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- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
the next decade or so will have to deal with. Q: What else are you working on? A: After Managing Across Borders (on which this Harvard Business Review article "What is a Global Manager?" was based), Sumantra Ghoshal and I wrote... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
company," he said. "It was such a time-consuming process, however, that by the time they were finished, the product was out of date." Find Your Spot On The Spectrum Holding the middle ground of Upton's continuum are two... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation? Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem? Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
equal sway in the media. “The solution can't be mandated solely by an organization.” As the authors suggest, the first two presentations, bias and underrepresentation, have tended to invite straightforward responses from organizations.... View Details
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
competitor Picplz (a poor bet, as was proven by history). In both these cases, the startups stood to benefit not only from the monetary investment, but also from the knowledge the VCs obtained in advising... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
than they otherwise might. Whether this leads to a higher standard of living than that of their European counterparts is debatable. But there is growing evidence that providing pleasant work environments, aided to some degree View Details
Maria P. Roche
Maria Roche is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit. She teaches the MBA elective Innovating at Scale and contributes to teaching in executive education programs. Her research examines how specialized knowledge is commercialized and how... View Details
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E.... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money? How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Illustration... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Image by HBSWK with asset from... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
one continual change initiative. Maybe it's a relief to know that only a few of these efforts will actually be carried through to completion, but that knowledge doesn't do much for morale. Change fatigue is rampant, and it's exacerbated... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
downside, more gains on the upside. The company's goals are the (opposite)." Claude Des Rosiers warned that "There are enough challenges to get people in an organization to work together (without compounding the problem View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
underwriting systems neither approve nor reject. Narrowing the default gap The research team found minority applicants were about 3 percentage points less likely to be approved than white applicants working with the same white loan... View Details
Richard S. Ruback
Richard S. Ruback is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He is currently focusing his research in applied corporate finance, especially... View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
about world poverty. They want to move social marketing beyond mere sales and promotion. They insist that eliminating poverty requires all the complex skills the marketing profession can bring to bear. In this interview with HBS Working... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
Great Training Robbery, a working paper based on case studies conducted by Beer, Magnus Finnstrom, and Derek Schrader, as well as decades of research on training effectiveness, will be the focus of a Harvard... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
e-mail interview, HBS Working Knowledge talked with team member Raj De Datta to hear more about the plan and next steps for Gyaana.Tishler: What inspired you to develop Gyaana? De Datta: The genesis of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
1984 book by Edward Freeman. Roland Marchand may or may not have helped the notion along when he wrote about it as an element of the “corporate soul.” Wikipedia provides one notion of how the concept works... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
understand where or how their money was being invested. “A lot of this is driven by consumers who lack financial sophistication,” Egan says. “Without good knowledge by... View Details