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- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
covering world-class brands, innovative start-ups, and social enterprises, and the most popular of the more than 30 episodes produced in the past year are listed below. The... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 13 Jun 2014
- Op-Ed
World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention
to haunt them as advertisers become frustrated by the lack of innovation and specter of corruption that can prevail in a monopoly. As a result, they may be getting unwanted attention from government View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
competitors. Are there limits to boundaryless behavior? If carried too far, can it result in loss of control over the quality of goods and services delivered by the supply chain? Can reliance on others for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
auto makers have made advances, and Korean manufacturers are focusing on improving their quality and innovating on warranties and assurance... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
continuity; discard control systems that limit creativity; discourage too much "convergent" thinking that "thrives on focus"; encourage processes that identify and invest in ideas View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
Summing Up Does Social Equality Improve Productivity? Inequality in our society is an important and growing issue. It prompted a debate among respondents to this month's column about the causes, specifically the role played by View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
economy of the '90s brought a golden age and aura to VC firms in the United States. In 1999, venture capitalists controlled more than $46 billion, with skyrocketing returns to match the risks of their... View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
further growth, and essentially the loss of control of the company by the board, which was even required to remake its composition. At Volkswagen, eerily similar things happened, this time with engineering... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
scale?" That's the problem he explores in the HBS Teaching Note, Technology Innovations in K-12 Education, cowritten with Roniesha Copeland (HBS MBA '14), and research assistant Christine S. An. The... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
country innovated in ways to minimize physical contact during the test procedure, such as drive-through and phone booth testing facilities, which protected both medical staff View Details
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
commitments that influence the supply chain, and governments creating proper incentives and market dynamics to fuel innovation and usher in... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
goods in their stores. “You have to make it clear why it is worth their time and money,” says Lal. A balanced approach to agent network growth is best. When growth is too fast, agents compete among a small... View Details
- 30 May 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?
by the United States. Nearly all of it involves the trade of manufactured goods. Much less attention is being paid to trade in services, which represent 84 percent of all employment in the US, 80 percent of global spending, and... View Details
- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
leadership, governance, innovation management, the networking of organizations, and social responsibility—as the "single most important development(s) in the area of management in the just-ended decade... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
events which should expose the phone market to more competition and provide opportunities for start-ups. Future Talk One of the biggest challenges, but also opportunities, is masking the complexity of converged devices with an easy-to-use... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
officer, chief financial officer, and a senior staff executive) had final authority. This promised a far shorter deliberation process than was typical of the Innovation Board in the second period. 39 The... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 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
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
reading in a trade publication about Benihana's innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
policies, purchasing procedures. Allocate just enough resources to keep it alive but not enough to risk its becoming an innovator — because that would require more investment. Under the banner of decentralization View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
its start in Parma, Italy, in 1899, when the great-grandfather of current CEO-owner Francesco Mutti canned and sold tomatoes to an illiterate rural population that identified the product by the two lions on its label. Even from the start... View Details