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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
needs of aging baby boomers and the time being right for consumer-driven health care? Yes. These are people who were in college in the 1960s and 1970s and were very successful in bringing about social change... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
expecting anyone to take hold of it, and then someone does, in a warm, accepting way.” The experience solidified Massie's beliefs in compassion, social justice, and the importance of serving others. In 1978,... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
difficult than it seems, since it requires three things: experience in real-world situations, including leadership opportunities; reflection about your experiences and processing objectively what you need to improve; group interactions... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
independently and create his or her own rules. People exert great effort to follow expected dress codes and etiquette in both professional and nonprofessional settings, with the belief that conforming to these written and unwritten rules helps them gain View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
in Maryland and a reputation as power players inside the Beltway. Though collectively they've been dubbed "the Green Giants," Roberts says people would probably be surprised by the topics of their dinner-table conversations. "They're really more View Details
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’
executives in Harvard's Entrepreneur, Owner, President (EOP) program. During that time, she realized that many of her students hadn't spent much time thinking about their own companies' strategies. In this excerpt, Montgomery describes a... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
only 1 or 2, Roger Manley commented that "the thought that management is being 'deprofessionalized' strikes me as a bit of a stretch." Patrick O'Rourke added, "Let's forget about striving to gain View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
agreement about decision-making criteria. At an off-site meeting, for example, the CEO can reveal his priorities and concerns by setting the agenda while giving his team a chance to participate and buy in. A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
level, a child is a luxury item: Those who can afford it will get it, and those who can’t will not. That’s fine when we’re talking about diamonds, but the concern here is that when it comes to children, we... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’
water businesses and water policy from around the world to solve a particular water challenge, and then accepts the best ideas into an accelerator to advance them and help them reach commercial viability. We've had over 650 companies come... View Details
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
For the last hundred years economists and many politicians have voiced concerns about fiscal deficits—with exceptions made for wartime, the Great Depression, and the recent Great Recession. Today, however, a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?
“Walmart is losing several hundred dollars per month in sales at least from us.” Ituk Uppoo was more concerned about inconvenience. As he said, “I give him a C. So they don’t carry ammo anymore, so what? I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
scientific experts, such as virologists, to inform decision-making. Additionally, women are more concerned about health and hygiene issues, as research on disgust-sensitivity shows, and this may also apply... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
were: What part of the job demands rationality? Yaron Kaufman suggested that "Managers must be rational when it comes to planning, financing, operating and measuring business performance . Irrational thinking is needed when you think View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
suggestions, including starting early (Kcorey: “How about connecting with youth at an earlier age who are interested in business?”), emulating efforts to bring women into management education (Roslyn Payne: “In the 1980’s when University... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
“It seems to me that we are now economically and socially divided and burdened in ways that are broadly analogous to 1937. During such times, conflicts (both internal and external) increase, populism emerges, democracies are threatened... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
McBoatface. Overruling the public’s wishes, NERC named the craft after British naturalist Sir David Attenborough. The public was outraged; newspaper editorials decried the lack of democracy, and citizens protested the unfairness of it all on View Details
- 29 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
2+2: Challenging Conceptions of Business
Harvard Business School has been on Jessica Assaf’s mind for a long time. First introduced to campus when she attended her dad’s 20 year reunion (as part of a father-daughter road trip) she was quickly convinced she wanted to follow in his footsteps one day. How did... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
approach. Explains Hood, “Science is hard, and we will have failures; we must accept that we at the leading edge won’t always be successful. But if we start worrying about investing only in grants that have... View Details
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
could not afford them. The executives were far from naive, however, about how tough it can be to create the corporate conditions that also foster social good. When a CEO tries to extend the company mission... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman