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- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Markets Authors:Charles Dhanaraj and Tarun Khanna Publication:Academy of Management Learning & Education 10, no. 4 (December 2011) Abstract Economic growth in the Western world increasingly depends on meaningful engagement with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
future.” Book Excerpt Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies Ranjay Gulati Chapter 2: The Art of the Tradeoff If you buy Gotham Greens’ fresh produce, you’ll notice that it comes packaged in single-use plastic... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
value for customers, and extraordinary returns to investors. Neither had extensive schooling in business administration. John Bogle earned a liberal arts degree from Princeton. Herb Kelleher received his from Wesleyan, with majors in... View Details
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
managers can team with creative talent in six "culture industries": Fashion, publishing, art/architecture/design, film, music, and food. Her subjects include fashion pioneer Chanel, publishers Penguin and Atavist, film icons Variety and the Sundance... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
insights into foreign policy, statecraft, and world order have been widely discussed. Yet surprisingly, until this book, his impressive achievements as a negotiator have escaped systematic analysis. While specific cases have been examined... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
spirit, and insight—simply breaks the mold. Youngme Moon's DIFFERENT is that kind of book, a book for "people who don't read business books...," a book that feels like an intimate conversation with a friend who has thought deeply about how the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer
controlled.” He noted that nonprofit (or “tax-exempt,” as he prefers) organizations operate under the same restraints as startups. Given that reality, nonprofit leaders and fundraisers need to have a nimble, entrepreneurial mindset. The View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
the landscape. Q: Another hot topic in the nonprofit world is the idea of creating a for-profit business to help underwrite the cost of operations. Is this the way to go to secure a reliable stream of funds? A: I don't think so. There's a... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
In a new book, Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts, Harvard Business School professor Michael Watkins dissects the art of give-and-take. This excerpt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-005.pdf Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health products in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
chapters so that students are prepared for the rewards and challenges they will face in the professional cost accounting world of today and tomorrow. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53893 forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
and time costs. Organic wine finally attained niche popularity in the 2010s, mainly in northwest Europe and in cosmopolitan global cities elsewhere, as fine-dining restaurants like Noma sought wines with clear terroir. Organic wine remained a tiny percentage of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
consumers is a more complicated challenge. One approach Chinese manufacturers are using is to acquire companies around the world in order to get fast access to the technologies they need to modernize their product lines. ChemChina is a... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
thus serve three distinct roles. First, they help students develop diagnostic skills in a world where markets and technologies are constantly changing. "The purpose of business education," a business-school professor noted more... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
success in judo strategy. "Our strategy," she notes, "is as much the art of exclusion as it is the art of inclusion, or what you are going to do." Rule Two: Stay On The Offensive But... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
spatial—that would normally separate them from their employees. They do so by cultivating the art of listening to people at all levels of their organization, and by learning to talk with those people in ways that are personal, honest, and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
5,000 board members from around the world to find out. We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards. Although directors in certain industries are more cognizant of the threat of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Review The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice By: Garvin, David A., and Joshua D. Margolis Abstract—The article looks at giving and receiving advice as an element of organizational leadership and managerial ability. It suggests that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
universities in the world of higher education in the 21st century. Is it going to be Europe, whose great institutions really defined what a modern university would be in the 19th century? The United States, which is without question still... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
ensure the development of domestic industries, and the profound and measurable success of these policies lionized him further, not only in England but also in the European world more broadly. But as the British Empire matured, its policy... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne