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- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
dropped straight to the bottom line," Mukunda says. "Mining is a fixed-cost industry." The situation made international headlines, and a quick web search will reveal what Carroll actually decided to do. But when he assigns... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
of companies. "It comes back to innovation," she adds. "You can't stay the same because if you stay the same it's like you're going backwards companies continually need to bring in new thinking. If not, someone else will come in and take over." Given that Francesco... View Details
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
going to look at the unique demands in that workplace and how to make it work in your life. We had several of what I'll call "tools" workshops as well. We had a wonderful session with … the library staff to help participants conduct View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
product-market positions. In the late 1980s, the search for more dynamic, adaptive, and sustainable advantage led many to supplement their analysis of external competition with an internal-competency assessment. They recognized that... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
the search for best practices. The strategy part is very much more difficult, but it creates the need for choice with the associated uncertainty and anxiety. Strategy requires saying no, rather than empowering everyone in the organization... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
search firms provide a slate of well-qualified candidates, who on paper look superior to internal candidates whose strengths and weaknesses are already well-known. But the board doesn’t really know them or understand how well they mesh... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
the public record—articles, speeches, and views from those with direct knowledge—that the CEO was concerned with developing a people-centric, high commitment culture. In effect, we searched for CEOs who were leading high commitment, high... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
future problems and opportunities for innovation. The third is a tendency to fail to probe the root causes of success. Whereas post-mortems after failure are becoming a norm in many organizations, such soul searching rarely occurs after... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?
Summing Up There is no shortage of explanations for what seems to be a current bull market in writings about leadership, according to respondents to this column. Charles Cullinane attributes it to the economic and national insecurity that "has the free world View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
worldwide. So we have a strong commitment to ideas as the place where the educational experience begins. That's why we make the investment we do. It certainly is far more than any other business school. Q: While Harvard University View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
quality products when they use a tying strategy. In this paper, we empirically explore this question by examining Google’s decision to tie its new reviews product to its search engine. We experimentally vary the content displayed above... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
mid-1970s, young Dal ended up with a backside full of splinters. His penance, as he searched for a pair of tweezers with needle points to pull out the painful shards of wood, was to discover the difficulty of finding any kind of suitably... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
Abstract Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society and often posing irreconcilable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
networks," says Piskorski. They can address some basic search failures: "It's hard to know what my friends are up to, but online I can catch up with them quickly." But they can also fix bigger View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
members source knowledge on behalf of the team. This specialized knowledge-sourcing approach lowers search costs. The other approach has most or all team members engaging in knowledge sourcing. This broad approach means that more team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
brick-and-mortar retail, specifically in the form of large-scale shopping malls, is still the dominant venue for consumer purchases in the developed world. Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data This study proposes a practical and... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
content, psychometric validity, and relationships to outcomes of interest. Data extraction. We identified relevant articles using the search terms team, teamwork, work groups, or collaboration, in combination with survey or questionnaire.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
"and" rather than the "either/or." Indeed, financial demands are unrelenting, but the world is turning to corporations to do more than meet financial demands. Why? Largely because people see the tremendous capabilities that companies have. How can... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
investment banks, and consultancies that once shunned the practice and from the increasing influence of proxy advisory firms. But it was the many institutional investors who eventually embraced activists in their search for better returns... View Details