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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
sales, marketing, and communication had made its yogurt a hit with consumers, and its entrepreneurial and innovative culture made it popular with its employees. But by 2012, major food companies, such as General Mills and Groupe Danone,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
and managed as investment accounts with the goal of accumulating the largest possible pot of savings. Communication with savers is framed entirely in terms of assets and returns. Ask a saver what his 401(k) is worth and you'll hear a cash... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
original response, no one can decide in advance what that response should be. So the role of a leader of innovation is not to set a vision and motivate others to follow it. It's to create a community that is willing and able to innovate.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
and geographies are communicating to their stakeholders their initiatives and performance within the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) domains. Disclosure of non-financial reports has generated heated debates about whether such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
economic distress of the communities in which they produce and sell? It doesn't have to be this way, say Porter, of Harvard Business School, and Kramer, the managing director of the social impact advisory firm FSG. Companies could bring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
Ontological Leadership Course. 4. Provide participants an opportunity to create a community of scholars, educators, and practitioners to advance the Ontological Leadership Project. 5. Inquire into the next research frontier for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
challenge that I’ve faced over the last 25 years with respect to building my organization because it speaks to how we message, how we communicate what we do within the context of a more accurate view around problem-solution, but also how... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
control room, located in a converted shipping container The hardware reset was successful, and Oscilla recently deployed a version of Triton off the coast of Hawaii. (Known as Triton-C, this iteration should someday be capable of powering small View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
core of this organization is our membership, including people like Rye: leaders in business and their own communities who are committed to contributing their mindshare to solving the problems facing our democracy. I think there’s a role... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
multiple stakeholders. What more should HBS do? Deans and recruiters told Datar and Garvin that MBAs in general need more soft skills, such as self-awareness and the capacity for introspection and empathy. They also found MBAs lacking in critical and creative thinking,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
government leaders grapple with changing conditions. “To be fair, a lot of this comes from the fact that policymakers don’t actually know [exactly how to respond],” Glaeser says. “It’s not like the medical community coalesced on this.” As... View Details
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
for years, extending back to Adam Smith’s “invisible hand.” While many members of the management community generally accept the notion of free markets and trade, those unable to compete with imports are sometimes quite willing to request... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
four primary trends driving the development of innovative solutions: The first is the world's population growth, forecast by the United Nations to reach roughly 9 billion by 2050, and the mass migration from the countryside and agrarian View Details
- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
research community lately. Last year, a Boston University cancer researcher was found to have fabricated data in two published papers that were later retracted. Also in 2011, a well-known Harvard University psychology professor was found... View Details
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
unmarketable yet invaluable intangibles such as social tolerance, personal responsibility, and respect for the rule of law. Each is a unique community of scholars in which lives as well as minds are molded. Pure profit-based competition... View Details
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
people, society and government is required." David Cawlfield, citing his experiences in what he believes is a high-identity organization, credits this to "Consistent discussion and communication of 'corporate values' (that) help... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
challenged by what HBS professor Clayton Christensen has called "disruptive technology." In the United States, for example, there is a growing number of Electronic Communications Networks (ECNs)—competitive electronic national... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
missing an opportunity to turn a good business into a great one. Q: You emphasize that it's more important than ever for managers to communicate business strategy and performance goals effectively to employees. Why so? A: This is a much... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
communications intensive and relationship dependent that they did not function well when operating units were separated by substantial time and distance barriers. In addition, language and cultural barriers made it difficult to integrate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details