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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
business infrastructure to make biotech ventures thrive — was pretty much set as of 1982. So the states that jumped on the biotech bandwagon in the 1990s or 2000s were too late. You see a lot of the same mistakes happening now in the... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
the new top band leaves, because they have optionality. And so we do have this quicksand that we're sucking ourselves down into, for very seemingly logical reasons, that creates a system failure and continues to suck down the labor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
much a start-up has to fail in order to be successful. It took us several iterations to get there. I was also surprised at the degree to which the private sector accepts or even values start-up failure compared with the nonprofit sector,... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
With many of today's entrepreneurs starting ventures simultaneously in several countries, it is critical for the global businessperson to understand the financial and business environments in different countries and to accurately assess... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions Authors:Lisa L. Shu and Max Bazerman Publication:In Oxford Handbook of Business and the Environment. Oxford University Press, in press Abstract We explore interventions at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2014
- What Do You Think?
Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?
there was a sense that new information technology could exact a heavy toll on marketers not able to raise their standards and performance. Gerald Nanninga commented that if marketers have a great story to tell, "the Internet is your friend. If you don't, then... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
illegal, gaming of society’s rules that led to Enron’s collapse. The answer points to three persis-tent tasks of corporate governance: the avoidance of perverse incentives for executives, the strengthening of board oversight, and the reinforcement of ethical discipline... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
"dodge" a question they would rather not answer by answering a different question? Two experiments demonstrated conversational blindness—listeners' surprising failure to notice such dodges—and explored the interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
Todd Rogers and Michael I. Norton Publication: Harvard Business Review 88, no. 11 (November 2010) Abstract This article presents a dual interview based on a research study we conducted. Our study found that an artful dodger of questions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
Business School Press) Risk taking is an integral building block in developing organizational learning. IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr., understood the value of creating an environment in which errors -- and even View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- Web
VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Involved Videos Books Value-Based Health Care Delivery – Measuring and Managing Costs The Value-Based Health Care Delivery (VBHCD) initiative, led by Harvard Business School professors Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan, engages with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
Doriot HBS ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION As a young man, Georges Doriot dreamed of running a factory, a rare aspirational failure in his long, storied career. Rather, he ended up teaching thousands of HBS students how they should run... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
cofounder of Intuit, the world leader in software for personal and small business finance. After studying economics and math at the University of Southern California and earning his MBA, he learned the ropes of product marketing at... View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader
you consider launching a SPAC, a special purpose acquisition company? When I left the U.S. Army after a 22-year career, I launched Xtreme Solutions, an information technology services provider. I knew I could start a successful business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
proponents of such ideas have been advisers to both David Cameron in the U.K. (Richard Thaler) and Barack Obama in the US (Cass Sunstein). Behavioral economists advise regulators that, when in doubt, make sure that business is transparent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
In the aftermath of such highly public and grossly damaging business debacles as Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom, much attention and plenty of criticism have been directed at those companies' corporate boards. Traditionally, board... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
the author Sean Silverthorne is editor-in-chief of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStock Photo] Related Reading Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness How a New Leader Broke Through a Culture of Accuse, Blame, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Business School Case 315-130 HealthCare.gov: The Crash and the Fix (B) The (B) case provides the follow on strategy and processes utilized to get the site up and running after the initial failures of... View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
When business executives create innovative products or services, they often look to impress their customers by delivering an experience more meaningful, more delightful, than possibly expected. A true "wow!" moment. And Harvard View Details
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
stance on Japan's industrial support model of protectionism, cooperative R&D, and relaxed antitrust was almost entirely negative. "What we found [in our research] was that the government model was applied much more vigorously in the View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer