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- 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
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
Nike managers failed to pick up the relevant market signals and learn from them. It took them too long to figure out that consumers wanted something different from what Nike was offering at the time.... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
students make and more about improving the returns they achieve. Related Reading: Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'? Why Isn't Business Research More View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
lifeblood of most companies as they allow existing companies to grow within markets where they have already gained a foothold. What kills companies is trying to introduce sustaining innovations into disruptive markets and vice versa.... View Details
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
Are public actions by CEOs the best way to reflect or reinforce them? Presumably, such actions will be applauded primarily by employees; after all, they signed on to work for an organization with some awareness of its mission and values.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
SUMMING UP Are Computers and Tech-Driven Networks In Their Twilight Years? Issues raised by the ascendancy of network technology are many and varied, judging from responses to this month’s column based on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
acquisition targets, and organizations of all types bid for employees—executives, highly skilled salespersons, and so on. More generally, the research may be relevant to any... View Details
- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
research question. The researcher could defensibly write three different papers based on the three different research questions, and fail to report all the dependent measures in each paper—instead just reporting measures that were View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
relevant to those who are embarking on early career decisions. Understanding the conditions that enhance the strength of an organization's career imprint, such as a strong corporate culture, should help individuals better evaluate future... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
tread." All-in Cost The relevant measure for people struggling to build a microenterprise, be it selling onions, scrap metal, cell phones, or translation services, has to be the all-in cost of financing for working capital View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative
challenges to pursuing that opportunity were, first, gaining credibility and commitment within HBS for such a new endeavor, and, second, demonstrating to the relevant external practitioner View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
catch-up-with-the-buddies lunch, meetings now span a day and a half and they happen up to six times a year. While reviewing relevant materials used to mean flipping through the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
represent. Many financial practices out there excessively penalize foreign activities when these operations represent true opportunities. The best managers and firms combine a detailed understanding of the View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
business leaders for intensive discussions of the spiritual dimensions of leadership and how their personal beliefs govern their lives and positively influence the roles they play in society. Sessions use... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 03 Nov 2011
- What Do You Think?
The Ultimate Question in Management
several forms. But many proposed questions were clustered around inquiries about willingness to recommend, trust, and authenticity. Among suggested questions that managers might ask of themselves were: "What positive, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Aug 2019
- What Do You Think?
Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?
solutions to these complex problems, some better and some worse.” r_ganesh raised a highly relevant point in concluding that “the case study is off the pedestal of method-worshippers. It is a good thing.... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
Companies and people need to embrace change in order to succeed in the future, according to HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. In this, the second of a two-part interview for HBS Working Knowledge, she explains the leadership skills of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
it creates a legally independent project company and finances that company with nonrecourse debt (i.e., the debt must be repaid by cash flows from the project company only.) The relevant question is: Why... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
Everyone talks about how quickly business changes, yet some HBS cases remain reliably relevant decades after they are written. We take a behind-the-scenes look at five cases that are at least twenty years old, are still regularly taught... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
"medical" expenditures. Such a debate would be relevant to a variety of federal programs, including the ESAs and to medical savings accounts. Q: Why is the U.S. Survey of Consumer Finances such a... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen