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27 Aug 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery

It's common in Harvard Business School classrooms to discuss the "pivot," the moment an enterprise changes direction to pursue a new strategy. On a visit to eastern Japan, MBA students talked to Masamichi Ono, CEO of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities; Retail

02 Apr 2014
What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

Things some businesses will disappear, but new ones will appear." Dennis Hopwood said that "Capitalism periodically destroys and reconfigures previous economic orders through 'creative destruction' The tide goes out and the tide... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

06 Jan 2011
What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

discovery in a legal case. The wise don't do it. But this can be a costly practice, given our faulty memories. And in the age of WikiLeaks and the Internet, when every "secret" seemingly becomes public before long, the new... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

29 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers

television. In a recent working paper, How TV Ads Trigger Online Shopping, Teixeira explores this concept, analyzing how advertisers can turn this trend to their advantage. Along with fellow researchers Jura Liaukonyte of Cornell... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Sports

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

people are a smaller number of big decisions: buying a house, buying a car, dealing with a building contractor, investing for retirement, etc. These consumption decisions tend to be made on an irregular and infrequent basis or are new in... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

15 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

thing not to do is make long-term bets. In budgeting for operations, for example, lots of effort is wasted by thinking that we can project with any accuracy the timing for getting the answers to the important questions that will define the View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

Nordisk. At United Technologies, whose products include Carrier air conditioners, Otis elevators, and Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, a recent integrated report focused on such nonfinancial metrics as lower fuel consumption and noise emissions in a View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

volunteer as poll workers. Facilitate political engagement. Look to online platforms that have simplified small contributions to political campaigns and increased the diversity of donors, as well as efforts to encourage employees and... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

activity. Today China has again emerged as a great power. Beijing is once more the capital of a multi-ethnic empire that dominates East Asia. Foreign students flock to China to live, study, and work. New infrastructure of airports,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

2005, the fate of the European Constitution is in jeopardy. Ten new accession countries have just joined the EU, with Turkey in the beginning stages of the accession process. New member states and additional... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has channeled money to innovative ideas that have transformed industries and generated View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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