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- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
“I think the digital nomads are probably more likely to be Millennials, early career workers who want to travel the world and work, or empty nesters,” Choudhury says. Several countries, including Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Mexico, Norway,... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 02 Aug 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?
“Engagement comes from spirit, and if the organization has little or no spirit—if it see mission as simply ‘maximizing shareholder value’—then engagement will remain an elusive thing.” George Yurieff added that “as long as the order entry numbers are on (or over)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
and mortgage and automobile companies employed—approaches that are diametrically opposite to those outlined in my book and discussed here. These firms did dumb things because their leaders did not make the principled choices outlined above. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
us the background and how you think about innovation? Gary Pisano: Probably the greatest economist of the 20th century was Joseph Schumpeter. He was really the godfather of the economics of innovation. He described a process he termed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
You Are: 15 Harvard Professors Tell Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind). I was probably the lowest-paid member of my class, but that experience led to writing about careers and leadership for HBR, the New York Times, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
most memorably: “I find myself in a Claude Rains Casablanca moment here: ‘I’m shocked, shocked to find that FB and others are making money off my data when they give me their services for free.’” But “shocked” or not, reality probably... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
Tigers. "Consumer product markets in Vietnam are starting to reach capacity, but if you look at companies in the intermediate manufacturing sectors, such as those that serve the car and television industries, there will be many opportunities," she says. "Our... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- Web
ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Elfers (HBS MBA '43), Henry Hoagland (HBS MBA '39), and Charles Waite (HBS MBA '59)–would come to work for ARD. "[Doriot] probably had more to do with the formation of this business than any other single person," Waite notes. "[I]t was... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
finally, can open source projects expect to live longer than commercial ones? The jury remains out on that question too, write Lerner and Tirole. Since open source code is freely available, programs can probably live so long as people are... View Details
- 22 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Side Effects: The Case of Propecia
detailing is 5 percent to 7 percent more effective in driving share growth, she said. And what about that claim that 75 percent of doctors will write a prescription if the patient asks for it by name? "Not really," Wosinska said. DTCA creates drug awareness... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce
activities, moving away from your original business. If you can't consider diversification and entrepreneurial efforts, you are probably not going to survive long-term. Identify And Develop Family Wealth Generators I've written several... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
much of it is traded on exchanges in China. Nervous Chinese leaders have threatened to shut down the exchanges, causing the value of the currency to drop about 30 percent instantly. As comedians often ask, “What could possibly go wrong?” But the same question could... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
implicated in recent acts of corporate malfeasance—could have become so depraved, this is probably the wrong question. Given that human nature does not change much from age to age, the real issue is the effectiveness of the constraints... View Details
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
the individual's ability to cope with and responsibly manage it (for the sake of both the organization and individual). As a general rule of thumb, the risk is probably too great if it will take more than six months to progress far enough... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
clear, with 33 percent of employers blaming missed work days and 28 percent citing lateness. “How can a Kaiser Permanente compete against a sexier company like Google for talent? They probably can’t compete on pay, but they can compete on... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Participants will leave with a toolkit to help assess the severity of exposures and to use probabilities and risk maps to make investment choices. Busting Up the Boys' Club: Why is Gender Diversity So Hard? Professor Kristin W. Mugford... View Details
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
No IPO in recent memory has received as much negative pre-public publicity as WeWork, which provides shared workspaces and services for startups and other enterprises. The outpouring of criticism has focused on a number of items including a record of past and View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
competitors, but now the arena is moving to the WTO, and that's different competition. They are not competing with similar airplanes, they are competing on who convinces the WTO better; and probably they need to work on their government... View Details
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
39 percent of the gender pay gap The social advantage male employees enjoyed with male bosses didn’t occur instantly when they were first paired together, which suggests that knee-jerk discrimination and chauvinism are probably not at... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman