Millennium Development Goals - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-032.pdf Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten Abstract If a country's accounting standards represent a political-economic equilibrium, why is that equilibrium for some countries... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?

offers incentives - in the form of credits or allowances - for states that either meet their goals early or exceed the reduction requirements. Nuclear power plays a role in the Clean Power Plan, along with renewable energy sources such as... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

22 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?

out if the goal is simply to increase the absolute number of sales, then a frequent quota is more effective—especially if you’re looking to boost performance of least-effective employees. But if the goal is... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

issue of Medtronic's performance standards, I found that goals and deadlines were routinely set, missed, and then simply adjusted. Poor performance was rationalized by excuses. Even incentive payments were adjusted upward to reflect these... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

29 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

worldwide. The organization is at a crossroads as it attempts to reach the ambitious goal of serving 10% of the 20 million Egyptians living in poverty by 2023, while at the same time developing the local NGO... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell

following six key activities that achieve, then propel, their success. 1. Planning. They develop a family strategic plan—usually with the help of trusted advisors—to specify their goals and values and... View Details

Keywords: by Jonathan Pellegrin; Food & Beverage; Retail

20 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

and shake hands with the Pope John Paul II if he's not a rock-and-roll roll star." A leader's mission is not static; it evolves. Bono continuously sets new goals around several related global challenges. For example, he started advocating... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

to use it, and when not to use it.” Taming the data flow To get a handle on all this data and to better predict outcomes of policies, Luca believes cities need to develop algorithms to coordinate their own data with online information. In... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

05 Aug 2002
What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

Summing Up Platform leadership, the process by which base technologies are developed and on which innovations created by many entrepreneurs can be based, may be characteristic of the knowledge economy. But it isn't new, at least to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Feb 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

judgement, and (4) internal competition that turns friends into enemies. A fifth item on their list is the substitution of several activities—talk, making presentations, preparing documents, developing mission statements, and planning—for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 10

Ashraf, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin Publication:World Development 38, no. 3 (March 2010) Abstract Female "empowerment" has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving other View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2007
What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

in September, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands, by one of my colleagues, Rakesh Khurana, may help explain it. Khurana traces the development of business schools from their early days in a small number of "elite" institutions (his... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

University of Pennsylvania? Wadhwani: My research focuses on the historical development of banking services for ordinary Americans. In the early nineteenth century, banks primarily served the commercial financing needs of merchants, and a... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

02 Jul 2024
Book

Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead

learn to recognize and build their leadership capital—the resources and influence needed to realize their goals, says Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Archie L. Jones. In his recently released book, The Treasure You Seek: A Guide to View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future

Date: December 7-8, 2007 Faculty Chairs: Teresa Amabile, Mukti Khaire Faculty Summary Report: What were the overall goals of the event? To elucidate the antecedents, facilitators, and consequences of creativity in the organizational... View Details

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire

11 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

government than residents who received no transparency at all. Study 3 leveraged proprietary data from a mobile phone application developed by the city of Boston through which residents can submit service requests; the city’s View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

a program (PACT) in Boston to bring care to AIDS and TB patients who were not well served by existing care delivery systems. Describes PIH's programs in the developing world and the way in which lessons learned in these countries informed... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

efforts often look to address bigger problems in society, including climate change, water management, and obesity. Study findings imply that in this stage ultimate responsibility for sustainability shifts from CEO to CSO. The CSO's main responsibility is to help View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning

its market penetration—like that of rivals Microsoft (with the Xbox) and Nintendo (with the GameCube)—has been limited by a narrow customer base of mostly males in their late teens and twenties. Sony's goal is to make the PlayStation a... View Details

Keywords: by Youngme Moon

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