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- 05 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements
Medicare to negotiate lower prices with drug companies and allow Americans to buy drugs at more affordable prices. The facts: Some of the information in the claim was true. The prices of brand-name drugs have more than doubled during that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
analyze in advance exactly what would happen the day the article came out and what precisely he should do to channel fear, anger, and confusion into a determination to act fast and succeed. The day came. A full-blown crisis was created.... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
all. Everyone would act as a free agent in a winner-take-all contest. Opportunism and selfish political behavior would be rampant. A great deal of frantic effort would be expended—but little of it would be the kind of coordinated effort... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
of the modern world's greatest Opportunists. Also of this genre, although somewhat lesser known, is Jeffrey Skilling, the Enron CEO who sold off tens of millions of dollars of stock just before Enron filed for bankruptcy, claiming he had... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
dismissals have increased, and settlements in recent years have declined,” conclude the authors of a new research paper. “Our study asks why.” The number of lawsuits specifically about Rule 10b-5, the antifraud regulation created under the Securities Exchange View Details
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
repay, which means they're going to have a claim on our output. And someday, we're probably going to have to run a current account surplus, where we're producing more than we spend, and we're shipping off the rest (the surplus) to our... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
between bundling and indirect network effects, we find that they act as substitute strategies, with a lower relative effectiveness for bundling when network effects are stronger. 2013 pub From Social Control to Financial Economics: The... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
continued to stay at levels 20 percent to 30 percent below last year through August. The lower levels are evidence that this isn’t a typical recession, the authors report. The historical relationship between unemployment claims and... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
earner for him and for YouTube. Jones complained that his freedom of speech was being suppressed. The move was prompted by complaints from the public but also by criticism from YouTube employees. But YouTube continued to feature “borderline” material containing clearly... View Details
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
our ability to act that delays decisions. It is our ability to learn ” Edward advanced the notion that "too many (leaders) are blissfully out of touch with what really goes on in business maybe because they are slaves to the P&L... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
labels 'international' and 'domestic' no longer apply." His globalization program, often summarized under the tagline "think global, act global," had included an unprecedented amount of standardization. By the time he... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
somewhere between "sometimes" and "frequently," meaning they assumed that they engaged in bad behavior less than the partner who did it "frequently"-yet they still chose the other partner. "I thought this was a View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
possibility that " managers are not trained for it." Dianne Jacobs cited the possibility that persisting assumptions borne out of success serve as "roadblocks to act on needed change" (proposed by those who engage in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
Allegations and Government Contracting, forthcoming in the Journal of Accounting Research, was co-written by Heese and HBS Assistant Professor Gerardo Perez Cavazos. Empowering whistleblowers The False View Details
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
would also require an enormous investment by incumbent players to upgrade their existing production capacity.4 Industry leader Goodyear acted quickly to deflate radials' progress, and in 1967 introduced the belted bias tire, an extension... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
implicated in recent acts of corporate malfeasance—could have become so depraved, this is probably the wrong question. Given that human nature does not change much from age to age, the real issue is the effectiveness of the constraints... View Details
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
searched for new brand stories to tell that better reflected the new cultural environment. Consumers largely agreed with this decision, with 77 percent claiming that brands in their marketing communications should not ignore or turn a... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
in history. Most firms act as if false negatives don't exist because they don't have processes for managing them. In their own industries, many companies might have missed similar opportunities. Although... View Details