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27 May 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered Are global brands effective? How should I think about strategy in a flat... View Details

26 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

is perceived relative power in the negotiation environment and what did your research show in terms of how it can affect the outcome? Kathleen McGinn: Perceived relative power has two components. First, it's perceived in the sense that it... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

15 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

How much of your product do you share? Does your business model extract value from a core product or a portfolio of complementary products?" Most academic research has focused on individual contributions to OSS, but this working... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

27 Oct 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

actions that are aligned with producing them. Fundamentally, that is the focus of our work in the Social Enterprise Initiative. Board and executive leaders today are confronted by a confusing landscape of conflicting demands, rapidly... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

corporate management, and how PGL helps executives address these critical issues. Q: How are fundamental changes occurring in the global business environment driving change at the organizational level? A: These are turbulent times for... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 Apr 2017
HBS Case

This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

of both their consumers and regulators. “Usually, with debt collection, the object is to dial for dollars—collect as much as you can in the first phone call, and then outsource the work to the legal system,” says Campbell, whose research... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

03 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

reactor, in the US. Bill Gates is its chairman. Earlier this year, the company signed a memorandum of understanding with the China National Nuclear Corporation targeting the first working prototype in China. ThorCon Power has designed a... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy

06 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

that are thoughtfully resourced and leave a smaller environmental footprint. Investors are paying attention, too, with impact investing hitting $60 billion in 2015. Attention to the negative impacts of work on health is also on the rise.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

The Creativity Maze

motivation. And just as important, they work in organizations where managers consciously build environments that support these characteristics instead of destroying them. View Details

Keywords: by Teresa Amabile

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

plants. After much debate around the choice of technology," she continues, "the company reexamined its concerns about the environment and realized they originated in a broader commitment to social responsibility. Managers then... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

said minority-owned companies can make for a more comfortable work environment for professionals of color. "Unfortunately, there are not as many as we may like," he said. Smaller, friendlier, less... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

technology, health and consumer care, and renewable energy. His scope of work to date encompasses the United States, the European Union, Brazil, India, Malaysia, South Korea, Philippines, Canada, and multiple African countries. In our... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

quite comprehensive. They include not just GHGs, but other environmental resources like water requirements and other pollutants you might care about as well,” Toffel says. The researchers outline how some software programs and data work... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

23 May 2011
Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

Editor's note: Please see related story, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It's Effective. To what extent companies contribute to a sustainable society is a question increasingly important, not only to the companies themselves, but also to investors, the countries... View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

24 Oct 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can innovation and creativity be managed? Where do creative ideas come... View Details

13 Feb 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of liberalism, he looked not only to the works of great thinkers but also to their reception and use amid revolution and interstate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

strokes" to quickly mobilize the organization, with initiating a "long march" that changes systems and habits. Leaders must start by building credibility and confidence in the organization through small wins. This can occur by fixing the View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

the programs. It's a process. It's slow. Ebrahim: I couldn't agree more. For a nonprofit leader, it's risky to reveal that your work is not having the impact you desire, particularly in this economy. If we can flip that attitude so that... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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