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- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
Aryans invading India from the north and conquering the darker-skinned native Dravidians. The first fairness cream, Afghan Snow, hit the Indian market in 1919, although home remedies had been passed down even earlier from generation to... View Details
- 02 Aug 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?
rather than resources.” Managers don’t want to listen to those ‘below’ them, he wrote. Stephen Achilles added that “leadership does not understand the strengths and interests of their workers.” A number of remedies were suggested. David... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage
willing to go above and beyond in their roles. All this while inflation spirals. Abdelal, who is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at HBS, and DeLong make the case that the remedy is understanding the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
give them legitimacy in the eyes of the public—from their actual work activities. Our speculations about a genuine professionalization of management as a remedy for the crisis of legitimacy now facing American business may strike some as... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
for a large publicly traded company (although much faster prepackaged or prenegotiated bankruptcies are sometimes possible) —creditors are temporarily held at bay, and are not able to exercise remedies normally available to them when... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
wound ointment for thousands of years. The United States Patent and Trademark Office revoked the patent in 1997. The case illustrates the issue of "bio-piracy," wherein patentees charge rents for the use of herbal remedies that... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
of the self-created time management systems they put together as young adults." Suggested remedies were varied, with responsibilities for their implementation in the hands of both individuals and the organizations for which they... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
Bullard suggested that "Ruthless realism is, itself, pathological . The professional pilot denies a crash is inevitable until a second before impact, and that ability to believe one can save the ship is critical to the attitude of actually saving it." View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
economic downturn. The case is complemented by a video (HBS No. 810-704) with co-founder commentary and extensive live footage of Blue Man performances and the Blue School. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810108-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Writing the Case for Public School Reform
The state of public education in the United States is a perennial hot-button topic, with rhetoric often outpacing any real sense of progress. The Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a 2003 joint initiative of HBS and Harvard's Graduate School of Education,... View Details
- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
mergers and acquisitions fail to achieve their objectives, suggesting possible remedies to this "flawed process." Kathryn Yates, for example, cited three primary reasons for M&A failure: "1) Forgetting to plan for the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
further research on psychological safety in both sectors, separately and together. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50683 forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of Workplace Discrimination Organizational Remedies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
to remedy the information-sharing glut that is slowing health care innovation and harming patient care, according to panelists discussing "Digital Health: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation" at the Digital Initiative Summit held... View Details
- 11 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers
don't want to be there. This will do nothing to remedy the productivity and collaboration problem Mayer says she's facing in the ultra-competitive high tech industry. My research suggests that people who feel conflicted about their... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
taking price surveys, organizing product boycotts, and providing consumer remediation services. “The start of properly regulating the economy is to understand how regulation is made, and this means forgetting what we thought we knew about... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
problem: Board members are time-pressured part-timers who lack the knowledge they need to successfully oversee the companies they serve. The remedy isn't necessarily in staggered terms or requirements for outside directors—rather it's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
prescribe remedies vastly reduced the appeal of Business Cycles. None of this was accidental. During the years when Keynes was writing The General Theory, he tried out his ideas again and again within his elite circle of young economists... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
should be done? Some thought that, quite simply, bad things happen on occasion and that if governments didn't get in the way too much, things would sort themselves out. Others were worried that governments would intervene with populist View Details
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
labor, with Walmart being a prime example. Three remedies are often proposed for the problem: 1. Legislated increases in the minimum wage 2. New laws that support unions and raise their bargaining power 3. Government-financed education... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
figures, Joe Seydl cited another more basic remedy for inequality. In his words, "The key to improving mobility is to improve educational experiences at the earliest age possible." This debate gives us something to think about:... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett