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- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
have “plausible deniability” since they won’t even be able to see the content themselves. One way around that problem would be for regulators to repeal the 1996 Communications Decency Act, Section 230, which granted immunity to internet... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
promising ways of attracting such investors is integrated reporting, which provides companies with a means of credibly communicating the commitment of its top leadership to diffusing integrated thinking across the organization and to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
emphasis on coordinating and communicating with the center's many diverse leaders. "Many nonprofits are led by people who only know programs, not operations," Grossman says. "A key strength of Levy's is knowing how to... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=206078 Southern States Communications 806-170 Managers receiving letters claiming that their products or services violate the intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Reinhardt called this a cautionary tale about the risks of differentiating your product in the marketplace. For differentiation to make business sense, he said, you need a willingness to pay on the part of the customers and a "credible View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
bottom-up strategic initiatives, but also injects meaning into individual effort. It means articulating company values that not only align organizational effort with the overall enterprise objectives, but also define a community to which... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
“You’re able to see how real people have tried the products so you get a sense of how they work for someone just like you,” says Shah. “We source the video reviews from a diverse community of real people across all skin tones, all ages,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
led in the development of the i-lab, which will also serve as a community resource for residents of the surrounding Allston neighborhood. Curriculum innovation for second-year MBAs brings the introduction of the quarter system, which... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
footprint. Should it separate the domestic and international businesses, or should it attempt to integrate the two organisations?" Threadless: The Renewal of an Online Community Shane Greenstein, Karim R. Lakhani, and Christian Godwin... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
high tech community about social issues and the use of its technology. Senior executives of Apple, Tesla, Google, Uber, and Cisco, among others, already had spoken out about the treatment of migrants. A collection, led by Mark Zuckerberg... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
happens, it seems ugly and one-sided, but if you persist, this is what you get.” It’s clear that the business community still has its work cut out for it, particularly with research showing that women don’t fill nearly as many high-level... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
set of functionality that a user will find useful--and is willing to pay (for)." Others pointed out that the high tech community is experiencing disruption at a rapid pace. Commenting on the irony that the cloud is today's mainframe,... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
techniques and menu items introduced, and practitioners learn from each other across the chain. Gawande conveys the impression that the biggest single obstacle to the adoption of these practices may be the practitioners themselves those unwilling to listen, adopt new... View Details
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
investments became productive. Unfortunately, communicating with public investors is often hard to do, none the least because public-firm managers are not allowed to talk to investors privately. And once information conveyed to investors... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
example. Early on, there was a lot of confusion about what a PDA was; some early PDAs looked like substitutes for PCs, others like communication devices. Palm was the first firm to define a PDA as a complement to a PC; Palm's connectivity... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
International, was a pioneer in the evolution of microfinance. It began in 1961 as a sort of pre-Peace Corps program working on community development with the poor in Latin America. In the 1970s it experimented with and developed a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
access to HBS cases. Q: How do you foresee the JRO contributing to the study and practice of management in the region? A: In the future I would like to organize academic conferences where we will contribute part of our intellectual capital to the local View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
disadvantage; in fact, the opposite can be true. Finally, an independent national organization has grown out of my 1995 HBR article "The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City," which is included in this collection. I find that the only sustainable solution... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
do in recognizing and then communicating the user’s commands. Understanding the various levels can help managers focus on the big concepts without getting mired in minutiae. Technology systems consist of five key layers: assembly... View Details