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- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
mainstream business. Q: There had to be some good things you learned by looking at dot-coms, even those that went out of business, and their cultures. A: Many people are skeptical. In fact, a lot of people are putting their business suits... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
Mainstream churches, meanwhile, were not benefiting from the distanced relationship, and indeed were ceding ground to secular spirituality and its offshoots from New Age crystals to personal empowerment. How to bridge the Sunday-Monday... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
then they'll eat better." But behavioral economics suggests that people make mistakes in their thinking. For example, we have self-control problems that can lead us to knowingly "misbehave." Such biases are the bread and butter of behavioral economics, and have been... View Details
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
If they try to lock it down, it will actually hurt them and keep their own efforts away from the mainstream on where research on machine learning is going. They get the benefit of other people using it and improving it. Facebook and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
internal upheaval or violence. And, Abdelal contends, mainstream nationalists in Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine in the first post-Soviet decade had nearly identical ideologies and foreign policy goals. For nationalists in all three... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
annually and continues to grow, according to the Wall Street Journal. These bonds are purchased by portfolio investors. Even the real estate industry's leading trade group, the Urban Land Institute, sees resilience-modeling and adaptation investments as View Details
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
technologies, thereby leading to the development of a constituency of physicians around each technology. For example, when angioplasty entered mainstream use in the 1980s, most hospitals that already had cardiac surgery programs felt that... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
actions any more than you'd let them dictate yours." As a result, Wheeler is skeptical about one-size-fits-all negotiation strategies. An approach that succeeds in one context could be disastrous in another. That makes him equally critical of the two View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
authority has been longstanding, albeit at the margins of scholarly and practitioner attention. Recently, however, organizational experiments in radical decentralization have gained mainstream consideration, giving rise to a need for new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
What is missing in mainstream political debate? And what do you envision as a more effective position for the United States given current world conditions? A: American political debate is increasingly dominated by hype, exaggeration, and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
have a few implications for companies. For one thing, brands should take note that the way in which consumers signal status has changed in the last century, and many people these days applaud original products over mainstream choices.... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
anticipate that blogging and user-generated video would become mainstream phenomena within a few years. Because it turned a blind eye to these black swans and big trends, Speed Trap assumed that market shares would remain stable in key... View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
of press. Proponents hail them as "flat" environments that foster flexibility, engagement, productivity, and efficiency. Critics say they're naive, unrealistic experiments. We argue, using evidence from a multi-year research agenda at several View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
indication that experimental research is becoming more mainstream is the fact that a number of faculty who are not primarily experimentalists use the CLER, including HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. The Tipping Point To explain this surging... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
A year of COVID-19 limbo has turned the notion of self-care into a mainstream pursuit. After all, with the pandemic’s end on the distant horizon, we all just need to hang in there a little longer—even CEOs. Earlier this month, we looked... View Details
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
compensate him. The song was called "United Breaks Guitars." Within one week it received 3 million views and mainstream news coverage followed, with CNN, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, the CBS Morning Show, and many other print... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
disciplines which develop their own norms and conventions about interesting research questions and how to answer them. For several decades mainstream academic historians, especially those based in the United States, have devoted almost no... View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
and even remade as movies have come to dominate mainstream media content. At media giant Sony, Ken Munekata, CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), and Atsushi Fukuda, President of Sony Digital Entertainment (SDE), are attempting to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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 acting upon their insights....... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
traces the evolution of the Internet from government ownership to privatization to the commercial Internet we know today. This is a story of innovation from the edges. Greenstein shows how mainstream service providers that had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne