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- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
in their business model—defects that numerous outsiders noted from day one. It was a classic case of wishful thinking. Q: How can managers without executive authority spot the warning signs of denial and help reverse the process before... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
term. “It is these shareholders who pushed companies to generate returns at levels that were not sustainable. They also made sure high returns were tied to management compensation. The pressure to produce... View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
pointed out that "So many managers are afraid that attitude is too soft, too difficult to assess and to use as a key hiring criteria." Saurabh Dwivedy commented that "...attitude, morals, ethics, and leadership skills are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
Economics; Brigitte C. Madrian, Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Harvard Kennedy School; and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds, with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA. The team has completed... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
producing companies became larger and more autonomous. Even producers, if they happened to be small operators of oil refineries, iron works, and cigarette factories, could not begin to compete with the new giants. So they often faced the... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
Canada, Shanghai, Bogotâ¡, London, Paris, Valencia, Santiago, Bangkok, and Auckland. We spend our first four days viewing wild animals in the Ngorongoro crater, Serengeti, and Lake Manyara regions. Our guides manage simultaneously to... View Details
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
in the United States, but US companies gave it all up.” HBS Professor of Management Practice Willy C. Shih served as president of Kodak's Digital & Applied Imaging business through the turn of the 21st century. Shortly after starting... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
market. Q: In your paper, you explain that your analysis of the "classical concern" in the diffusion of new technologies is based on technological progress versus economic resources. Can you explain this? A: The classical debate in economics has been whether... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
Australia’s leading public financial services companies with assets, investments, and loans under management of more than A$36 billion. Secure in her own success, Russo has made good on her desire to include family. Six of her nephews and... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
out, many of them become further complicated when experiments are moved out of a laboratory and into a bank branch filled with real employees serving real customers in real time. To its credit, the I&D team thought carefully about ways to increase the learning... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
platform might be too good to be true. The company was crowdsourcing creative work, inviting people to both pitch ideas and create marketing videos — and promising to pay anywhere from a few hundred for the best concepts to several thousand for top-notch View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
subjective value, persuasion, and attention. We discuss how an understanding of these mechanisms can be used to better elucidate various elements of consumer psychology. We show how recent findings have produced a deeper understanding of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
of fresh orange juice. For the last 18 years, Arhodidis worked for Eurobank, one of the country’s four systemic banks. When he left last July, he was a member of the executive board and a general manager in charge of global markets,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
An Emmy Award–winning television writer, Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) started out by taking a sitcom writing class at the UCLA Extension School while working as a senior business planner at Walt Disney Studios. Now an executive producer for... View Details
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
service technologies from a provider, customer, and investor perspective. Customers are concerned with integration and driving down costs, said Steven Lewis, Microsoft's general manager of .net market development. "There is a lot of... View Details
- 14 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professors James Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, and Leonard A. Schlesinger literally wrote the book on service industry management with The Service Profit Chain. Now the trio is back with What Great... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
“partner-level” executives. They wear three hats: as producers they generate revenue, as managers they guide teams, and as leaders they help shape the destiny of the organization. Absent stars, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
US elections. David Perpich (MBA 2007) oversaw the development of that groundbreaking paywall and has led the company in the development of successful new digital products such as NYT Cooking. Now we ask Perpich—named president and general View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Wan Heads HBSP
Wan Photo courtesy HBSP “I want Harvard Business School Publishing to succeed as the most authoritative publishing company focused on improving the practice of management and leadership,” says David A. Wan (MBA '81), who took the reins of... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?
headquarters, and e) try to produce benchmarks for companies to use in evaluating the size of their own headquarters. Q: You wrote in the paper, "The most striking aspect of the survey results is the wide variation in the size and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace