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- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
Well, I think, our life's greatest obstacles present us the most opportunity. What fun would life be if we never faced any adversity? What sense of fulfillment would we have if we never had an obstacle to overcome? What sort of growth... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Vavilov, who had co-founded Bitfury and expanded it substantially from its bitcoin mining roots, felt a blockchain-driven makeover of this sort would take place not just in Georgia's government but also around the world. It was not a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
on the circumstances and prospects of a company. In fact, companies often turn to outsiders because they have failed to recruit, train, and develop the sort of talent that might take over leadership of the organization. To avoid this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
you know, what kind of comp plan are you using? Or different things like that. And so we grew to love each other. Because each one of us had their turn in the barrel. DM: You know, you mentioned by the end of your tenure at GE that you had View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
to commune with someone else. We can look for these moments where we have to rely on others. Those actually make the experience more meaningful. And to go back to what I sort of opened with, these happiness studies tend to focus on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
mysterious about a little cake made of butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and a bit of vanilla. It’s the aroma those ingredients make in a hot oven that can cause anyone in the vicinity to inhale deeply and wonder, in an animal sort of way, how... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
take many years to design and build and then have decades of useful life. This means that it needs to understand now what sorts of missions it may be required to perform in 10, 20, or 30 years and what assets and infrastructure it will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
licensing. Indeed, many of the ideas Pisano has advanced over the years are being adopted by the biotech industry. It is precisely this sort of real-world research and analysis, resulting in value-added intellectual capital, that has... View Details
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
other clubs would be likely to pay him. They also had to weigh what sort of precedent, good or bad, that deal would set for the other players they were trying to sign. Finally, they had to anticipate how their moves would affect the... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
According to Andrew S. Grove, chairman and co-founder of Intel, when a company's understanding of itself shifts, when it changes its strategic paradigm, it sets out on a journey akin to moving from one mountain peak to another through what he calls a "valley of... View Details
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
This daunting task has attracted a large number of business researchers over the years. Their hope is that business scholarship will play a central role in sorting out the relationship between shareholders, with their economic interests,... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
deployment. People in other countries definitely get more bandwidth for less money. Some countries, such as South Korea, appear to be far ahead. Whether or not this will have major business consequences remains to be seen. Q: What sort of... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
little experience competing for resources and bucking inappropriate processes within a stable, efficiency-oriented operating culture. In order to be confident that managers have developed the skills required to succeed at a new assignment, one should examine the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
School’s Bureau of Business Research published in the 1920s, and I’m sure cases at the end of the 21st century won’t look much like they do now — we’ll probably be viewing them on some sort of handheld device. But I’d guess that they’ll... View Details
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
Parsons. "If one is paid only on the profits of his division, then he has incentive to poach people from another division. You don't want that." Within the Methodist church, at least, there is a check on this sort of behavior:... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
particularly balancing security interests with economic interests to avoid provoking precisely the sort of damaging confrontation that we would like to avoid. Recovering the US business community’s voice in the legislative and regulative... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
in 1979, when Deng Xiaoping reopened China, everybody sort of threw up their hands in despair and said, “How can you compete with a billion people in China?” So we were there at the beginning of the globalization of labor-intensive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
small monthly fee of about $6 for access to primary health care and specialists for urban individuals and families with annual incomes of less than $3,500. This is just the sort of BoP business solution that has drawn many of the students... View Details
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
geographies, it seems reasonable to expect the contest for recognition to intensify. Many moral gray zones provide readily available intra- and inter-occupational sorting mechanisms. In global labor markets, moral gray zones will likely... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
siblings, that makes this even harder. Some sort of childcare solution is necessary. If employers could be flexible with an employee’s scheduling, that would enable the parent to support their kids’ education, particularly when they’re... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie