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- 05 Jul 2012
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?
Summing Up Do Managers Take Trust for Granted? Trust is a big issue these days judging from the volume of responses to this month's column. Its importance in management is agreed on. There is a long list of behaviors that can damage it.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
Oprah that business leaders can learn from in the twenty-first century. —Nancy Koehn Paraphrasing her HBS colleague, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Koehn said, "In the middle of every initiative, journey, or big... View Details
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
suggests new research based on an international competition to design a NASA robot. "When experts have a been-there-done-that mindset, potential breakthroughs may hit the discard pile before companies can evaluate them in full." Harvard View Details
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
graduate of the General Management Program, an intensive seven-week Executive Education curriculum at Harvard Business School. On April 22, beaming in from space via satellite feed, he spent half an hour addressing a packed audience of... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
events seems inconceivable. For decades, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler were American icons, Detroit's fabled Big 3. Responsible for a significant percentage of all American jobs, they lifted countless blue-collar families into the... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Summit Explores the New Economy
Harvard Business School's Digital Initiative recently gathered students, scholars, and leaders from practice at the 2015 Digital Initiative Summit to "explore the digital transformation of the economy" and help them meet 21st... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
locus of integration typically shifts to the interface with the customer. 6. Be patient for growth but impatient for profitability. Managers inside new-growth businesses often feel tremendous pressure to quickly ramp up sales volume. But... View Details
- Web
Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy &... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Bridging the ESG Data Gap
sector though, and she planned to pursue a post-HBS career at a Midwest company to test her thesis that tech-led growth could revitalize the region’s battered economy. Her pivot to entrepreneurship began while looking for companies with inclusivity and sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Aug 2019
- What Do You Think?
Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?
made to provide a proper context for cases. The strongest supporters appeared to be those who experienced the case method several decades ago and have applied it to their work over that period of time. Here is a sample of their exchanges. Rhil commented: “Never a View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
The following is an excerpt that was adapted and lightly edited from chapter nine of Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can't Win, written by Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao and published August 20, 2024. In today's global digital and... View Details
- Profile
Era Jain
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I was seeking challenges that would help me grow across dimensions beyond software engineering. After seeing my sister go through her Founder journey, I was inspired to start my own venture. View Details
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
ensure the organization’s preparedness for future crises. Information gathering The flow of high-quality information is more important than ever. A United States military framework for thinking about the external environment that has gained traction in the View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
attention, and thereby educate people to influence the tide of events. Prominent business leaders have a bully pulpit, if they want to take it, on the issue of climate change and environmental sustainability. Today's View Details
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
to more bustle for the business. According to Dai: “Smaller businesses have less of an established brand and are more likely to benefit from ads. Making people aware of your name is potentially a powerful way to market if you’re a small... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
Despite the uncertain climate for start-ups, launching a business continues to hold irresistible appeal for aspiring entrepreneurs. For many African-Americans, entrepreneurship is seen as a means of building community as well as personal... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?
to lose money if they grant price discounts in-store to inquiring customers—although some will do so to appease an angry customer or through a sense of fairness. In some cases, however, self-matching is the best strategy to earn higher profits, says Harvard View Details
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
In 1995, Harvard Business School professors Clayton M. Christensen and Joseph L. Bower wrote a seminal article for Harvard Business Review, Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave. Those words launched... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
The frigid temperatures on the Harvard Business School campus in mid-January were a minor inconvenience for the 641 students enrolled in Short Intensive Programs (SIPs), the no-fee, no-credit elective courses now in their fifth year. The... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
thrive? Bhaskar Chakravorti: Let me start with a replay of a conversation I had recently with Frederick, the person who runs the auto repair shop where I regularly take my 1998 and 2002 vintage cars. I asked him if he was experiencing a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace