Capabilities - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

markets, from regulations to a demanding customer base that includes individuals, institutions, and broker/dealers. To meet these challenges, he said, the New York Stock Exchange has become "a very electronic market" whose technological View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

01 Sep 2020
News

Building a Strong and Prosperous Society

Economic growth rates are much more stable and social welfare much higher under inclusive regimes: societies in which the free market is balanced by a democratically elected, capable government and a strong civil society. How can business... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

might move right into the doctor’s office or clinic. It’s by making lower-cost venues of care more capable that health care becomes affordable, not by expecting large hospitals to charge less. Could you give an example of a technological... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2001
News

Q&A: Donna Dubinsky

system. Handspring’s Visor quickly distinguished itself from the competition through the addition of an expansion slot that allows users to add a variety of capabilities — digital camera, MP3 player, or cell phone, for example — to their... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; PalmPilot; Apple; Telecommunications; Information

05 Aug 2014
News

A Diversified Portfolio

tech companies. The result is a critical number of experienced, well-connected women capable of launching high-growth companies. And there will be more where they came from. Last year, women filled 60 percent of the jobs created in the... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Mar 2013
News

Alumni News | Bookshelf

(Knopf) Incorporating neuroscience, psychology, and a historical view of the political cartoon's evolution, Navasky, the former longtime editor of the Nation, discusses what makes political cartoons so capable of enraging, provoking, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

critical moments in the development of all new technologies or skills. It becomes more desirable as even the most basic appliances, such as our mobile phones and watches, become loaded with capabilities of which most of us are unaware. In... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

seven Cs. Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises As demonstrated after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Japanese businesses have a unique capability for long-term survival. Hirotaka Takeuchi explains their strategy of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 Aug 2022
News

Vision: To Go-Go

can build a multibillion-dollar business capable of identifying the next big food trend and propagating it across a vast network of cloud kitchens. “We only have 80 kitchens right now,” Azuero says. “We believe we can easily fit 1,000... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; entrepreneurship; foodtech; startup; Latin America

20 Apr 2016
News

Steps to Success

capable people to do things they never knew existed and to achieve mastery of it.” In describing that sense of accomplishment, Ruhr could well be speaking about the early years of her own career, which was born in Professor Ray A.... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

20 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

momentum for adoption? Investors? Regulators? Or is this, as Eccles said, "a giant collective-action problem--no one group can change it." What metrics would be most useful and actionable to regulators, stakeholders, and the companies themselves? What View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting

01 Mar 2025
News

Forward Thinking

create value more broadly.” The spillovers from innovation in the commercial space sector are also highly ecumenical. A space-based system capable of detecting troop movements, for instance, can just as easily gather data on supply... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk; Space Research and Technology; Government

06 Oct 2020
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Curtis Wu (MBA 2018)

Professor Paula Price said it best: build your towering strengths. HBS attracts some of the most driven, intelligent, and capable people in the world. Being in that environment made me question the qualities I previously thought made me... View Details

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Professor Robin Ely on Challenging Conventional Wisdom - Blog: RGE Report

women experience insecurity, but they respond to it differently. For instance, men may opt to speak up if they are worried about others seeing them as smart and capable (”I can’t let this meeting end without my boss knowing I have a... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Tipping Point

purchase price—with about 3 percent of consumers choosing to tip. She believes consumer education and trust, as well as frictionless tipping options, will drive those numbers higher. When Kahawa launched tipping capability for customers... View Details

Keywords: April White; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2013
News

Commitment to Leadership

community and a set of organizational capabilities so that talented individuals can collaborate and engage in discovery-driven learning and integrative decision-making. At HBS, we see our alumni as partners in all we do. Our graduates are... View Details

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

designing and managing an operations organization. The best way to do something depends critically on the characteristics and capabilities of your organization and the competitive context in which it finds itself. That is, lean... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Dec 2016
First Look

December 6, 2016

advantage is modeled as a stock of capability that accumulates over time, a firm's proclivity to manage short-term earnings at the expense of long-term investment can have very different consequences depending on whether the firm's View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

and Kate Barasz Abstract—Data gathered on the web has vastly enhanced the capabilities of marketers. With people regularly sharing personal details online and internet cookies tracking every click, companies can now gain unprecedented... View Details