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13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

placing children and good means of detecting any illegal baby selling. Most importantly, we could work much harder to ensure that home studies are completed—accurately and in depth—by reputable adoption agencies. Q: Moves toward... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

31 May 2016
HBS Case

Who Owns Space?

sights on a mission to Mars and innovative technologies for deep space exploration. CCDev offers a clear example of how the public and private sectors can work together to pursue commercial goals and public... View Details

Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace

14 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53461 2017 Making Research Matter: A Psychologist's Guide to Public Engagement Government and Organizations: Transforming Institutions Using Behavioral Insights By: Dalton,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008

carefully analyzed their incentives but that we know little about the broader strategic dimensions of this market. The paper explores three related strategic dimensions of the certification market: the publicity given to applications, the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-005.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAmerican Cancer Society: Access to Care Harvard Business School Case 109-015 CEO John Seffrin decides to radically change the strategy of the American Cancer Society. The new Access to Care... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

What's good for General Motors may no longer be good for the country. In its place must arise a new model of the company, one that serves society as well as rewarding shareholders and employees, Kanter... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

10 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos

indications incorrectly, that Dao had been violent. United suffered in the court of public opinion—and in litigation too, as Dao’s attorney extracted what was by all indications a sizable settlement. A customer with a camera can be a... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Food & Beverage; Air Transportation; Retail; Service

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

In her new book SuperCorp, Rosabeth Moss Kanter argues that capitalism is near a crossroads. The old ways of doing business no longer work. Traditional leadership roles are breaking down. And the public is fed up with greedy executives... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

makeups support more chain restaurants, but that other factors, including suburban sprawl and public transit commuters, also have some impact. Read the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

“comvoc”), and leave their differentiated personal selves and external group memberships behind. All it took to motivate people, it was thought, was to offer financial incentives, and good results would follow. Well, we know where an... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Jul 2018
Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

among graduates aiming for both success in business and beneficial impact on the world around them. They have come to believe that one can either succeed in business or enhance society—by expanding economic opportunity or by improving View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

Publications 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts By: Eisenmann, Tom, ed. Abstract—Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best posts from many blogs on technology startup... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Brexit is Not Better for Britain Britain rarely has referendums, and for good reason. They call for binary decisions on complex issues, and voters have all sorts of reasons for voting one way or another. It is unprecedented that British... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

be changed? Will it require “outside” interventions, such as those provided by new corporate policies, behavior measurement, rewards, and—in spite of admonitions from legal counsel—the publication of gender-specific results (hiring,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

platform might be too good to be true. The company was crowdsourcing creative work, inviting people to both pitch ideas and create marketing videos — and promising to pay anywhere from a few hundred for the best concepts to several... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

Reviewing a spectacular business failure, we often wonder why the CEO didn't see trouble coming. It was so obvious. Why didn't Digital Equipment Corp. CEO Kenneth Olsen see the PC as a threat to minicomputers? Did Coca-Cola's Roberto Goizueta really think New Coke was... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

faculty, whose scholarship and teaching skills attract hundreds of Harvard MBA students to their classrooms each year. Among the latest books by HBS historians are publications by Professor Chandler, Professor Nancy Koehn, and Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

05 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which has gaping loopholes. Some of the arrangements behind the Indonesian projects seem not to have violated the law, but they didn't smell good in the light of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

30 May 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?

other party ” Questions of national economic interest, he continued, “should take a back seat to questions of individual interest when considering this issue.” Rick Mueller countered this argument. “IP developed in this country is largely a result of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

02 Aug 2004
What Do You Think?

For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

broken. It is really about people and ethics." B. V. Krishnamurthy concurred, saying "... the Act ... is unlikely to result in any radical transformation of the system. Such a transformation has to be an internal process with managers understanding their role... View Details