Business or Company Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Feb 2014
HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

"I will not support operations that are killing people." As with most teaching cases at HBS, Part A focuses on a key dilemma: What should Carroll have done? In short, should she have ordered the company to close the mine, to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

02 May 2005
What Do You Think?

Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?

Text-mining technologies can now help companies listen to their customers better than ever... My advice: 'Don't let your competitors listen to your clients; do it yourself first.'" Andrea Learned pointed out, "Eventually, those... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?

we already know. The functionality of these businesses is clear, but their immense popularity can be perplexing. After all, people managed to get married and maintain friendships for eons before the Web ever... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

05 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare

Business Around Medical Conditions The starting point for developing strategy in any field is to define the relevant business or businesses in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

06 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

most entrepreneurs and leaders dealing with the stress of scaling their companies and balancing life’s demands. Therapists are medical professionals with extensive training who focus on an individual’s psychological, emotional, and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

31 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?

continuum according to the situation." Do you agree? Does unleashing the "wisdom of crowds" work well in situations where rapid-fire decision-making is called for? Or is it a luxury available only when the pace of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

several options in managing a trachoma initiative. These options including housing the program internally, partnering with other organizations, or partnering with Clark. In the end the group recommended a... View Details

Keywords: by Diana Barrett, James Austin & Sheila McCarthy

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

provide investors with confidence in what they hear from investment banks. The prospectus presents everything legally. It is the document that sets forth the terms of the sale of shares to the investor. It takes precedence over any verbal representations made by the... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

generally worked with the advertising managers. In its early years, the cosmetics company could not afford a large, mass media campaign. Instead, Estée and department store managers sent mailings to targeted... View Details

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

05 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

friendly, and you can get tickets, then the Games will probably enhance their image” "The Olympics is the most significant sports-based event in the world," says Stephen A. Greyser, professor emeritus in the Marketing unit at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

05 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction

management is the responsibility of none other than the corporation's number-one manager, a conflict of interest that is awkward at best. The obvious solution is separating the two positions—a move many Ford Motor View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

Stock Exchange (NYSE); and Robert C. Gasser, managing director and head of U.S. equities at J. P. Morgan & Co. Financial exchanges today, Seifert began, must have the business systems of a technology... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

12 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

the other parts of the problem,” Shore says. “In that sense, it’s like a model for complex business decision-making because, usually, interesting problems are not just a matter of tweaking one variable up a little bit View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

29 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad

question whether ads, including the over-the-top Super Bowl spots, have become too entertaining, says Thales S. Teixeira, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School. In upcoming research, Why, When and How... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

30 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Deal

It's best to be nice when negotiating a business deal, but it's also OK to be aggressive in pursuing your interests—as long as you back up your position with facts. "If you're a seller and your price seems high, but it's justified in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

15 Mar 2021
Office Hours

Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?

savvy consumer, keep your eyes and ears open, because big companies will always be advertising to you, whether you realize they are or not. "You squat every day, and your life will be better." Question: Are... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

17 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

Center researcher Namrata Arora uncover a complicated mix of piracy and plagiarism that harm not only Hollywood's efforts at success in the Indian market, but local Bollywood companies as well. Iyer says the case can help students and... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

producers, and thus worthy of slapping with 25 percent or higher penalties as they come in the country. The first three pages were chemicals and medical products, and as a one-time chemist I was surprised to see what the US was aiming to... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

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

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