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21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

organizations live-blog or live-tweet their corporate meetings or events to give employees a sense of the back-and-forth in the moment. The virtual platforms that companies are relying on these days offer a similar opportunity to invite... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

01 Dec 2014
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The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

was punching above their weight," says Werker. When they did so, a small number of demographically similar countries came out on top. The Small, The Rich, The Nordic "We found a handful of smaller, richer democracies most... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Reverse Innovation

VG and Chris Trimble reveal a bold discovery with far-reaching implications in REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press; April 10, 2012;... View Details

12 Oct 2022
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When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

the experience at Airbnb provides an important lesson for other businesses with similar web platforms. Companies should be reviewing their web design and building in more anonymity. If it’s necessary to provide identifying information of... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel

July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
Case

Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry

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05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

he created Japan’s first modern bank, Dai’ichi Bank (First National Bank). Its successor, Mizuho Bank, remains one of Japan’s largest banks. Observers might consider Shibusawa as Japan’s Alexander Hamilton, whose similar pop culture... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail

25 Jan 2017
HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

young woman able to secure a job as a sports broadcaster only after applying the product. And several famous actors have endorsed skin-whitening products. Although men share this desire for fair skin and sometimes dip into similar creams... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics

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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details

12 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?

drug development—therapies that are chemically similar to established drugs—rather than on riskier, novel drugs. Critics say this tendency helps explain why therapeutic breakthroughs are increasingly less frequent. “When firms are making... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health; Pharmaceutical

14 Jun 2010
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The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

Quantifying performance and measuring results are no longer the sole domain of for-profit enterprises. Today, many nonprofit organizations also find themselves on the hot seat—not with stockholders but with donors who expect similar... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

14 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

game-changing technology, Microsoft Kinect, which transformed the field of motion-capture. Released as a gaming accessory for Microsoft’s Xbox in 2010, Kinect was leagues ahead of similar technologies such as Nintendo’s Wii and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Mar 2005
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The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

organizations face a similar set of challenging questions as they enter the twenty-first century. How should they respond to the increasing number of complex emergencies? To what extent should they cooperate with national governments and... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

April 2023
Article

Performance on Patient Experience Measures of Former Chief Medical Residents as Physician Exemplars Chosen by the Profession

By: Lucy Chen and J. Michael McWilliams

OBJECTIVE To compare care for patients of primary care physicians (PCPs) who were former chiefs with care for patients of nonchief PCPs.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Using 2010 to 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service Consumer Assessment of Healthcare... View Details

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Surveys; Health Industry

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04 Mar 2020
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How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

managers who earned higher pay didn’t perform better or work longer hours than those who earned less. The researchers found that higher-paid employees worked a similar number of days and hours, and they brought in View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

company and social impact accelerator adept at organizing campaigns through social media. “I chose these founders for their differences from one another,” Kanter says. “But then I saw how many similarities there were in their struggles... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

02 Apr 2001
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Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

and gradually. Carrots work better than sticks — especially with high-priced, hard-to-replace employees. Scenario 3: The Product Or Market Extension M&a The third category is the M&A deal created to extend a company's product line or international reach.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

people to act in ways that run counter to the best interests of their companies.—Michael C. Jensen Such cases of distorted decision making are legion in business. No doubt, you could list similar instances that you've observed—or perhaps... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

When I started eight years ago looking into what was going on in certain industries, what came out initially was this idea that it was technology, right? We all talked about Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple. But in many industries, both the disrupter and the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

02 Aug 2007
What Do You Think?

How Will Millennials Manage?

their leaders for the coming years." Generational differences related to the development of millennials comprise, according to Muder Chiba, "a global phenomenon." Amy Lynch concurred, saying, "When I talk with recruiters for international firms,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

could greatly offend them ”) A journey of ‘relational reconciliation’ By asking questions and sharing information about themselves—whatever the results—the tutors engaged in what Ramarajan and Reid describe as “relational reconciliation,” and a potential framework for... View Details