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  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The Blue-Green Revolution

Much hope and plenty of money are riding on the idea that batterypowered electric cars will help slow global warming by reducing tailpipe emissions. But when it comes to reducing the greenhouse gases produced View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

The Way You See It

manufactured a product that changed the world by dint of its pervasiveness and indispensability. But as some noted, Ford also introduced revolutionary management, workplace, and business innovations that in and of themselves transformed... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

    All Business is Local

    Today's business leaders are so obsessed with all things global and virtual that they risk neglecting the critical impact of physical place. It's a paradox of the Internet age: now that it's possible for businesses to be everywhere at once, they need to focus on... View Details

    • 21 May 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

    frustration through contempt, whether it’s a dismissive eye-roll or a sarcastic jab, Brooks says. Research by relationship scholar John M. Gottman found that couples who expressed contempt were more likely... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

      Deborah M. Winshel

      Deborah Winshel is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School.  She teaches several MBA required courses: Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD), Leadership and Corporate Accountability and the Field Immersion course (2025 in... View Details

      • 22 Feb 2022
      • News

      New Urban Order

      By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to a 2018 UN report, up from 55 percent today. That means making room for and creating the infrastructure for another 2.5 billion people to live, work,... View Details
      Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
      • 2004
      • Book

      Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America

      By: Walter A. Friedman
      This book chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated by peddlers and... View Details
      Keywords: Sales; Employees; Transformation; United States
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      • 16 Jan 2018
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

      January–February 2018 Harvard Business Review More Than a Paycheck: How to Create Good Blue-Collar Jobs in the Knowledge Economy By: Campbell, Dennis, John Case, and Bill Fotsch Abstract—Fifty years ago a good blue-collar job was with a... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • August 2019
      • Case

      Creating Accountability in Afghanistan

      By: Jonas Heese, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos, Eugene F. Soltes and Grace Liu
      By early 2019, the United States had contributed $132 billion to the Afghan reconstruction. John Sopko, in his role as the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR), was in charge of providing accountability for U.S. aid funding. Sopko’s oversight... View Details
      Keywords: Auditing; Fraud; Accountability; Crime and Corruption; Law Enforcement; Governance; Infrastructure; Information; Networks; Strategy; Afghanistan
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      • 13 Aug 2017
      • News

      Business Book of the Year 2017 — the longlist

      • 01 Jun 2017
      • News

      Life in Lockdown

      intense and very structured: take a concept idea and get to a real prototype for customers to interact with by the end of the day,” Sapone says. On Wednesday of that first Startup Lockdown, the group worked on a concept then called... View Details
      Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill
      • 2018
      • Book

      Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level

      By: James K. Sebenius, R. Nicholas Burns and Robert H. Mnookin (with a forward by Henry A. Kissinger)
      As professors and practitioners with careers devoted to negotiation, we are often asked “Who are the world’s best negotiators? What makes them effective?” Inevitably Henry Kissinger’s name comes up as an elite, if controversial, negotiator from whom we can learn a... View Details
      Keywords: History; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Personal Development and Career; Negotiation Style; United States
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      • 07 Jul 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: July 7, 2015

      product developers is a mindset. Western designers, who usually create products by following time-tested methods, struggle to overcome the constraints and leverage the freedoms of emerging markets. They tend to fall into common mental... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 13 Jun 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

      May 2017 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We build on the analysis in Akcigit, Grigsby, and Nicholas (2017) View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Web

      Faculty & Research

      unparalleled possibility for humanity, and it's undergoing a revolution. A wave of companies led by gutsy entrepreneurs is unlocking opportunities that fire the imagination and open up new business models. No, it's not hotels on Mars or... View Details
      • 13 Jan 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: January 13

      http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138794313/ January 2015 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Strategic Disclosure: The Case of Business School Rankings By: Luca, Michael, and Jonathan Smith Abstract—We empirically analyze disclosure decisions made... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Web

      HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

      Leaders by Avery Forman 08 Nov 2024 | HBS Case How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis by John Macomber 08 Nov 2024 | Op-Ed Have You Had Enough? View Details

        Birth of a Salesman

        This book chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated by peddlers and... View Details

        • 11 Sep 2012
        • First Look

        First Look: September 11

        they made by history, or do they make it? In Indispensable, Harvard Business School professor Gautam Mukunda offers an enticingly fresh look at how and when individual leaders really can make a difference. View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 01 Sep 2016
        • News

        Code name: Miesiąc

        From the book Kryptonim “Wasale,” by Łukasz Kamiński From the book Kryptonim “Wasale,” by Łukasz Kamiński Waldemar Maj (MBA 1996) shivered in the dark Warsaw alley and wedged his body further into a crevice... View Details
        Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki