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- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
Summing Up It was announced today (November 27) that Jeffrey Immelt, 44-year-old president and CEO of GE Medical Systems, will succeed Jack Welch as CEO of GE. A CNN online news flash stated that he is "a natural leader,"... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
beginning when its drivers are matched with a paid fare and throughout the duration of that fare. So drivers often don’t buy their own commercial insurance, opting instead to stick with personal insurance. However, in most cities, Uber... View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
In September 2008, Lehman Brothers went under—the largest bankruptcy in American history. But that was just the beginning of the story. What followed was the Great Recession, a gargantuan financial crisis that affected the entire world... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
How does an industry get born? To answer that question, it helps to turn the microscope on one fairly new industry: biotechnology. A still further way to get inside this question, according to HBS professor Monica C. Higgins, is to take a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
turnaround. Consider the situations that confronted new CEOs in three companies: Gillette: Its performance was strong through the mid-1990s, but by the beginning of 2001, this global consumer-products... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
time to wait as the crucial holiday season looms: customers are increasingly trying new retailers and may begin their holiday shopping earlier than ever before. Even as the traditional in-store Black Friday... View Details
- 18 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Marketing After the Recession
involuntarily, since the recession began; but at least you're still in business. “Consumers are looking at your products and services through new lenses.” Now, you are waiting for the recovery, the chance to again have some fun and make... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
using the electrical power and illumination generated from 22,000 temporary light poles, and making their religious commitments as they bathed in the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers over the course of the day, many beginning in the darkness... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
real estate at Harvard Business School, and director emeritus of Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies. In addition, the American economy depends on consumers having access to credit. "The challenge is to avoid the temptation of overcorrecting," he says.... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
Economic difficulties need not mean that we lower our standards for leadership. If anything, we should raise our sights. New work by HBS professor Michael Beer and colleagues shows that there is still a place for what they term... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
the aggregate global production-consumption gap. But any journey begins with one person or corporation taking the first step in the desired direction." Do you agree with White? What do you think? Original Article Inequality, an... View Details
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor cofounded a kidney donation matching system for New England,... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
center of the country and to move goods from the factory to customer. The prosperity that began on the coast spread inland in the first decade of the new century. Q: What were the first red flags that indicated to you that China’s economy... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
investment deals and 2.3 percent of dollars among the investors surveyed went to women-owned firms, the Center discovered. HBS professor Myra M. Hart, an authority on entrepreneurship—especially the founding of high potential new... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
investing in people even prior to the achievement of results. Context Using examples from sports and business, and responding to numerous listener questions, Professor Kanter discussed her research and conclusions from her most recent book, Confidence: How Winning... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
product offerings, start treating the third party suppliers like partners, and invest in local distribution centers.” Other concerns included those associated with changing customer shopping habits, the use of new technologies, and... View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
At the beginning of the year, corporate skullduggery seemed limited to one or two egregious examples. A couple of bad apples won't spoil the whole bunch, we said to ourselves. But in the past several months, rottenness may have achieved a... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
distinct competitive disadvantage for nonprofits." A small number of attempts are under way to begin to alleviate some of these problems, Grossman notes, including some eight "venture-capital-type philanthropic funds" that provide the... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
the tumultuous path to publication that begins for many of us with trying to publish our dissertation. We invited Roy J. Lewicki and J. Keith Murnighan—the 2013 and 2015 recipients of the International Association for Conflict Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
puzzling and frustrating when I had the sense that our team failed to make the most of everyone's input. As a project manager I had made sure we held a kickoff meeting in the beginning of each new assignment... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert