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- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
corporations, which are under increasing pressure to demonstrate corporate social responsibility in addition to generating profits. She acknowledges that the idea could be a tough sell. “If I went to a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
inaction. That was the message delivered on February 12, 2019, at “Confronting Climate Change: Boston-Based Ideas that Can Change the World,” a panel discussion at the Spangler Center moderated by HBS Professor Michael Toffel and... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
social media, responses are immediate.” Also, votes allow companies to perform consumer research cheaply, generating new ideas for products or flavors, or testing consumer preference for options it might be... View Details
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
their returns. They believe that companies must select among binary options of serving shareholders or serving society. This is a wrong-headed idea because companies with clarity about their purpose actually perform better in the long... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- News
Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
The first written case, a one-page narrative about management challenges at General Shoe Company, was taught in 1921 and marks the beginning of a century of case teaching. “Over time, as we would develop a series of cases in a field, we... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "What stood out for me initially was the first-year section, where I made some of my closest friends and thrived in the give-and-take of class discussions. I loved the case method as a process for testing ideas. It forces you to get past View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
pricing trends. Read product reviews in industry journals. Quick-and-dirty market research can also help identify the dimensions along which customers are overserved. The other group of customers to look for is nonconsumers, who generally... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
survey of 72 successful and unsuccessful innovative entrepreneurs and 310 executives. Drawing on network theory, we develop a theory of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition that explains why these behaviors increase the probability of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
business applications, aimed at empowering teams to better respond to changing customer and competitive threats, are already au fait with this idea of using military strategy to guide project decision-making. Many Agile-immersion... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
populations they were trying to help” In the wake of this evolution over the past decade, more organizations have adopted a hybrid business model in which a social mission is the primary goal, but they still aim to generate enough... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
is for companies to frame goals in terms of promotion, and what we show here is that this might actually lead to cheating as a side effect.” The dichotomy raises an important question: If employees are generally focused on the benefits of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
role. These valuation gulfs had no basis in fact; they were driven entirely by random role assignments. At the negotiating table, clinging firmly to the idea that one's counterpart is stubborn or extreme, for example, is likely to trigger... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
and people part of the equation. Tushman, for example, asks a fundamental question: As a leader, what do you have to do to cause an organization to change? "Over all of this, we use a number of experiential exercises so people can apply these View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
or a combination—can catalyze leaders' listening skills, reveal what does or doesn't work inside the organization, highlight hidden challenges and opportunities, and generate essential competitive intelligence. It can promote engagement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
General Manage-ment unit. With the growing importance of the Internet and the fact that the daily operations of most organizations now rely heavily on computer technology, IT "has moved to the top of the agenda of most CEOs," notes Nolan.... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he holds a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units. He is the author or coauthor of... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
being created, while in others, the stock of technical knowledge that can potentially be transferred into new ventures is locked up in companies. The best example is Japan, where most innovations are generated within research laboratories... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
trust we have lost with society," Nohria told some 100 attendees. "It is an extraordinarily promising idea as important a topic as we have at this time." The workshop, the first conference sponsored by HBS's new Business... View Details
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Crossing the Bridge from Program Learning to Practical Application
We were delighted to see how someone could take the general ideas we presented in the program, tailor them for a specific risk environment, and then apply them in a very practical and impactful way. Bob... View Details