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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
throughout the ranks; everybody in the organization must understand what they're doing and why they're doing it. In Managers as Teachers, we use a couple of examples — Alcoa and Toyota — to show how to disseminate the lessons of the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
natives. The paper then turns to immigration's impact for the public finances of host countries. The final section considers emerging topics in the study of immigration. The survey particularly emphasizes the recent experiences of Northern Europe and Scandinavia and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
differentiated capabilities. Simply replicating strategies that were successful at home is likely to be insufficient in the United States. The real lesson of this experience is that investing directly in corporate assets is a very... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
thought there was potentially something generalizeable in Oprah's journey. I've always been interested in individuals whose experience summarizes large lessons for our moment. So, here, I was interested in what is it about Oprah that... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
sustained, provides an answer. And what is there about Murdoch himself that leaves him such a scorned and isolated figure in the midst of all this? Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, an authority on innovation and change, adds her insights. Finally, what are some View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
simply begin with the direction you want to go and take a small step. Thinking alone will never change your life-you must ACT. Then evaluate the lessons you learn from that first step, build on them, and take another step in your desired... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
Impossible, I draw out scores of actionable lessons using behind-the-scenes stories of fascinating real-life negotiations, including drafting the U.S. Constitution, resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis, ending bitter disputes in the NFL and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
showcase several areas of theoretical development that might benefit from revisiting the taboo. I conclude by reviewing key practical implications of such a shift for our profession and by arguing that organizational scholarship could gain a great deal from relaxing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
need to determine which of the lessons learned from Haier's international operations should be implemented in China and which skills learned at home could best be applied abroad. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
lessons and concepts our students learn here can have a tremendous impact on the structure and practice of education," he said. "One of my goals is to see if we can get more Harvard MBAs to take jobs in education, since the... View Details
- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
Christensen. Is it possible to capture in a few words how these five very different people contributed to the life of HBS and to describe their impact outside the School? Although these people are very different, there are nevertheless important View Details
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
Development and Demographics Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at... View Details
- 22 Feb 2010
- Op-Ed
Tragedy at Toyota: How Not to Lead in Crisis
recommendations based on my recent book, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis. 1: Face reality, starting with yourself. Faced with multiple reports of accidents from sticking accelerators, Toyota blamed the problems on stuck floor mats and... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
Enterprises, Inc., named his mother—the owner of a beauty parlor—as one of his earliest entrepreneurial influences. By tidying the shop and running errands for her, McMillan absorbed a simple lesson that continues to serve him well as a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
important lessons in national strategy and political economy. Now, though, its famous chaebols may need reform, the population is aging, and relations with the North are as tense as ever. What should the country's leaders do? Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
company is deciding how it could apply the lessons of the Chinese experience, as well as the lessons of its experience across Asia, Europe, and Latin America, to India. First of all, should Lincoln Electric... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
the discrepancies in funding would better show what succeeds where and why. But the overall lesson for artists and entrepreneurs remains a valuable one—their commitment to funding, whether cleverly accomplished through crowdfunding or... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
that suggests to me is that the members of an alliance were able to learn something from their past experience and contribute that to achieve a better outcome," he says. That lesson could be applied more broadly to other industries,... View Details
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
into their negotiating approach. It's a lesson many companies have learned the hard way. And influence on negotiations need not be driven by an informal, underlying power structure, as U.S. Stone Container Corporation learned. While... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
the COVID-19 pandemic, when business emerged as the most trusted actor in society—both competent and ethical—versus government, NGOs, and the media. Here are five lessons that might carry over to today’s fraught time. People feel... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne