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- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
are also shown to be actors in periodic deglobalization waves. This was because their function was to reinforce the gaps in wealth and income rather than disrupt them. Business enterprises proved disappointing institutions for knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Company: How Companies Create Continuous Innovation What does it take to truly change the world? Hirotaka Takeuchi shares the practices that help leading companies turn knowledge into lasting breakthroughs.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
C-Suite and the CEO what internal and external stakeholders are thinking and how this may affect corporate image in terms of credibility, confidence, trust, relationship, and reputation. In short, the new CCO must understand both the science and the art of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
higher quality employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in consistently hiring people aligned with company values, it can also neglect unit managers’ knowledge about which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
learn demand at each price (“exploration" objective). Over time, the retailer can use this knowledge to set a price that maximizes revenue throughout the remainder of the selling season (“exploitation" objective). We propose a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
buying and maintaining technology hardware. "You've seen the cost of launching a new company go from $10 to $15 million down to $500,000 to $1 million," comments MBA Class of 1954 Professor of Management Practice Joe Lassiter. "Since I... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
long-term study of successful CEOs, some of them outlined in the August 2008 Harvard Business Review article, "The Uncompromising Leader," cowritten with Russell A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. He also offers HBS Working... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
go from $10 to $15 million down to $500,000 to $1 million,” comments MBA Class of 1954 Professor of Management Practice Joe Lassiter. “Since I came to the School in 1996 I’ve also seen more and more students who have already worked at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
moral nuisance to a global brand-driven powerhouse offering products essential to daily life is one of the more intriguing stories in modern business history. The origins of beauty products lie primarily in local knowledge of the scents... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
an action plan to implement back home what they've learned on campus. We then visit each district a few months later to check on the progress of their action plans, and to identify topics to study in the next cycle. Then the knowledge... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
innovation and crisis. “Is there a structural relation between innovation and crisis? I think there has to be,” Merton said. Successful innovation will always outstrip the infrastructure to support it, at least for some considerable time. That’s true because most... View Details
- Profile
Arthur Rock
Computer. Rock has had a remarkably intuitive sense of the people with whom he invested and his steady hand and ever-curious intellect provided invaluable mentorship and advice to a legion of technology giants. What has become standard industry View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
political—should always marshal as much credibility and goodwill as possible in anticipation of having to deal with the unanticipated. Joseph Fuller (@JosephBFuller) is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and co-leads... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
organization induced teachers to volunteer their knowledge and preferences, which otherwise would have been difficult to elicit. Although governance was a struggle, none of the cases in our sample suffered a "tragedy of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
tempered by a fact that informs our financial planning. The School has been consistently successful in fueling innovation in teaching and knowledge creation and in enhancing the residential learning experience. This, in turn, has enlarged... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
priorities?; (3) Do I give subordinates timely and direct feedback they can act on? Have I developed a succession roadmap?; and (4) Is my leadership style still effective, and does it reflect who I truly am? This highly readable and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
We corroborate this evidence by showing that target difficulty is more effective for carbon reduction projects requiring more novel knowledge and in high-pollution industries. We discuss limitations and suggest avenues for future... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
its benefits. And so, as time rolled on in the 2000s, we then started to see various kinds of good practice codes of corporate governance, or even legal mandates in some jurisdictions to increase diversity, particularly gender diversity... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
them. In order to get those two jobs done in the context of an MBA, it's actually quite hard, because we're organized to give them knowledge and we don't equip them to do these other jobs well. And then when I come home, what job do my... View Details