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- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
Why in the world would anyone take the time to write complicated software programs for free? It's a good question, one that has piqued the curiosity of a number of economists, who wonder what benefits, if any, lie behind the burgeoning... View Details
- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
your phone. Whether you write out your thoughts in a journal or talk with a trusted mentor, consider the current state of your organization and ask: What are our capability gaps? Does our current team reflect our current and future... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
- Portrait Project
Wabantu Hlophe
games. My sanctuary was a realm where I could defy circumstance, write my own narrative, and one day give voice to stories that my countrymen could not. Gaming planted a seed of idealism within me—a belief that even in the face of... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 17 Jan 2023
- Book
Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them
good companies commit criminal violations. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. “Executives at large companies often have limited knowledge of the risk that their companies can face for potential wrongdoing. ” Lane Lambert: What inspired you to View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 04 Feb 2022
- Book
Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries
Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
intellectual property, or getting Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland to come to terms. By spending intensive time with these great negotiators, writing cases on their most challenging deals, and relentlessly probing their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
opportunities missed. Why I Don't Want to Own General Motors June 1, 2009 - Harvard Business Publishing Rosabeth Moss Kanter comments on the bankruptcy of GM, calling it a "dangerous precedent." The Past and Future of General Motors April 9, 2009 - Huffington... View Details
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
experience. What is the source of their commitment to building a HCHP company and how do they describe the transformation journey they are leading? We are analyzing the data from these interviews and plan to write a book tentatively... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
Director of Career Development Programs at Harvard Business School. "Without it we cannot grow, change, and—eventually—live more fully in a larger world," Butler writes in his new book, Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster
next to his became social currency across Canada. It's easy to write off these fads as simple stunts of digital narcissism, but they matter to marketing because they carry incidental meaning. It was not lost on Ford's reelection team that... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton
- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
write about a personal past experience that fit one of five categories: unethical, ethical, positive, negative, or neutral. The participants mostly wrote about commonplace actions (cheating on an exam or padding an expense report, for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Side Effects: The Case of Propecia
managers" in families, she said. The Doctor Is In And if a balding man could be persuaded to pay a visit to the physician's office, would the doctor necessarily write a prescription? Doctors are comfortable treating medical... View Details
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
Q: You write that an OSM can serve in effect as the CEO's chief of staff. In a typical organization, how many staff would be in an OSM, what are their career backgrounds and/or training that make them best for this function, and what are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration
techniques could have a significant effect. Specifically, participants who had received training were asked to write a response to an essay written by a person they disagreed with on issues such as policing and minority suspects or sexual... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Web
Working Groups Update | About
Working Groups Update Published February 8, 2024 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email With the spring semester underway, I am writing to provide more information about the working groups we announced late last year.... View Details
- 28 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Making an Impact on the Media Industry with my MBA
writing our own stories. I am learning from Professor Gino again this semester in the new RC class, Inclusive Leadership, which she is teaching with Professor Frances Frei. Gaining such a range of academic experiences is what has made HBS... View Details
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
policy that reflects Americans' nuanced, evolving sense of fairness. They are a part of what makes our economy, and our society, work. And that knowledge might even make writing that check on April 15th a bit less painful. This article... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
of themselves. "I wish a lot of the HBS students were more aware of how their behavior impacts others." he says. The Power Of Vulnerability Flying without a Net is not a quantitative book, a fact that DeLong initially worried about before View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Turkish Delight
“There are clear benefits to having what you might call a conventional career — for example, if I had stayed at Bain,” Byford adds. “You know your place in the world. It’s a very insecure thing to suddenly show up in Turkey and say, ‘I’m going to View Details