Tragedy Of The Commons - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 May 2013
Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

the debate and the facts underlying the debate and the political choices and compromises that we can make," said Porter. While many people... View Details

Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette

28 Jul 2015
Blog Post

Recruiting in the U.S. for International Students: 101

Starting business school meant a lot of “first time” experiences to me: First time living abroad (not to mention moving out of my parents’ house), first time going to school in English, and, View Details

Keywords: All Industries

27 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

of people are affected by this topic." An estimated 50 percent of multinationals use English as their common company language, Neeley says. Countless more have View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

advantage of the inner city, though, comes not through the income of residents but rather what he called "income density"—a high... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

in health and education, including founding Koç University in 1992, now one of the most prestigious universities in the country. Silverthorne: In what ways is Turkish business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap

looked at the label of a common immune support product, one of those sugar-y Vitamin C packets, and realized that this trusted product we had... View Details

26 Aug 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

Thanks to the Internet, entrepreneurs are no longer confined to a local geography when building a new business—the world can be their market from day one. But building a startup as a global business requires managers with skills and... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education

Article

Sales Methodologies and Selling

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Sales methodologies play an important role. A common approach in a sales force allows for consistency, dissemination of best practices, acceleration of learning, and it helps the firm to scale because management then has common metrics to monitor and evaluate. However,... View Details

Keywords: Methodology; Sales; Analysis

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07 Oct 2020
News

Bringing Business Ethics Back to Friedman’s Call to Purpose

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

a few big hospitals or financial services firms. Think of it as a private LinkedIn group or a Google circle. “Another analogue is a weather map,” says Bonaparte. “We’re allowing you to get ahead of View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

03 Oct 2016
Blog Post

What I Learned in the Peek Weekend STEM Cohort

individuals from all over the country (and even internationally). The greatest thing we had in common was a desire to connect and learn about other’s lives. We have a Facebook... View Details

23 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

companies within most industries adopted an increasingly similar set of sustainability practices. This study by by Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim examines the interplay between View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology

22 Nov 2023
Video

Israel and Gaza: How did we get here? Where are we heading?

Web

Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship

B2C Marketing Compilation of posts on B2C marketing , Tom Eisenmann Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us , Duncan Watts Building Brand Different: Escaping the... View Details

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

"is the extreme form of change that management teams within companies have to go through. The degree to which that change is hard is tied to how well you are doing when... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

erroneously identified as the common thread of a firm's business. In reality, a given type of customer will frequently have a range View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

executives in his classroom. While they come from countries around the world and from a variety of industries, they share a common characteristic. "They're at a point... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

02 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

It’s a sticky but common dilemma for managers: A valued employee finds out that a coworker earns more, gets upset, and demands a raise. If gender or race figure into the wage gap, tensions can escalate fast.... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

January 2014 (Revised February 2014)
Teaching Note

Rana Plaza: Workplace Safety In Bangladesh (A) and (B)

By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez

On April 24, 2013 the Rana Plaza factory building collapsed in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Over 1,100 people were killed in the worst industrial accident since the Union Carbide plant gas leak in Bhopal, India. Most of the victims worked for garment factories,... View Details

Keywords: Safety; Multinational Firms and Management; Labor Unions; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Working Conditions; Corporate Accountability; Crisis Management; Manufacturing Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Bangladesh