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- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
Gerstner (HBS MBA '65), [General Electric's] Jack Welch, and [Xerox's] Ann Mulcahy, who can manage with multiple styles, but that's rare." Lessons Learned In addition to nursing the pain of the past season, Boston's baseball fans are... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
July–August 2017 Harvard Business Review Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Navy By: Reinhardt, Forest, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—The U.S. Navy operates on the front lines of climate change. It manages tens of billions of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
less helpful if you don't know whether your options will get better or worse. It pays to look for strategic insight from contexts where uncertainty, risk, and change are the only constants. Military science, in particular, offers powerful View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
could teach the richest nation on earth about how to finance infrastructure. But, there are important lessons in multiple examples of roads, power, ports, and water projects that actually get built, thanks to successful funding models.... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
deeper, and important negotiation lessons emerge. First, you can succeed without explicitly swapping favors. After all, Rovell had nothing of substance to offer successful sports figures. But by being respectful, persistent, and doing his... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
level provides important lessons for executives, policymakers, and the groups who benefit. But such knowledge also suggests more work to be done in order to learn how global business trends, such as industry consolidation and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
outside the job that you like. "Find one thing apart from your work or family that you can do so you don't lose sight of your individuality," said Cook. She decided to take drumming lessons and is now playing gigs with a local... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
value in our business?” You Might Also Like: What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment The Critical Computer Science Principles Every... View Details
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
lessons and concepts our students learn here can have a tremendous impact on the structure and practice of education," he said. "One of my goals is to see if we can get more Harvard MBAs to take jobs in education, since the... View Details
- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
Christensen. Is it possible to capture in a few words how these five very different people contributed to the life of HBS and to describe their impact outside the School? Although these people are very different, there are nevertheless important View Details
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
Development and Demographics Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
important lessons in national strategy and political economy. Now, though, its famous chaebols may need reform, the population is aging, and relations with the North are as tense as ever. What should the country's leaders do? Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
company is deciding how it could apply the lessons of the Chinese experience, as well as the lessons of its experience across Asia, Europe, and Latin America, to India. First of all, should Lincoln Electric... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
the media if the board didn't intervene. While it was clear who we could turn to for legal advice, and we had our own business sense to apply to the strategic and tactical implications of the situation, we also had to address matters that seemed decidedly moral or... View Details
- 20 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting
lesson of economics. Legislators would also be restricted to changes in rates as opposed to tinkering through myriad preferences. Publicly reporting taxes paid is a sensible first step in restoring some sanity to these parallel universes.... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
book was actually in the works for almost three years before COVID. Having been deeply involved in the issues of virtual work and global work, I was convinced that people needed an action guide that they could use as part of a team, or even as an individual, to really... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
diversity as important capture benefits from it. While those that don’t, don’t. The researchers outline three main reasons why opinions about the value of diversity matter so much to the actual value it brings. And these may provide View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
yield lessons for the management of creative workers and for the implementation of competitive procurement mechanisms for innovation. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49445 A Welfarist Role for... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
the COVID-19 pandemic, when business emerged as the most trusted actor in society—both competent and ethical—versus government, NGOs, and the media. Here are five lessons that might carry over to today’s fraught time. People feel... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
studies of native- and foreign-born individuals living in the US between 1850 and 1940, and see what lessons all countries can draw. Contrary to popular rhetoric, these studies have found that: Immigration tends to be economically... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini