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- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
everyone else, these people have been reflecting on their lives and options. As the Wall Street Journal put it: “A small but substantial sliver of America, however, is doing better than ever using this pause in the typical 24/7 busyness... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Abstract— The IBM PC was the first digital computer platform that was open by as a matter of strategy, not necessity. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the IBM PC as a technical system and set of organization choices in light... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
Thinking Locally? The Influence of Local Communities on Organizations Authors:Christopher Marquis and Julie Battilana Abstract We develop an institutional theory of how local communities continue to matter for organizations, and why... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
necessary book, arriving not a moment too soon." Robert Reich writes "Anyone who wants to understand modern America should read this captivating book." Her 2012 The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times , explores the many ways in which the market enters our... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
social cues and other observable information to build connection with others are elusive or nonexistent. Here are elements of self-disclosure that matter to receivers: Depth: level of intimacy conveyed Breadth: amount of information... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
essentially is the gathering of the global community to discuss climate. I think all those things combined with the experience that humans are having, living in the world with changing weather patterns, with rising sea levels and changing... View Details
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
Responding to COVID-19 in early 2020 was an exercise in crisis leadership. In 2021, the pandemic feels like a painful marathon that will never end. The rapidly spreading virus forced a precipitous shift to remote work at many companies, complicating View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
work, nonprofit fellows contribute to and witness transformations in the lives of others — with lasting effects on their own lives as well. One day last August in rural Kharagpur, India, Neera Nundy (HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
again: As the very first person to enroll in an innovative new health-care program in Massachusetts, she may be leading the way to medical coverage and care for the 47 million Americans who are currently uninsured. Rhenisch’s experience suggests that the millions of... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
matters in the investment decisions made in financing a project. Could you explain this further? A: Modigliani and Miller's (M&M) "irrelevance" proposition is one of the foundations of modern finance. It states that... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
As the Bulletin celebrates its 75th birthday, this is a good time to reflect on the principal topics the magazine has covered over the years. In paging through 75 years of Bulletins, we found a remarkable amount of ink given to matters... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
faculty members hired this year, eight are people of color. We became the first academic partner to the OneTen initiative, which aims to create jobs and career paths with family-sustaining wages for one million Black individuals in the... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
miles away, I saw some kind of four-wheel drive going through the desert. And I'm dressed in all black Darth Vader attire. And I ran towards them and they stopped about a mile from me... Ultimately they drove up to me and it was a local... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
“And it stood up to the take-something-away, add-something test. Which of those building blocks could you live without? None. What would you add to make it more complete? I still haven’t come across that missing piece.” So with a... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
that does not come as easily to public company leaders, with the exception of the higher-ambition-type leaders we studied. Public company leaders have the constraints of capital market expectations for short-term quarterly earnings. They View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
to learn from it. In particular, environments where the difference between success and failure is subtle (or a matter of "luck") require that we learn not only from failures, but also from assessing the learning that comes from... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
value the respective boards claim will soon become a matter of leadership: How the integration is conceived and led. Having studied and consulted to numerous integration teams, I learned the M&A variant of Murphy's Law: Anything that... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
Can it be corrected, and does it matter if it can't? Car Trouble Every novice driver is instructed to beware of "blind spots" in which overtaking cars advance unseen. It's a lesson American carmakers apparently forgot. "For... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
Mauritius, even as its diverse peoples live under colonial rule. Weaving together the soaring hopes, fierce love, and heartbreaking tragedies of Vishnu’s proud Mauritian family, along with his country’s turbulent path to gain... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
retailers gain experience with discount vouchers, these matters may become routine. But for now, there's ample room for error, creating important risks for retailers that fall short of applicable consumer protections. Q: How does the... View Details