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- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
are “fanatically customer and employee-centric transforming leaders” and who will create organizations in which “employees live the mission in their work”? To what extent does formal business education even play a part in the development... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in research and development (R&D) can have quite divergent, but predictably divergent, future paths. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Business Summit: Business Education in the 21st Century
data about the challenges facing the business education marketplace and presented qualitative information on innovations in top MBA programs. On the whole, MBA programs are in decline. Their value is being questioned, and they are seen as overly emphasizing analytics... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine. The results of our comparative study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
growth, and the estate tax. The treatment has large effects on views about inequality but only slightly moves tax and transfer policy preferences. An exception is the estate tax-informing respondents of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
$1 million annually in cash and in-kind gifts and helping the organization to expand nationally. City Year in turn played a central role in helping Timberland develop and implement its strategy for community service and a high-engagement... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
Ultimately, some extra patience might be required. “You’ll have to set expectations and train people, especially managers, that they cannot expect answers instantaneously,” he says. “You’ll have to be patient and wait for the person who is sleeping in Tokyo to wake up... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
early twentieth century. It is a story, in part, about how fortune telling was professionalized. Unlike Adams, whose insights into the future rested on her purported ability to read the stars, the entrepreneurs profiled here were... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
have developed a perspective on strategies for the near-term and long-term. But first, before anything else, it’s important to stop the bleeding; that is, deal with crises and pain points. Whether the problems involve financial distress... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
for clues into the developing stance of the government. Added Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard professor and former director of Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, "A lot of deregulation is really reregulation. It is a different... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
85 percent of consumers make a purchase after reading such online reviews. But in the world of doctors, nothing compares in assisting consumers to make decisions that are arguably more involved emotionally and with higher financial risk.... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
Industry Location Author:Arthur A. Daemmrich Abstract A consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of mass-marketing blockbuster drugs. In a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
involved a developed economy, "That would (suggest) a new type of fourth world country, a developed economy which just turned into a developing one." Should world... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
reading preferences? We know you’re busy, so we'll be brief. Take our survey Whether finance is a necessary precondition for development is obviously important for developing... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
integrated innovation? Our model has firms with limited visibility that either control all aspects of product innovation (integrated innovation) or open their designs to components developed by other players (open innovation). We show... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
with the project at hand. Specifically, we study an academic researcher’s (1) personal background (gender and country of origin economic advancement), (2) professional development (time since PhD completion and editorial review board... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
quality, firms differentiate through choosing different business models; and (iv) low-quality firms are generally more prone to opening some of their technologies than firms with high-quality products. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-022.pdf 'I... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
bigger issue is whether, as millennials get older and develop more sophisticated investing, tax and estate planning needs, firms like Wealthfront will continue to keep them as customers, or lose them to more... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
Griffin H. JamesHarvard Business School Case 210-070 A real estate developer assesses its ability to capture the benefits of investing in LEED Platinum, Vedic Design, and EnergyStar components in new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace