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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
A host of organizations — among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines — have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting workforce. Books... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
book, Who Killed Health Care? We asked Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School, to discuss her latest work and her more than 30 years of research in the health care industry. Sean Silverthorne: Why... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Yet, why do gray zones persist and why are they unlikely to disappear? In Moral Gray Zones, Michel Anteby shows how these spaces function as regulating mechanisms within workplaces, fashioning workers' identity and self-esteem while allowing management to maintain... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
reputation as “the everything store” can sometimes work against it, overwhelming consumers with too many options and an impersonal experience. Convening: Indie bookstores are increasingly serving as points for convening, expanding beyond author events to host View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy
Why are people so drawn to social media? The question long haunted Mikolaj "Misiek" Piskorski and eventually led to his new book, A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media. Drawing from years of research dating back to before Facebook, the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
collaboration could make the two platforms differentiate themselves further, causing Apple to focus even more on device sales and Amazon more on book sales for their profits. Through their mathematical model, Zhu and his collaborators... View Details
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
Summing Up Where Is the Leadership Necessary to Regenerate the "Industrial Commons" In their book Producing Prosperity, Gary Pisano and Willy Shih pointed to the lack of long-term thinking and investment as well as education... View Details
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
study further in Networks in Technology and Entrepreneurship, a work-in-progress that will combine data analysis with insights culled from interviews with HBS alumni working in the high-tech and entrepreneurial arenas. "The book will... View Details
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
West. Another speaker used appointment diaries of prominent political figures as a new way to highlight networks and relationships, and how they change over time. A third paper used address books to trace the longevity of firms in 20th... View Details
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
democracies. "Rodrik rejects the notion that efficient markets for capital, goods, and labor will always regulate themselves" Recent books by Dani Rodrik and Robert Kuttner generally support these notions. In his book, Straight... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
"nudge" help here? What do you think? Original Article Books with one-word titles are in fashion these days. Two current ones, Nudge and Enough, help us understand the roots of the current housing and credit crises as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
a practicing doctor, Jerome Groopman, describes brilliant diagnoses and treatments. The book is of particular interest because our colleagues at Groopman's institution, the Harvard Medical School, have evidenced a long-standing interest... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
In his chapter "Manufacturing: Lowering Boundaries, Improving Productivity" from the book The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution: Brookings Task Force on the Internet, HBS professor Andrew McAfee, discusses how the... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
more," he said. "With book printing, one single person could reach, at least theoretically, everybody. "Today, with the Internet, everybody can reach everybody any time at any place. The individual is a content provider and... View Details
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
Right, a new book by HBS research associate Gorick Ng. Educated during the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, the class of 2021 concludes an unusual academic experience only to face an unsteady global economy. Ng’s View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
reported to capital markets and to tax authorities. A useful blueprint for reform would include a) moving to a territorial regime unencumbered by excessive complexity, b) a considerably lower tax rate in the range of 18-20 percent, c) better alignment of View Details
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
book Redefining Health Care, published in 2006, Michael Porter and Elizabeth Olmstead Teisberg argued that the health care system should be reworked to focus on creating value for the patient. Since then, they have been collaborating with... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
leads the largest megachurch in the United States, has written more than 20 books.) Writing books is an institutional act," said coauthor Marvin Washington, an associate professor at the University of Alberta. "It's the pastor's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
themselves don't think deeply about consumers' innermost thoughts and feelings. Marketing Metaphoria is a groundbreaking book that reveals how to overcome this "depth deficit" and find the universal drivers of human behavior so... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
Amazon stimulates sales by its listing of thousands of books that would otherwise be out of print, given their meager sales through traditional channels. Internet technology and supply chain efficiencies have made this possible. The... View Details