Information And Transformation Function - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Feb 2018
Op-Ed

How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility

Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Battilana

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

But what's more interesting—and this is a function of operating in an environment such as India where heart disease is endemic—it's a genetic trait among Indians, and also there are so many people, so there... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

(in which service provision is mandated by law) as well as monopolies (in which customers have no real alternatives).6 Also excluded are internal business functions (e.g., human resources and View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

the entity and even then questions about who they report to, how they are appraised/evaluated, what powers and decision rights they have and how trust View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

analyze their own companies and how they create next-generation executives. And execs early in their work lives should use this information to think long View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

26 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

for behavior, and draws on concepts and techniques from neuroscience to inform her research in marketing. For corporations, on the other hand, the science is a means to an end... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

execute such campaigns? According to HBS professor Alvin J. Silk and MIT professor Ernst R. Berndt, "The long-run cost function for firms in the global advertising and... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

coming down, I’m relatively optimistic that more of what seems like sci-fi will become reality over the next couple of decades. If you think about data as being the backbone of the modern economy, and the transmission of View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

when official production demands it. A homer lamp made by a blacksmith © Michel Anteby For those readers familiar with the HBS teaching case called "Slade," homer making functions a lot like the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

of conflict. They recognize the potential for escalation in zero-sum thinking, mutual perceptions of vulnerability, a history of distrust or injury that has transformed perceptions, and cultural... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

investors and he’s the “flag,” the name. Given that case, that would inform a world view that has a high sensitivity to perceptions in what we call in real estate “the real economy.” Are the rooms full,... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

Can big companies ride the entrepreneurial tiger to transformation and renewal? Yes, said participants in the panel discussion "Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside" at the HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

people could be ready for general management assignments. In one case, Gerstner and his team were discussing the next job for a high-potential female executive. Most felt that she needed a bigger job in her View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

Tony Domit, vice president of a network business unit, began developing a method that used off-the-shelf components to perform the Xerox networked printer-controller functions. Domit's solution used an IBM personal computer, some special chips, View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

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