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- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
market—they must demonstrate to an independent panel from the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) that a new product works better than existing options for an identifiable group of patients. The rule doesn’t apply to View Details
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
fictional Wall Street villain Gordon Gekko, and real-life Wall Street villain Bernie Madoff, to name a few. Not only were these classic bad guys unquestionably unethical, but all were inarguably creative in carrying out their bad behavior as well. Indeed, it's View Details
- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
Power at the bargaining table is rarely distributed evenly. A job seeker lacking alternative offers is not going to have much "hammer" in salary discussions with a prospective employer. But what happens when you are perceived to... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 19 Sep 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems
Excellence Comes From Saying No Why it's better to be excellent at one thing than good at everything. Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees Think effective leadership requires gregariousness and charisma? Think again.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
inaccurate and increasingly troublesome. Management is a set of well-known processes that help organizations produce reliable, efficient, and predictable results. Really good management helps us do well what we more or less know how to do... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
good at it. They don't put enough effort into the task. They subcontract much of the hard work, at least the most difficult job of winnowing candidates down to several, to headhunters. They often favor those applicants they know... View Details
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
him fly at all. That discussion is a rare surfacing of an issue too often ignored—the problem of mental health in the workplace. “A very interesting question to ask is whether the tragedy will be good or bad... View Details
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
frequently entails short-terms risks in order to create societal value. "Our analysis suggests that most companies rarely coordinate among the three theatres, let alone recognize the contributions of each to societal well-being," write... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
distribution of public goods to their intended recipients. Fans hope that it will do much more, skeptics worry that it might be overhyped. "Aadhaar was created to guarantee only identity, not benefits or entitlements, yet the UIDAI... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
delayed, expense budgets overrun, all with no direct consequences for the individuals in charge. The organization tended to diffuse responsibility for performance, making it difficult to find out who was responsible. When individuals failed, they were View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
Most organizations already have at least some of these processes in place, but they rarely develop and manage them in a coherent, consistent way. Here are eight things that your company should be working on. Identify your company's... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
Choudhury says. "If an indigenous society has discovered medicinal uses of an herb, and if a Western firm can go in there and share the rents with the society, the patent might be a good thing. As a member of the indigenous society,... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
weighing the morality of an action based on its consequences, might see AI as an improvement over the status quo of 40,000 annual motor vehicle deaths. AVs are good at avoiding mistakes, and most of their crashes are caused by human error... View Details
- 18 Nov 2016
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Making a Fast Start on a New Job
improves job performance in the long run. Related Reading: ARTICLES Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable Leaders rarely make a lasting impact on their organizations—even the really, really View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
in governance. In spite of all the checks and balances, failures occurred with boards of directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
accurate" color. 4 Most of the consumers polled in the survey already use the Web to purchase nonapparel products that are not dependent on color. However, the respondents indicated that they rarely purchase apparel online,... View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Brexit is Not Better for Britain Britain rarely has referendums, and for good reason. They call for binary decisions on complex issues, and voters have all sorts of reasons for voting one way or another. It... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
then lead to results. Ironically, that kind of organization building is pretty rare in the nonprofit sector. That's what VPP and other organizations like it are bringing to the table. For the past 20 to 40 years there's been a lot of talk... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
must be profitable to be sustainable. Second, the WDC would take the initiative to target projects in countries that have a good chance of success, where the government is hospitable, the local business community eager for partners, and... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 04 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?
concludes that the phenomenon "continues to be driven ... by our natural tendency to look outside us for a 'silver bullet' solution ... Part of the problem lies with us and our fast-paced world where reflection, connection making, and dialogue View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett