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- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
example, some filings for materials that prevent oxidation of medical implants and air filters with the potential to deactivate viruses didn’t cite any studies. Krieger’s findings show that patents in the same technology category that... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
"servant leadership." Without hesitating, he asked an associate to get him some cleaning materials and proceeded to get down on his hands and knees to soak the coffee out of the carpeting while his board of directors stood... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 27 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Working to Change the Food System
genetic engineering, we can not only make these microalgae orders of magnitude faster growing and more resource efficient than traditional crops, but also expand the range of materials and products these microalgae can produce, improving... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
Adderley, et al. How could he give them more freedom, more empowerment? Maybe he realized that playing easier material would in itself help emancipate the players—even if he was dealing with the best talent in the business. I think the... View Details
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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About
owned, or managed by a faculty member. These entities include all for-profit and non-profit businesses and social enterprises, as well as venture capital funds, private equity funds, hedge funds, search funds, and other investment vehicles in which a faculty member has... View Details
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
material at any pace; it can customize for a student's preferred learning style; and it is more affordable than the current school system. Q: What is the promise you see in this regard in the emerging online user networks? A: Disruption... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
structures. More important, it requires the will to provide concrete support to employees’ material and mental wellbeing. Case 1: Support employee adjustments to remote working For many companies, remote work was a complete novelty prior... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
emphasize their strengths, give to others, and empathize with their own troubles through self-compassion. A second group was given educational materials about how to improve their mental well-being—the equivalent of handing people a... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
whether these trends are material to their business. One answer could lie in forecasting the impact of the Internet on sales in various categories in their stores. A more practical solution might lie in determining the trend in gross... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
York Times best-seller list for 27 weeks, he did take on another kind of business adversary, those he saw as laying waste to his beloved Sarasota and to Florida’s environment. In the novel, developers and builders, having recklessly destroyed habitat and cut corners on... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
customer demand. CUTTING EXPENSES AND PAYING BONUSES In addition to furloughs, the Honeywell leaders cut production and financial expenses, focusing on efficiencies in managing their supply chains and reducing inventories, material costs,... View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
1936, a demonstration of how polarizers work featured Wheelwright holding two discs of polarizing material and rotating them to the degree that a portion of his face no longer appeared. The converging discs, with their simple, delicate... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
would always remind his visitors that good source material was the key to good history and would want to know what research collection they were using at Baker Library. His enthusiasm for the subject of business history, and for history... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
that’s something we’ve never seen.” Dlodlo did receive a small government grant to support the acquisition of the furniture factory that she plans to turn into a live-work space; and she is hopeful that more significant public aid will View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
entitled "The Future of MBA Education," and Srikant and I were responsible for preparing and leading it. Our initial goal was simply to gather enough material to conduct a day-long conversation with our faculty drawing on interviews with... View Details
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Sustainability and Integrated Reporting
A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details
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Research Thrust
By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
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By: Debora L. Spar
I'll have a girl, please
American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006
DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details
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AOM Ethno PDW 2009-2014
AOM PDW 2014: Being There/Being Them: Entry, Exit, and In-Between in Organization Ethnography
Co-Organizers: Michel Anteby, Harvard; Curtis K. Chan, Harvard; Julia DiBenigno,... View Details
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Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach
This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details