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- 11 Jun 2019
- Book
These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway
social change has been at the center of many entrepreneurial efforts by Harvard Business School alumni. Howard Stevenson discusses their pragmatic approaches to overcoming long odds. Unlocking the Customer View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
about tax legislation beyond concern over the amount of the check we write each April 15? Yes, very much so. Our tax policies reflect the values that the country stands for. Do we cut taxes on top earners or... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
No one says the life of the entrepreneur is glamorous, at least in the start-up phase. Financing pressures. Bad diet. Family—what family? And now new research from Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman reveals another... View Details
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
digital form." Telecom Shakeout HBS assistant professor Thomas Eisenmann, moderator of the panel on "Shakeout in Telecommunications," asked the assembled VCs if they are better able to add View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- Book
Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead
Figuring out the culture component again requires some self-examination, to determine what specific values and what unique lens on the world you bring to situations in order to leverage your unique voice and perspective in the pursuit... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
other groups to win at all costs—suddenly those traits don’t matter anymore. Loyalty forces you to focus in on your goal.” That Achilles’ heel of loyalty is one that managers need to be conscious of in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
industries that can be anybody, anywhere. While some observers have dismissed the phenomenon as exclusive to "a few crazy Internet companies in California," the reality is this: the value of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
learning or competition, regulatory issues related to image and data de-identification and access, and development of contest designs that motivate participation and provide information structures that... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
could only be accomplished by specialists in less convenient, centralized settings. PCs, for example, brought computing power to individuals at a fraction of the cost of minicomputers, replacing the... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
trade relations between the two expanded. China, for a time, became a primary manufacturer of goods for US markets--economists estimate that up to 2 million manufacturing jobs shifted from America to China. At one time, the Chinese... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
and the smarts more shallow as they were passed down the line and across the world—but some value was always transmitted. You Don't Always Need To Be An Expert To Be A Knowledge Coach In 1967, a young graduate View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
at 6,630 or so. The US economy is in its longest economic expansion in history, albeit at growth rates that look anemic compared to other times in history. So that certainly reflects a huge success story, at least when it comes to stock prices and the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 30 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One
researchers gathered data from Twitter (the platform now called X), Google searches, and high-frequency surveys like The Gallup Poll Social Series, Nationscape, and Cooperative Congressional Election Study to chart the evolution View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business
office address that is legitimate in the minds of stakeholders. Firms have to work at maintaining their status in the hierarchy, while legitimacy is a critical issue only in the early stages of firms' lives.... View Details
- 29 Jun 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
retrenchment; think growth. Key concepts include: Companies that survive the financial crisis by identifying and exploiting innovation will serve as economic growth engines in the future—and will be the industry leaders of tomorrow. This... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
force of valued managers, when asked by senior management to conduct and analyze a worldwide employee survey, refused to do so. They simply did not want to be associated with what they perceived would be yet... View Details
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
accountability. Focused tightly on the bottom line, these companies don't know how to quantify the value of legacy functions, which often evolve into jobs that simply support those departments that drive the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
emissions. Perhaps, the opposite is also true. Are things that were once seen as quite dangerous now potentially relatively safe as result of new understandings and innovations? My own concerns about climate change have led me to put... View Details
- 30 Apr 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
Marketing executives value entertainment-related endorsements because of the difficulty of reaching a wide group of consumers using traditional... View Details