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- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
else is there? And that feeling of 'what else is there' is the calling—is the calling trying to say to you [that] there is more than this. There is more than this. "It was just a great message. And the students View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
the market can develop. You've got to make sure you can get these guys to an exit, first, second or third," Mullen said. "And a good exit," added Sahlman. "I feel like it's a pretty natural process to find several in a... View Details
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted, investors covered their eyes,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
that make the workplace feel ”just a tiny bit more psychologically safe: I don’t know. I need help. I made a mistake. I’m sorry.” How often have you heard your boss utter those words in the recent past? If... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
In recent conversations with US executives doing business in China, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Roy Y.J. Chua heard about a new trend. In an East Asian version of cutting deals on the golf course, Chinese executives often... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
get a call from a consultant who knows all about your impending bid and offers to help. The clear message is you are not going to win unless you use me." “The thing that struck me is how little information there is on corruption because no one wants to talk about it”... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
discussed publicly, for two reasons. First, managers feared that being honest would hurt their careers or even endanger their jobs. Second, they were afraid that Camp and her senior team would feel so hurt and defensive that the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
The initial impetus was when I was doing my early field research on founders and heard complaints from them about their inability to increase their compensation compared to their non-founder colleagues, which I found surprising. For... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
begin this inquiry? Michael Porter: There was a clear feeling at Harvard Business School that something different was happening in the US economy—this was not just a deep recession caused by the housing mortgage crisis and so forth. The... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
the school opened. He got on the agenda of every single major church in the area on Sunday to explain what this was about. We organized meetings at key community organizations. We heard people out. The same was true with the teachers’... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
hours of hard work flow into a piece that none of them has ever heard before and will never hear again. Like jazz, communication is improvisational. Each time you communicate with another person, you're playing it by ear. You may have... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 16 Dec 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Marrying Distance and Classroom Education
would think about taking advantage of both. You heard in the workshop some of the things that are advantageous to the technology side besides the obvious advantages of asynchronicity and not having to travel. Mediated work, for example.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Huang I like to switch up what I’m reading—so I often alternate between fiction and non-fiction, different time periods and settings, and books that I’m reading for the first time read versus books that I’ve re-read dozens of times. I View Details
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
recently about the arguments that Boston is less networked. If you travel to Kendall Square, there are so many buildings going up, the interaction, the collaborative atmosphere. You just can't walk through [Kendall Square] without feeling... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
they would feel compelled to execute against. Q: Another aspect of collaboration that Robertson discusses in the case is interpersonal harmony. Why was it complicated to get along? A: In business we have the notion that we can create a... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
fascinating exchange where Kapur tells you what it was like to work at an ad firm in India, which in the 1960s and even beyond was still feeling the vestiges of the British Raj. He says, “ if you spoke English with a slight ‘ho-ho’ accent... View Details
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
consequences of corporate indifference, individual end consumers are striking out on their own to blaze new trails in a new approach that we call the individuation of consumption. They want to be treated as individuals, not as anonymous transactions in the ledgers of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace