular direction, carefully plan the immediate next steps, work hard to learn from execution and experiment, seize opportunities... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco

06 Nov 2000
What Do You Think?

Succession at GE: What’s Next?

'change,'" and a working knowledge of "new" economics, in the opinion of Devdip Ganguli. Roberto Rodriguez added "global thinking" and "entrepreneurial spirit" to the list.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

in the black. "They underestimated the risk associated with paying bribes, but they also overestimated what they were going to make on profits," says Healy. "Most companies don't have the luxury of going View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

Editor's note. On Sunday, the left-leaning Syriza party and its leader Alexis Tsipra won a decisive national victory in Greece, partly on pledges to reduce current austerity measures and to seek a... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

individual entrepreneurs and organizations. But, in the age of M-form corporations, managing "implies responsibility for attempting to shape the economic environment, for planning, initiating, and carrying through changes in that... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

04 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

Working PapersThe "Fees Savings" Link, or Purchasing Fifty Pounds of Pasta Authors:Michael I. Norton and Leonard Lee Abstract Many consumers have had the experience of entering discount membership clubs View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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