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- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't
play a part in how much good people do in the world. Having looked under the hood, what’s your outlook on our capacity for giving, broadly speaking? “I often ask: How do people develop excuses not to give?... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
do not confuse the two. They periodically step back from their arguments and try to confirm their assumptions by examining them critically. If they find that some still lack hard evidence, they may elect to... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
other positions, such as physically demanding blue-collar jobs. “No one is saying CEOs have more dangerous jobs than loggers,” Nicholas says. "We need to do more work to find what mechanisms are causing health problems." Some studies... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
they do it.” The color of money is mostly white The total share of assets managed by minority-owned firms in 2021 was 1.4 percent, according to Lerner, while minorities that year made up over 40 percent of... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
decades mixing and selling skin care formulas before she undertook to build a national market for her products. Howard Schultz did not grow up drinking specialty coffee, but as soon as he was introduced to the business, he learned as much... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
industry by talking to as many people as possible. That was a very good discipline that I still apply," says Machiels, a partner at private equity firm Pegasus Capital Advisors. "I also learned to work with... View Details
- 23 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions
Is it possible to truly empower employees to make their own decisions—even when those decisions could mean life or death? That is the question posed by Dutch home healthcare organization Buurtzorg, which has radically avoided almost all... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
operations. This is, in some sense, what Wal-Mart's global strategy is primarily about. Q: How do you see business shaping the future of globalization? In which ways are companies playing a big role, and in which ways could or should they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2013
- What Do You Think?
Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?
& control," according to Ranji Cherian. As a result, SL was characterized as " a risky proposition within organizations " (John Servant) and a long and hard road for someone" (Karan Yaramada). Dan Wallace asked, "Where View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
day face this dilemma: How do you deal with developments that are utterly and wholly
ambiguous? Living Up To Your Standards When you get right down to it, what choice do you have? You've made a... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 05 Jun 2009
- What Do You Think?
What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
Summing Up If not useful growth, what are we measuring? And why? This column does not thrive on general agreement. And this past month discussants came close to general agreement on the proposition that economic growth is not measured properly View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Christensen rhetorically intones, “How do you prepare to deal with the unexpected that’s coming up? Get there early, set the place up. Read every signal you can get. So it’s intuitive, but it’s also systematic.” Those two qualities —... View Details
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
they've been learned in the program. At the same time, it provides benefits to the sponsoring organizations by requiring participants to work on personally relevant issues. It does, however, have one other... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults
of their own employment as well as how much time they spend at home caring for children and doing housework. Some critics questioned if the preliminary findings might have nothing to do with whether... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
of Leading Innovation, was written by Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, with Greg Brandeau, former CTO of The Walt Disney Studios and current COO/president of Media Maker; Emily Truelove, a PhD candidate... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
“[These leaders] learned a tremendous amount from the mission focus and discipline that came from the military,” says Simons, a Baker Foundation Professor and Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus. “There is a... View Details
- 17 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees
From software that once came in a box to phone apps that do simple tasks, more products and services are moving to a subscription model—and consumers are feeling it. The average US consumer last year spent $273 a month on 12 paid... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
the failure of many other large institutions. Most of the 600 institutions recapitalized by the federal government over the last year do not satisfy either criterion. A lot of bailout decisions were made ad... View Details
- 31 May 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
not only changed how Yoffie designed the course, called Strategy and Technology, but it's also changing how managers in tech-intensive companies are dealing with this issue on the front lines. Yoffie begins the course by exploring the... View Details