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- 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 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
analyze how it is being spent. If substantial time allocations do not match top priorities, he discusses how these tasks should be either delegated or eliminated. "When someone asks you to spend time on work that doesn't match your key priorities, the right action... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
York after graduating from college. Then, in 1988, Ferguson and Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990) founded Urban Profile, a lifestyle magazine for young African-American professionals. “We didn’t consider printing costs or subscribers,” Ferguson remarks. “It’s View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
specialists, pulmonary and critical care doctors, and virologists, probably had a much better sense of what treatments to use and when relative to smaller hospitals that are close by.” By directing Black patients to hospitals that provide... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
were the social cost of carbon. Which I think is probably a couple of times higher than that, but let's imagine that for argument's sake. That means those folks are kind of opting in to a carbon priced world where they're recognizing this... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
We all understand at some level that stars in the worlds of film, sports, and even business create results. If you want big box office for Pirates of the Caribbean, it probably pays to sign Johnny Depp to play the lead. But Harvard... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
opportunities that particular protagonist has. The underlying premise is that after thinking and trying to feel like a decision maker, there’s a higher probability of our students being able to think about complex issues and work through... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
many stocks in a lot of countries and weighting the countries more or less equally. It's simply too difficult to predict which market's going to be down 67 percent and which one's going to be up 102 percent in any given year.” Biggest disappointment: “Oh, View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
("we're probably one degree of separation away from anybody who's anybody on the Internet") — are what it takes to get a business going: "It's not just dumb money." Connections are key, agreed Cambridge Incubator's... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
things don’t have to happen right this instant. This is the new norming that needs to happen.” 7. Accept that productivity will probably suffer Choudhury’s research shows productivity often increases with remote work. But now, with... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
behavioral economics research. Our hope is that it encourages people to go back to TMS and read it for themselves—it's a truly wonderful book. Q: What do you think Adam Smith's impression would be of the current formal academic study of behavioral economics? A: I think... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 04 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?
adults—hypothesizing that the effects would change not only with age, but also with the degree of temptation. "If we used the same temptation of candies in an office, probably we wouldn't find anything, but using a different... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding