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- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
Let's face it: in most cases, the stock market knows what it's doing. With millions of people performing their homework and investing money in stocks they hope will pay off, it's hard for any one person to beat the market in a big way.... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
tech-oriented, two-year college degree. “P-TECH is a great example of what I call ‘thinking outside the building,’” says Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wired and Black: Focus on Careers
much an alternative as investment banks has led to students asking more fundamental questions." Thomas said students are finding new ways to use their expertise as the workplace changes and the definition of business expands.... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 17 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities
"The fans don't realize the weaknesses existed even during the good times," he told an audience of Harvard Business School students and faculty members on Tuesday. "The team was never as good as it was made out to be in an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
book excerpt Forecasters From the introduction of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's Economic Forecasters By Walter A. Friedman This is a book about a group of entrepreneurs who, like Evangeline Adams, identified a business... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
strong history of commercial development. Pictured is the Bund in Shanghai, the city's financial district along the Huangpu River, in 1899. "After people read this book, they should not be negative on China—we're not negative on China," says Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter
most popular stories during the quarter. At the Top of the Trending List How Companies Benefit When Employees Work RemotelyWork from anywhere policies have advanced from a rare occurrence for companies to a strategic advantage. (31,082 visits) Other View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
What do Stella McCartney, Apple, Netflix, and Wal-Mart have in common? They were all subjects of the most popular episodes of Harvard Business School's Cold Call podcast in the last year. Twice monthly, host and Chief Marketing and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
Business Administration at HBS, called luxury goods "a changing space, a space with extraordinary zip and excitement…Things are kicking along vigorously." "Simultaneous with that, there's all kinds of change,"... View Details
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
When managers need help leading through turbulent times, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter suggests taking wisdom from the sayings of that expert on confusion, Yogi Berra. "When you come to a fork in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
on every PC shipped in the late 1990s? Researchers line up on both sides of the argument. A recent working paper by Harvard Business School professor Pai-Ling Yin and Stanford professor Timothy F. Bresnahan offers an answer. Looking at... View Details
- 21 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
To Buy Happiness, Spend Money on Other People
gives some cash to two women in Harvard Square. The catch this time: Each of them must spend the money on someone else. "We've shown in our research that giving money to others actually does make people happier," says Norton, an associate professor of marketing at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
witnessed, but NO VIRGINIA, the business cycle is not dead.” Others cited forces that, by implication, appeared to weight more heavily as influences on expansion. They included continued reasonable increases in View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
the amount of nicotine they inhale, gradually weaning themselves off their addiction if they choose. “The value proposition of e-cigarettes is clear” "The value proposition of e-cigarettes is clear," says John A. Quelch, Charles Edward Wilson Professor of... View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
successful collegiate athletic program into a hot ticket for admission. Georgetown University applications multiplied 45 percent between 1983 and 1986 following a surge of basketball success. Northwestern University applications advanced 21 percent after winning the... View Details
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
this edited volume come about, and what is meant by the term "broadband explosion"? Robert Austin: This book was a result of the fourth Harvard Business School Colloquium on the Computer and Telecommunications industries, which... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
a consequence Apple continues to find pressure on its prices, which makes it harder for them to sustain a big premium over time. This is why Apple has barely generated any real profits out of its core Mac View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
Business School, studies factors that affect consumer choice. Bollinger, an assistant professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, studies the marketing of sustainable products.) "There are all these little things that we're supposed... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
unregulated.” A big vision for American capitalism And behind this kink in the US competitive landscape stood Edna Gleason, who kept her pharmacy business running profitably until her death in the mid-1950s.... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman