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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
According to Danaher, the DBS engine “drives the company through a never-ending cycle of change and improvement: exceptional people develop outstanding plans and execute them using world-class tools to construct sustainable processes,... View Details
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Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
the executives most in need of feedback in many organizations are very senior," he says. "They may have become isolated or not realize that their direct reports have constructive advice regarding specific changes they need to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Perfecting the Project Pitch
position their projects and themselves," Steenburgh explains. "The pitches take only five minutes, and I tell them that there are no do-overs. We turn on the camera and say 'go,' and they can't stop at that point. It's all View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
York Times best-seller list for 27 weeks, he did take on another kind of business adversary, those he saw as laying waste to his beloved Sarasota and to Florida’s environment. In the novel, developers and builders, having recklessly destroyed habitat and cut corners on... View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
again, 99 percent of the time there was something wrong with it.” 3. Create informal and formal shared context—called ba in Japan—constantly in order to construct new meaning through human interactions. Takeuchi likens the Japanese... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 2011
- Working Paper
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade
The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details
Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, Kenneth Kimura, and Marion Fourcade. "How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-070, January 2011.
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
concept of elasticity. Highlights The Price is Right Price Setting and the Concept of Elasticity Elasticity as a General Concept Show Hide Details Concepts Willingness to Pay A Different Visual Representation of WTP Elasticity Featured Exercise View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
documented that networks are very common in craft industries (such as construction and book publishing), industrial districts (German textiles, Italian consumer goods, and engineering components/machines), and high tech (oil extraction,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
credibility on the screenwriter, and gives producers confidence that a movie might succeed. But should it? In fact, says Luo, the way the list is constructed is inherently flawed (from an ideal design standpoint). No one knows how many... View Details
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Reengineering Record high employment Service sector outpaces manufacturing in new job creation Influence: Low 1900 s 19 U.S. begins construction of Panama Canal Influence: High 10 1910 s 19 War Industries Board coordinates activities... View Details
- 2012
- Discussion Paper
Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades
By: Koji Nomura and Tomomichi Amano
Labor productivity growth in Singapore that has grown at a rate of over 3.0 percent per year since 1970s considerably slowed down to 0.5 percent on average per annum in the latter half of the 2000s. The purpose of this paper is to ask, first, to what extent Singapore’s... View Details
Nomura, Koji, and Tomomichi Amano. "Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades." Discussion Paper, Keio Economic Observatory, 2012.
- 2018
- Working Paper
Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg
Achieving transformative impact has been much discussed by social entrepreneurs, funders, and consultants. These discussions have focused on issues of increasing impact and scale, but often with no clear distinction between the two terms. In order to provide clarity,... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Performance Efficiency; Growth and Development; Outcome or Result; Strategy
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Tricia Gregg. "Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-062, January 2018.
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
setting a process for hazard resilience. Administered by UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, I was first to chair its private sector initiative, known as ARISE. As a retired construction CEO and WTC 9-11 survivor, I questioned why... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2013/05/how-to-negotiate-with-vcs/ar/1 2006 pub Real Estate Prices During the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression By: Nicholas, Tom, and Anna Scherbina Abstract—Using new data on market-based transactions we View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
them. However, there are clearly too many ifs, ands, or buts in this scenario, so founders would be well advised to search for financing in other places." Just as cofounding with friends and family should be accompanied by carefully View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Constructions of Gender Identity at Work” (June 1995). Robin J. Ely : Winner of the 2021 Academy of Management Learning and Education Decade Award for “Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women’s Leadership Development... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
(including “the accused” and even “bad men”) in my struggle to come up with better descriptors. They were constructive and useful criticisms. It became apparent that these debates were likely to obscure any discussion of the issue at... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Fall 2020
- Article
Christo and Jeanne‐Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa
Over the past two decades the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON) has named thirteen people as Great Negotiators. The project, directed by my colleague Jim Sebenius, has given us the opportunity to commend our honorees’ outstanding work and to learn from... View Details
Wheeler, Michael A. "Christo and Jeanne‐Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa." Negotiation Journal 36, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 471–487.