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19 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

Mercadona's focus on long-term profitability is clear in how the company makes decisions. "Mercadona does not even consider short-term profit maximization. The company always considers the impact of a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

solitary pursuit of writing, not jockeying for advancement in a business organization. Even so, according to HBS professor Teresa Amabile, a good look at Irving's life to date reveals fascinating lessons on how to think about the notion... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The "Skype" of broadband, offering free Internet service. On an April morning known as "Super... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

Teradyne and HP forced their organizations to focus on these new technologies. The CEOs of both companies got involved, creating separate, financially autonomous divisions for the projects to ensure that the technological breakthroughs... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

to their ethical conduct. Scholarly attention to ethics and values does indeed have an impact on business leaders' self-conception and resulting behavior. Q: Corporate social responsibility sounds like something we should all want. Yet... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

29 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

smaller) communities and collaborations of inventors. Fleming and his colleagues found, for example, that at the end of the last decade, half of the patented inventors in Silicon Valley could trace an indirect collaborative path to one... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

"quarter") exercised no influence on his investment strategy. He believed that conservative funding was called for in an industry in the midst of technological transformation. Therefore, he always... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

reviews, should never be conducted by one person alone. “Think about it. Every major corporation does not have the CEO interviewed alone. There’s always a corporate communications person and others in the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 25

alongside those offering a larger number of candidates, even though the existing literature on network effects suggests that the latter should always dominate the former. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 May 2016
Op-Ed

World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

public advisories, and it is regarded as more of a policeman than a partner by national governments. Its many dedicated scientists produce useful reports on the global state of public health, but the WHO's bureaucracy impedes the decisive... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Health

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

choice is a complex issue, and that some conventional wisdom isn't always wise. For example, there are perfectly good reasons why a conservative long-term investor would hold more stocks and bonds than cash instruments such as... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

28 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 28

economic trends a central economic activity and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

Many tools for rating the performance of mutual funds and their managers rely heavily on past performance. But what about the future? Now comes a system devised by Randolph B. Cohen and Joshua D. Coval of Harvard Business School, and... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

more effectively design and measure complex projects and organizations. Sean Silverthorne: What drew you to the NASA/JPL Mars program as potential case material? Alan MacCormack: First, it was an ideal context in which to explore one of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

the largest number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 outside of China, but new cases have decreased sharply since then. As of May 25, only 16 new daily cases were reported, bringing the cumulative total number of cases to 11,206 and 267 deaths. This represents View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The three of us thought that in the context of the economic and social problems at the turn of the 21st century—not COVID-19 but plenty of other concerns—it would be interesting to assemble groups of outstanding business leaders to learn what future problems they... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

On September 12, 1980, the military launched a coup on the government in Turkey. For many executives, such instability is the worst nightmare of doing business in a developing country. But for Turkish... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

horizontally across boundaries, without always having to rely on centralized command and a big corporate staff to make sure that the firm is integrated. Q: You point to British Petroleum as an example of a... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

School.Silverthorne: Obviously, government decisions affect businesses in many ways. What are the implications for business leaders in the U.S. of the government continuing to make decisions based on the mistakes that you discuss in... View Details

Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman

13 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw

The CrowdStrike tech security outage in July revealed the true interdependence—and fragility—of global computer systems. Following several high-profile data breaches, policymakers are calling on businesses to do more to fix code... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Information Technology; Computer; Web Services

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