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- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
Employee well-being. CEOs were concerned about their employees: their safety on the job; overall well-being; and their own task as leaders of “keeping up morale and managing people’s fears.” Having to make decisions under uncertainty... View Details
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
It's best to be nice when negotiating a business deal, but it's also OK to be aggressive in pursuing your interests—as long as you back up your position with facts. "If you're a seller and your price seems high, but it's justified in... View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
within a particular industry, they would buy up companies in other industries. Though South Africa is often classified as an emerging economy, it might be more correctly seen as having two economies. It became a very concentrated... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
If Noam Wasserman's entrepreneurship elective were a start-up company, investors would be delighted with its growth. When the Harvard Business School professor first offered his Founders' Dilemmas course in 2009, a mere 42 second-year MBA students signed up. Two View Details
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
decades of his life. Q: You spend a lot of time in the book talking about all of this—the impact of these early years on his middle and later years. A: The child is the father of the man and, you know, Andy Grove is the last CEO who will... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
A few years ago, Sandra J. Sucher received worried emails from two MBA students in her first-year Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) class at Harvard Business School. Elana Green (now Elana Silver) and David Rosales (both HBS... View Details
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
content themselves with thinking that even if there isn't an immediate payoff for doing the right thing, then at least the goodwill they build up with the public will provide a buffer to offset negative publicity when something goes... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
rate of 10 percent a year for four decades—this is the highest sustained growth in real output of any country in the world. Q: Although your research is still ongoing, what appear to be some factors contributing to the country's success?... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
came to this country chasing the American dream. I never thought I would be Dean of Harvard Business School." When Harvard President Drew Faust called on May 4 to inform him that he was her choice, Nohria, drawing on his years of... View Details
- 05 Apr 2021
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?
(Image credit: Harvard Business School) Some years ago at Harvard Business School, on classroom and office walls we posted a motto: “We all teach, we all learn, for life.” It was intended for faculty as well as students and staff. It... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
During the past few years inventory turns among U.S. manufacturers have climbed steadily, and it appears as if productivity has improved nicely. One explanation for these happy trends is that the massive investments we've been making in... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
them until they were at HBS, which was 20 years later, and how impactful that seemingly simple experience was. So, these things are very formative in peoples' lives, and I think it's important that our students at HBS, and other people... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
than six years as governor and was boosted by family connections. Mukunda's findings support the LFT theory that unfiltered presidents often turn up at the high and low ends—four of the five highest ranked... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
school systems typically devote up to 85 percent of their budgets to personnel. This creates heavy managerial burdens and difficulties in aligning staffing to meet the needs of students and parents. AltSchool's microschool strategy... View Details
- 07 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark
In July, after ten years at the School's helm, Dean Kim B. Clark stepped down to assume the presidency of Brigham Young University-Idaho. During Clark's decade of leadership, the School became a standard-setter in the use of information... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
years of experience at the likes of Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson, decided to set himself up as Spain's first pizza magnate and founded TelePizza. He believed that customers in Spain—and,... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
several years ago to connect the back end of its 50,000 stores with company headquarters. But it soon dawned on executives that 90 percent of Starbucks customers use the Web, and many are high-end business travelers. Offering them Web... View Details
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
game is supposed to be quality up and cost down. And this is one where that has not happened. And it's been very slow with the quality movement." Professor Regina Herzlinger, who has studied the health care system for three decades,... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
An explosion in software patents within the last 50 years fueled the rise of America’s six major tech hubs, but also siphoned talent from some of the nation’s biggest cities, new research finds. The transition to six major hubs—San... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne