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  • 30 Jun 2021
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

un-innovative. I am interested to dive in as she connects the dots from more inventive and ambitious government to a more dynamic, more sustainable capitalism. Mitchell Weiss (@MitchWei) is a Professor of Management Practice, the Richard... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
  • 09 Sep 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

Values, and Damages Great Companies Performance hacking means overzealous advocacy of positive interpretations to the point of detachment from actuals. In business as in research there are strong incentives for it, but if behaviors are not checked, a crash becomes... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

"spiritual anchors for the new millennium." Clearly, something of a nonmaterial nature is stirring in the corporate temple. But questions abound. Just what does it mean to bring spirituality into the workplace? Is this an appropriate way to help people feel... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 10 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

can't talk about systematization in the traditional sense because systematization implies producing consistent outcome. I prefer to believe that innovation is about producing inconsistency of outcome, and valuable inconsistency at that. As HBS professor View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

    Mitchell B. Weiss

    Mitch Weiss is the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the school's course on Public Entrepreneurship—on public leaders and private entrepreneurs who invent a difference in the... View Details

    • 30 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    New Paths to Success in Asia

    modest size." Technology has also inspired Professor Richard L. Nolan's current interest in Asia. Nolan, who was involved in the recent Tsinghua program and teaches Competing in the Information Age in... View Details
    Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
    • October 1993 (Revised April 1994)
    • Case

    Jack Welch: General Electric's Revolutionary

    By: Joseph L. Bower and Jay Dial
    Describes the work of Jack Welch as CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 1992, focusing particularly on his transformation of the company's portfolio through extensive dispositions and acquisitions and the company's culture through a mandated process called "work out."... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Transformation; Investment Portfolio; Leadership Style; Management; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career
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    • 22 May 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: May 22

    Publisher's Link: http://hbr.org/product/sleeping-with-your-smartphone-how-to-break-the-24-/an/10816-HBK-ENG Assessing Country Competitiveness: The Case of Spain Authors:Mercedes Delgado and Christian H.M. Ketels Publication:In Innovation, Global Change and Territorial... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 10 Sep 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

    submitted, from managing a remote workforce to making decisions in the face of vast uncertainty. Not surprisingly, one significant challenge reported by many CEOs was how to position their company to survive, or even thrive, during the... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
    • 25 Jun 2001
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Machiavelli, Morals, and You

    how they should be governed, what they should worship, and how they should have power over their lives. Leadership is a struggle by flawed human beings to make some important human values real and effective, in the world as it is.... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 03 Sep 2014
    • What Do You Think?

    Who Should Choose Your Boss?

    the world choosing a leader for an organization is a primary responsibility of a board of directors. But others tempered that judgment with a variety of cautions. Richard Belloff made the base case by saying... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage
    • 19 Jan 2021
    • In Practice

    Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

    architecture for scaling, ideally so that users make other users better off?” Mitchell Weiss (@MitchWei) is a Professor of Management Practice, the Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow, and the author of We... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 26 May 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    What Your Competition is Telling You

    and do it more efficiently, over time. Richard E. Beville should know. The chief operating officer of Lamont Digital Systems, a Greenwich, Conn., provider of digital telecommunications services, Beville started his career in the Bell... View Details
    Keywords: by David Stauffer
    • 10 Jul 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    The State of the Markets

    High on every agenda as well, of course, is the use and impact of technology, and that was the focus of a Global Alumni Conference session hosted by HBS professor Richard Nolan. Titled "Technology and... View Details
    Keywords: by James E. Aisner
    • 05 Mar 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

    second largest e-commerce company by gross merchandise volume (GMV) after Alibaba, had expanded rapidly from 2012 to 2016. When the company celebrated its 13th birthday in 2017, Richard Liu, its founder,... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 13 Feb 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

    2018 Pearson Education Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan Abstract—Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the cost accounting market and continues to innovate today by consistently... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Mar 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: March 1

    require that all companies with exchange-listed securities publish detailed business reports as frequently as the FTC desired. Wall Street, represented in particular by New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) President View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 24 May 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: May 24

      PublicationsClusters and Competitiveness: Porter's Contribution Authors:Christian H.M. Ketels Publication:Chap. 10 in Competition and Competitive Advantage: The Ideas of Michael Porter, edited by Robert Huggins and Hiro Izushi, 173-192.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne