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- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
of the companies in the sample had reached substantial size at the time they stalled, suggesting that organization size must play a role in this... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
Gerdeman's story The Manager in Red Sneakers. 2. Resolution: Work harder to meet the demands of a job where you’ve been failing to shine. Tip: Ask yourself whether the problem is actually the job, not you.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
product and service experiences that exceed customer expectations and the offerings of competitors. What's the secret? Success in business as well as magic has less to do with... View Details
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
the California power industry, for example, she questioned the deregulation of wholesale markets first. Second, in response to consumer confusion, an anonymous respondent suggested that government could play... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
LEED is government policy, government tenants might expect LEED certification from their landlords. "The characteristics of a government tenant can break down important contractual and business barriers to... View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
in their privacy policies, the paper states. The researchers were quick to point out that they were not recommending a restriction of disclosure practices, since "high-disclosure services play an important... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
In 2009, a stroke victim at a Los Angeles medical center started losing his hair following a CT brain perfusion scan. After some confusion, doctors determined he had been subject to a radiation overdose—a serious accident that might lead... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
Summing Up Responses to this month's column lead one to conclude that we can expect that more major accounting scandals are in our future. Causes, according to these thoughtful comments, range from the... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
what “pre-soliciting clients” meant, for example. Do the same when you’re in the role of NewCo. Taking great care in hiring teams and individuals... View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
is well and alive, and P2P offers great opportunities to promote new content. Clearly, there is a profit-enhancing role for some type of bundling even with digital distribution. However, it is also possible... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
tremendously inspirational -- to have models of success in innovating curricula," Herzlinger says. Additionally, HBS professors Richard Hamermesh and Robert Higgins led a session on the View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
largely from Mexican readers—not surprising in view of the central role that Vicente Fox, the president-elect of Mexico, is View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
document the dysfunctional role of the airlines in weakening airline security throughout the '90s and into the twenty-first century. We also show the dysfunctional View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
from a distraught student. She was born and raised in one of the banned countries, and held a Canadian passport as well as a passport from that banned country. Her family was located View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
endorsers. Formula 1 racing, golf, tennis, and soccer account for the lion's share of endorsers with global appeal. In the United States, football, basketball, baseball, and NASCAR racing probably account... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
better health when we are over the crisis? Not just in terms of social justice, but economic prosperity as well? As the most trusted player, shouldn’t civil society have a pivotal View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details