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- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
economic and geopolitical scenarios. As an example, this book takes as a starting point the breakdown of old alliances caused by the end of the Cold War, and projects how the world will look in terms of alliances in 2010, 2015, and 2020.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
Here are the 20 most popular stories from 2007. How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater? Summing up the many responses, Jim Heskett says that the mix of control, delegation, and theater employed by successful... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
made on the right side or the left side of the brain. But this will never lead to deciding by a mechanical means, nor in predicting a decision outcome." There was even concern expressed about the efficacy of MRI-based research on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
What Chung and Zhang discovered was personal selling—the ground war—had a stronger effect on partisan voters, but a candidate's own advertising was better received by nonpartisans. Barack Obama's ground campaign made the difference in the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Research Summary
Technological Change and Competitive Strategy
Richard S. Rosenbloom continues to explore issues in the strategic
management of technology and the relationship between technological
change and competitive strategy. He is currently investigating the
histories of radical technological innovations and their... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
In a new book on the origins and impacts of globalization, Harvard Business School's Geoffrey Jones focuses on the role played by a vital but often ignored actor in this conversation: business entrepreneurs and the multinational... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate
marketing wisdom declared it was the role of the marketer, through careful questioning and study, to understand the wants of the customer. Levitt argued that that approach is limiting—you hit home runs by presenting the customer with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
like to think we can gauge someone's sincerity and commitment by the look in her eyes or the firmness of her handshake. After all, a bargainer who yields to a demand is said to have "blinked." And if we reach agreement, it's... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 24 Mar 2020
- News
“Don’t Zoom While Driving”
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
increased use of more narrowly focused professional accounting "boutiques," suggests that "what the industry really needs is more objectivity and innovation—not a larger tribe of 800-pound gorillas." In retrospect, View Details
John D. Macomber
John Macomber is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School. His professional background includes leadership of real estate, construction, and information technology businesses. At HBS, Mr. Macomber's work focuses on climate adaptation and the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
in the United States, in the 1980s. They started exerting direct pressure on the boards to remove the management of under-performing companies. By the early 1990s, we saw a further rise in institutional investor power and their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
Summing Up How is good judgment developed? Whether judgment trumps experience quickly gave way in this month's rich exchange of views to other questions about how (and the extent to which) judgment is developed. Most of those addressing the question agreed with the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
Photo by iStock Investors in global equity markets have traditionally hedged their bets, casting their investments far and wide across the world. That way, if the market in one country or region stagnated (think Japan in the 1990s or... View Details
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
not clear. Many suggested that the kind of management innovation described by Gary Hamel in his new book, The Future of Management, will more likely occur as a result of forces outside the organization. Tony Gattis described the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Dec 2014
- News
The openness revolution
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
when he said that George Gilder correctly defines knowledge and entrepreneurship as the true driving forces of capitalism. "Airbnb and like companies are accelerating capitalism, not replacing it." As Hugh Quick put it,... View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
When business executives create innovative products or services, they often look to impress their customers by delivering an experience more meaningful, more delightful, than possibly expected. A true "wow!" moment. And Harvard Business... View Details
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
of Leadership and Management; Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna ; and Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor. Speaking Up Recognizing problems in the workplace is commonplace. Speaking up about those problems is... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
improve their trade ‘interoperability...’" Nevertheless, "the US will stay a country with a young and ambitious population benefiting from the flow of immigrants while China is rapidly growing old due to its one-child policy.” View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett