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- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
Would-be innovators know that one of their biggest challenges is systematically identifying the innovations with the greatest likelihood of creating disruptive growth. Pick the wrong one, and squander a year or more of focus and investment. The good View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
The new book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive? argues that traditional store-front retailing is at an inflection point, under tremendous pressure from ecommerce and the changing wants and needs of a View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
variance in operative time, and operative time all decrease with surgeon experience. In-process statistical analyses may represent the beginning of a new paradigm in academic surgical quality and efficiency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
people buy high and sell low. “We can begin to learn which parts of the brain govern how we feel, how we respond to stimuli, and how we react to challenges” Brain scanning technology adds a new dimension to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
will require a new institution that can harness the capabilities of global corporations and, helped by loans from development agencies, directly attack the root causes of poverty. The need for corporate involvement in the fight against... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
safety in popular media increased nearly three-fold in a five-year period beginning in 2013. The presence of psychological safety, according to a number of research projects, favorably affects things such as employee engagement, employee... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
This involved such things as reorganizing, delegating authority, increasing accountability, building trust among employees, and recognizing and rewarding desired behaviors. The authors conclude from this that “cultural change is what you get after you’ve put View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
knowledgeable salespeople with "deep expertise in the categories they served." Against Amazon and other online retailers, these advantages fade. Online retailers have appropriated the strengths of category killers, and can offer wider assortments than any store, have... View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
Superwoman Thanks to intense discussions over dinners with alumnae—the first of which was hosted by Welsh in New York—and to later conversations with faculty and other colleagues at HBS, Hart came up with a plan. The result is Charting... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
becomes undeniable, they shift to blame—trying to sue new entrants, for instance, for not playing by the old rules. Third, they begin to take action, but only in the form of insignificant alterations. At... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
losing teams have star players, but those players often play for themselves, for their own statistics and career, and don’t really care whether their team actually wins games, as I showed in my book Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
Substantive acts have a set form: Parties exchange positions at the beginning of the negotiation and proceed with a series of offers and counteroffers, with little discussion of underlying priorities. Procedurally, if there are multiple... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
in production and economies of scope in distribution. In some industries, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" was gradually tamed by what the historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr. has termed the "visible hand" of professional managers. By the late nineteenth... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
even centuries. In contrast, the New World has a number of large, publicly held corporations that are beginning to play a substantial role in the marketplace. To put this in perspective, consider the fact... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
start tapering, it may get out of the quantitative easing business—give new life to the observation that if the Fed catches a cold, the world gets pneumonia. The formal announcement of Janet Yellen's appointment as the Fed's next chair... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
establishing the struggling young country's financial system. In The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy, Thomas McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
very large organizations. Several respondents commented on dangers to the Walmart business model. Benn Manning commented that "The real dangers for Walmart aren't competitors or new business models but are instead itself and how it... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
concerned about cash, and employees worry about their jobs. But a downturn is no time to stop spending on marketing. The key, says professor John Quelch, is to understand how the needs of your customers and partners change, and adapt your strategies to the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne