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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
companies are springing to life up and down the virtual lanes of the Information Superhighway. As the use of color and moving pictures becomes routine, says Sahlman, Internet "stores" may well be able to give customers an experience that... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
patient outcomes poses particular challenges, in part because "outcome" is a surprisingly nebulous concept. The Value-Based Health Care model divides outcome into a tiered hierarchy: health status achieved (e.g., survival), process of recovery (e.g., how long... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
many organizers use high-pressure tactics to get cards signed. Probably the most damaging however is the impact unions have on innovation. Unions fight change — any change — on the factory floor. Over the years, management gives up trying... View Details
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
needed to be done. Still other organizations give potential employees some latitude in choosing their bosses. At Google, reporting relationships are sufficiently pliable that a new employee has a significant voice in the choice, moving... View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
it came down to money. In previous studies, Fletcher says, participants were offered a higher pay rate per correct answer in the competitive scenario, so it's possible that men respond more to higher pay rates than do women. Societal pressures might also hold women... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
students live through a pretty harrowing experience," says Coval. "The market moves against them, and they have to decide whether they're going to assume a lot of additional risk in the hope of getting back to even. Or perhaps... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
(that total half the value of the U.S. market). "On the trading level," says Seifert, " we need a liquidity pool that gives us low-cost, cross-border access. To accomplish this, we are merging institutions and employing a... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- Profile
Adam Kanner
teams struggle to fill seats for the 41 home dates. In order to fill those seats without giving away tickets, and thus cheapening the franchise’s brand, Kanner had to navigate that difficult route and find ways to move tickets without... View Details
- Profile
Angela R. Hicks Bowman
grade gets every chance to respond by filing a report giving its take on what happened. Angie’s List even sends out complaint-resolution specialists to offer help to a contractor. In 2011, Angie’s List went public, raising $114 million,... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
first year, we told them anything below a C was unacceptable,” recalls Stuckey. Obviously, we don’t want them to be C students, but rather to give them an achievable target.” The second part of the new strategy focused on addressing... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
left and the right. No one wants politics to be corrupted. It’s also critical for business to push back against gerrymandering and voter suppression. An increasing number of firms are giving their employees... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
traditional American strengths you talk about in the book, and you link it to “kaleidoscope thinking.” What is that? If you look back in history, we’ve never been the lowest-cost producer of goods and services, but we have been smart... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
who have decades of experience in both organic and conventional farming, directly manage the farmland they convert. The organization uses a profit-sharing model, giving all participants––partners, operators, and management alike––a stake... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
point. "His hands perform a rapid-fire ballet of encouragement: palms outstretched to reassure the uncertain student, wrists moving in quick circles to urge onward the confident," noted a 1976 article in the Harvard Gazette. "The reply completed, Mr.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
to emphasize a point. “His hands perform a rapid-fire ballet of encouragement: palms outstretched to reassure the uncertain student, wrists moving in quick circles to urge onward the confident,” noted a 1976 article in the Harvard Gazette. “The reply completed, Mr.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
the design process and to approve the school's design. In the natural resources literature, commons theory predicts that, if a robust governance structure is created, this complex form of organizing gives claimants incentives to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
than when you arrived. Ginger Graham (MBA 1986), former president and CEO, Amylin pharmaceuticals, Boulder, Colorado Approach your career as a life-building exercise: go where you can grow, treat everyone with respect, learn every day, and View Details
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
necessarily more extreme than at many other schools. Besides, students have access to all kinds of data when they are choosing colleges, so just how much weight would college-bound kids give to a well-publicized scandal like this one?... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
School: 1962-2012," the case delves into the experiences of alumnae and alumni over the past 50 years, both inside and outside the classroom, as Dean Nitin Nohria considers what HBS might be like 10 years from now, when his young daughters are grown. "It... View Details