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- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
million, donor assistance was $124 million and out-of-pocket household expenditures were roughly $128 million. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) View Details
- 01 Aug 2019
- What Do You Think?
Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?
group of jubilant colleagues commenting on what a great case it was. I remained silent, trying to figure out why my experience was so much worse. On my tenth attempt to teach the case, this time to a group of executives in Puerto Rico, its View Details
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
Jossey-Bass, 2003). Robert Greenleaf, Servant Leadership (Mahwah, N. J.: The Paulist Press, 1977) Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011). Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr., In Search of Excellence: View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
the challenge of differentiating and integrating an organization—that is, breaking it into specialized parts yet getting the parts to work together. Cases about extreme circumstances force students to think outside their usual domains. The aim is for students to draw... View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
of 64. However, whatever our personal ethics, we are still confronted with these questions: "What does this organization stand for in the way of ethics and corporate responsibility? Can I bring my personal ethics safely through the company gate?" These View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
(Nolan will document management lessons from the recent experience of dot-com companies in a forthcoming book, dot vertigo.) An interest in the concept of mentor capitalism brought HBS Professor Dorothy A. Leonard and Professor Walter... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
not, we might want to reconsider asking them in the first place—or think about how we can make the advisor feel validated even if we don’t take their advice,” John says. Plus, Blunden notes, people should take away a broader lesson from... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
doses to other countries.” Preparing for the next pandemic Kominers believes the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic will leave countries better prepared in the future—“so we build the capacity to produce vaccines at scale as early... View Details
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
Risky Behavior During COVID-19, a National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper released in August. Lessons from the pandemic’s first wave News of a deadly virus hitting the United States was enough to keep diners home in early... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
which the art world uses market categories to separate and organize large amounts of information, which in turn allows buyers and sellers to accurately assess the value of various works. This investigation led to a related lesson that art... View Details
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
Angie [Hicks, MBA 2000] herself. To their credit, the students stuck to their guns." Having other investors you trust critique your stock pitches can be important not only for investment managers, but also for individual investors, says Cohen. "One great... View Details
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
Summing Up Can managers acquire ways of thinking or ways of learning from doctors? Managers can learn from an understanding of how doctors think. But whether the lessons are profound or even totally applicable was a matter of discussion... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
do with problem solving—either avoiding solving problems that crop up in the team or the project, or creating problems. NB: What is a vital lesson that leaders can take away from this? Amabile: I believe it's important for leaders to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
"It makes you think beyond your own actions to how everyone is solving a problem," says Stafford. "You accumulate experience alongside the theory. Getting those lessons together, I suspect, is very valuable." View Details
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
but people will still refer to it as Boaty I say take the gift and run with it!” Frank D. did indeed run with it, suggesting that “The life boats could be Life Boaties. He (apparently referring to the gender of the boat) could teach kids science View Details
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
job? A: The key lesson to boards is that, for compensation and incentive purposes, when management has high career concerns, sometimes less information is better. And, recent evidence suggests that high career concerns in management is... View Details
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
lesson to businesswomen, she said: the ability to separate your performance from your sense of self-worth. Defeats and mistakes are inevitable in business, and shouldn't be viewed as personal failure. "A successful entrepreneur is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
this article, we offer some basic principles and lessons for industries undergoing such a transformation. A Costly Problem, A Radical Solution In a nutshell, product development is often difficult because the "need" information... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 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