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- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
movement. When other thoughts intrude, dismiss them and return to the repetition. That’s all there is to it. This can be combined with moderate exercise or View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
depth, and accessibility—it has become clear it is key to helping companies develop sustainable competitive advantage. “The new attention being given to data today is because... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
the globalization of firms on female career employment opportunities, remain hardly explored. Debate must be joined. 4. Businesses and the Environment. This journal is proud to have published pioneering... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
a national system of higher education, and new sets of civil and criminal codes were all established during the reforms of the late Qing and Republican eras. Much of this would be swept away, quickly and almost casually, by the new... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 11 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits
transforming how work is done and how people are paid for it. This heightened tension between moral and material goals may be nowhere as intense as it is in journalism, a field with strong ethical... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
When lawyers fare better than inventors and entrepreneurs where U.S. patents are concerned, you know injustice is being done. The current system makes patents easier to acquire, sure, but renders them less... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
Obtaining an image from the Internet is as easy as right-clicking and downloading. We’ve all done it—or, ahem, know someone who has. We rarely think about who created these images or whether we have the rights View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
American business are plainly visible for the whole world to see, Mills warned. Repairing the infrastructure is critically important to restore trust in American business, and tinkering with the rulebook is... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
Seventeen years after the dawn of social media marketing, this medium continues to be an intriguing puzzle—a place where brands are investing more time and money, but are still struggling View Details
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
Apple's experience with the iPhone teach us in this regard? A: Apple has been masterful in recognizing that a lot of innovation in regard to potential applications for the iPhone and iTouch could and should View Details
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
prepare don't come true. What can be done about this challenge? Maree Conway has one prescription: "...organizations have no mainstream way of thinking about the future of their organization, and then... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)
target’s beliefs by giving a false or distorted impression. But it’s not just businesspeople who palter. Donald Trump has done it. Hillary (and Bill) Clinton, too. Chances are you have paltered. “People seem View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do
completed, need not detract from productivity if it’s done right,” Amabile says. For managers concerned that offering such activities might lead to distraction or procrastination, they can View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
(like 2008) but a depression (like the 1930s.) Accordingly, we must be prepared to act in ways we’ve never done before. Second, just as doctors in overburdened hospitals, we... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
serious leaders are men and women who are animated by a big, honorable mission, who get things done to achieve that mission, who demonstrate consistent emotional awareness as they do this, who motivate... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
of science return are large enough to offset the far larger number of unmanned missions that could be run for the same money. Personally, I think lots more work can be View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
They may still be working from home, but they’re working from home in those cities. Gazette: Why does inventory remain so low across the country, and can anything be done View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
tell you that you don’t have to be stuck here. You don’t have to let the worst thing you’ve done define who you are. You can change your life.’”... View Details
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School, and Mike Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at HBS, experts in scheduling and in inspections, respectively. “The more inspections you have View Details