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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
but Mark Kramer and Michael Porter had a whole course focused on the issue, and the students said, “Would it really make a difference?” The problems we face are so big that even if every corporation in the world cleaned up its own act and... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
itself had become outdated. Two aspects of Baker that needed immediate attention were its lack of climate controls (uncomfortable for patrons, devastating for collections) and the inaccessibility of its stacks. Conversations took off from... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
operations took somewhat of a back seat. There were just too many new things to think about and explore, and everybody's attention was focused on "breakthrough improvements," so the mandate for operations became "just keep... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
operations. Carliss Baldwin: A bookshelf and books provide a low-tech example. A bookshelf is designed to be between 12 and 24 inches in height and have a flat bottom and sides. That is a simple architecture with three flat interfaces.... View Details
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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Mine.--Flat sheet of 800 foot level, bottom of rock shaft (underground). Illustrations of Diamond Industry from “Mining the Ground” Mss: 375 1892 M627 1 album, 24 photographs This souvenir album illustrates the diamond mining operations... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
continue to make decisions that miss opportunities to make all parties better off. We will end up with inefficient methods of creating a cleaner environment. We will continue to miss opportunities to provide more services for the poor at... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
urgency—with on-your-toes behavior that looks for opportunities and problems, that energizes colleagues, that beams a sense of "let's go." Without enough urgency, large-scale change can become an exercise in pushing a gigantic boulder View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Harmony Growing up in late-1960s Milwaukee, Bill Ahlhauser was a self-described “young radical,” a teenager who took part in civil rights marches and who dropped out of his Catholic private school in order to start View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
environmentalists, consumer activists, women's organizations, health-care advocates, and farmers—wield great influence in areas of regulation including trade, product safety, and labor. Read an excerpt from the book. "It's important to pay View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
and clearly articulating goals and priorities directs attention both to grand visions and to the details of execution, which ground visions in daily tasks. While holding other people accountable for living View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
Summing Up This month's column, in the eyes of several respondents, represents the struggle of competitive strategies based on process versus product. When seen in this light, the triumph of speed over ideas, which many see as a reality,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
ambassador to Austria. Unlike cap-and-trade, which depends on the open market to determine costs for carbon emissions, a carbon fee would be transparent and predictable, allowing companies to figure in the cost to their bottom line while... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
that the teleradiology industry views its product as a commodity—that is, two qualified radiologists are expected to read the same image in the same way. That situation provided the research team an opportunity to test three questions about outsourcing that had... View Details
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
and its efforts to establish Humanitarian Assistance for Neglected Diseases (HAND), a corporate social responsibility program focused on treatments for diseases that typically affect too small a population to warrant the attention of drug... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
can firms do to prevent it? A: When you go buy a toy at the store, the only cost that stands out is the price you pay for the toy, not the coins you put in the parking meter near the store's window. If you buy toys online, you might wind View Details
- 11 Jul 2025
- News
Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast
Utah Alumni Explore Future of Great Salt Lake The HBS Club of Utah recently got an insider’s look at the economic and ecological health of the Great Salt Lake (GSL) with a presentation by Utah’s first GSL commissioner, Brian Steed, at the headquarters of Traeger Grills... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
actually develop the new technology. The downside to this strategy is that it gives up some of the benefits of competition. The upside is that there’s a better chance a technology (radio, TV, the telephone) will be established as a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
trusts, fake foundations, regulatory loopholes, money laundering techniques, and more that make up the financial secrecy system. He then examines the motivations driving the system that generates and shelters trillions of dollars that... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
estimated likelihood that they will flee and then offering incentives to a core group of customers at the top of the churn ranking. Gupta says these traditional methods are flawed. The two steps are not set up to maximize bottom-line... View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
would lessen the incentive for buying a home. Bottom line, the deduction remained, but with one change. Instead of being unlimited, it was capped at a million dollars. As we look back at what happened with the housing market implosion, I... View Details