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- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
Excellence: Pay Strategies for the New Economy (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000). Alina Tugend, Secrecy About Salaries May Be on the Wane, The New York Times,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
A recent study by HBS assistant professor Jordan Siegel tests whether foreign firms can leapfrog their countries' weak legal institutions by listing equities in New York and voluntarily abiding by U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
door to success. Getting the sequence wrong could have led to failure. Though often overlooked, sequencing matters greatly in negotiation. Whether you're trying to get the "right" people to attend a charity event, invest in a View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
the spread of COVID-19—airborne transmission—is largely reduced by wearing face masks, with 78,000 fewer infections in Italy in a month and 66,000 fewer in New York City over a three-week period once masks... View Details
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
management decision can have a tremendous impact. Q: What newspapers were particularly successful in responding to the Internet challenge? A: Some of the more successful newspaper responses include companies like The New View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
opportunities, and defined the opportunities for packet software. That framework is changing now. The Internet is redefining software. The Internet is redefining the role of computing and communication and their interaction with each other. I still don't understand the... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
'diversity' really mean? Keynote speaker Anna Holmes—founder of Jezebel.com, columnist for the New York Times Sunday Book Review, and editorial director of the digital company Fusion—recalled an event from a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
British Parliament replaced common land with private property--a process that prompted better management and made Great Britain the leader in the Industrial Revolution. I then began to think about the relationship over time between new... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
predictions. Some forecasters built sales forces to travel from office to office in lower Manhattan or in Boston and Chicago. Others sent their representatives to Rotary Clubs and churches in smaller cities and towns to give lectures. Nearly all forecasters advertised... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
Commerce and Strategy panel at the 2001 Global Alumni Conference. He told alumni that fighting against a larger, stronger rival means not playing the game that your opponents want you to play. "Instead, figure out a different way to go about your business, with... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
that may have simply been terrible situations in which the coach had very little chance of success. For example, in his first opportunity as an NFL head coach, Carroll lasted just one season as coach of the New View Details
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
Business School Press, forthcoming) as reported in Louis Uchitelle, "Revising a Boardroom Legacy," The New York Times, September 28, 2007, pp. C1 and C5. View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
health choices. The good news is that human nature can also be a source of solutions. Through her studies in Zambia exploring the reasons for unwanted pregnancies and the incentives that would motivate hairdressers to sell condoms to... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
complex task requiring an almost messianic set of beliefs and the ability to communicate them in convincing ways. For a classic example of this, read Robert Caro's prize-winning biography of builder Robert Moses who transformed the cityscape of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 07 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Innovation in Asia
University. CIBER sponsored the study, which will be released on April 16th. Among the preliminary findings is that most companies are not deterred by security or intellectual property concerns when considering outsourcing moves to Asia,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
of potential funding sources to solve social problems, much of it stemming from an intergenerational transfer of wealth and new wealth from financial and high-tech entrepreneurs. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
Katie Thomas, Inside the C.E.O. Rebellion Against Trump’s Advisory Councils, The New York Times, August 15, 2017, pp. B1 and B4. Bill George, Courageous Leader Triggers a Moral Revolt of CEOs Against Trump,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
extreme example of distancing from organizational tensions: They simply decide to work on their own. Naomi Rothman—a colleague at New York University—and I are analyzing data on contingent workers and are... View Details