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  • 18 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

Harvard Business School says. As part of a sweeping executive order aimed at promoting competition in the American economy, US President Joe Biden specifically called out non-compete agreements as hurtful to innovation and workers. Issued... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

to the emerging literature on open and distributed innovation by demonstrating the value of openness, at least narrowly defined by disclosing problems, in removing barriers to entry to non-obvious individuals. We also contribute to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Curriculum - Business & Environment

company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change. Additionally, the course will benefit those who wish to lead or advise firms on transitioning their operations and business models to... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

incubated, and maintained. What is clear, however, is that for the industry to recover, restaurants must incorporate health and safety measures into a hospitable environment, staffed by well-trained and appropriately incentivized... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • Web

Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

the committee has steadily broadened its purview, now advising on a broad range of issues including innovation and acquisitions in addition to labor practices and resource sustainability. A close examination of Nike's experience has led... View Details
  • 05 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

to an orthodoxy of capital controls in 1944 and then back again by 1994? How have such standards of appropriate behavior been codified and transmitted internationally? Contrary to conventional accounts, Abdelal argues that neither the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2011
  • What Do You Think?

So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

Summing Up Adaptability and commitment are complementary concepts, appropriate in different situations, over different time periods, and in response to different challenges. That's the general sense that one gets in reading over the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 28 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

which are the foundations for the successful implementation of whatever policies and practices are necessary to execute a given strategy; policies and practices that lead to a learning, innovative organization; measurement of the results... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

Diversity in the Workplace Harvard Business School Case 407-029 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407029 Information Technology and Innovation at Shinsei Bank Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Oct 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

Potential of Patient-Reported Outcomes By: Rotenstein, Lisa, Robert S. Huckman, and Neil Wagle Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53372 forthcoming Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 20

Michelle Dipp, MD, Ph.D, CEO and co-founder of OvaScience, had just received a buyout offer from PG Ventures, a private equity firm interested in acquiring the innovative fertility treatments company. The company's first promising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

industries—forget about across industries—in agreeing on what is appropriate. I don't think it's because they don't want to; it's because they have different values, which in the end come down to details: What is child labor? What types of factory jobs, if any, are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

shaking your head, so I have to ask, actively, if everything is OK. Q: What are you working on next? A: My next book is on leadership for innovation—on what kind of leadership is most appropriate if sustained breakthrough View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Jul 2023
  • News

Striving for Imperfection

And I don’t think that’s a good response. I think in fact, equilibrium isn’t coming. We’re actually in a fundamentally changed frame. In that world you have to figure out how to move forward. We like this idea of using a set of mindsets that help you gather the View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 07 May 2014
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

how the absolute can be changed. A few suggestions: appropriate education; socio-economic policies that foster the family unit; incentives for capital formation and application, health improvements, elimination of resource waste... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

its zero interest rate policy, which had been in place for years, and raise rates to 0.5%. The Bank of Japan was eager to increase them to more "normal" levels to exert effective monetary policy. Yet the appropriate timing and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery

Diversity Innovation Hub, a Mount Sinai venture addressing social and structural determinants of health in NYC. Recently, Ted was named an HBS Kaplan Fellow and RISE Fellow. While on my pediatrics rotation at a hospital in New York City,... View Details
  • 11 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

The chief-of-staff does not create strategy or operational tactics and has no authority or accountability for its execution. A chief-of-staff schedules the general's meetings, ensures that the appropriate people show up at the meeting,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 31 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

not appropriate for the team member); not providing enough clarity about an assignment; changing assignments or objectives too frequently; giving assignments that conflict with other management instructions); and (3) dealing with problems... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

down; that's good for the consumer's pocketbook as well as for those industries benefiting from low-priced materials or commodities. In addition, overcapacity often springs from innovation - an improved product muscles into the market... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons