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  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

choices around success. In addition to the moral difficulties that are posed by celebrity's narcissism and materialism, there are seeds of self-destruction in the celebrity approach to high achievement. Many people and organizations under... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

corporations have it in their power to become the world's most effective means for reducing poverty—George C. Lodge The success of a DaimlerChrysler project in Brazil's poverty-stricken northeast provides a particularly good example of... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
  • 04 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

unresponsive or inefficient system? A: I think there is a big 3 here, an iron triangle, and those are the hospitals, the insurers, and the government. They want power. It's very understandable. Everybody wants to be powerful, and the way they will be View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

considerations into account when planning Colbun's future, especially in the light of new opportunities and challenges posed by global climate change. The case analyzes the Chilean electricity sector and the operations of Colbun to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

that the open-end and regulatory features that a mutual fund poses to many successful strategies implemented in other contexts. In addition, it gives students the ability to calculate and interpret various horizons of correlations between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

You Make It Published: September 20, 2010 Nervous about an upcoming presentation or job interview? Holding one's body in "high-power" poses for short time periods can summon an extra surge of power... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

changing the constraints under which firms operate. Are there changes that would make it easier for business to contribute to the public good? Would these kinds of shifts be desirable or would they have unexpected side effects? And second, she View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

propose a market rule that avoids excessive fragmentation while almost achieving social efficiency, and we argue that implementation of this rule is feasible despite the limited powers of central authorities. We also offer a framework for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious institutions, elites, and attachments, this book problematizes the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709426 The Power to Persuade, Abridged Harvard Business School Note 809-037 This note develops and explains a five-part framework for persuading others to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

As a polarizing US presidential election nears, moderating controversial content on social media poses a pressing problem for tech giants. But no matter how many employees they hire, lines of code they write, or new content policies they... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology
  • 10 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 10

collective creativity and insight. These two divergent perspectives pose a paradox that has held the attention of scholars for many years. In response, researchers have marshaled evidence to specify the conditions under which diversity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

customers are habitually more satisfied than others. An empirical investigation of the satisfaction of 149,389 customers surveyed by J.D. Power and Associates over a five-year period provides evidence that these customer-level differences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

managed, not just to survive the crisis it faced in the early 1990s, but to reposition the company to lead the industry. The powerful lesson from the IBM story is that innovation is not a side business to running the real business.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

Overall, the findings demonstrate the power of non-financial rewards to motivate agents in settings where there are limits to the use of financial incentives. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/NoMarginNoMission_JPubE.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 27

ordinary managers. In The Innovator's DNA, the authors identify five capabilities demonstrated by the best innovators: (1) Associating: drawing connections between questions, problems, or ideas from unrelated fields; (2) Questioning: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2012
  • What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

The challenges Big Data pose for managers include "identifying which data are relevant" (Subrata Chakraborty) and "seeing through the woods to know what to use and what not" (Pieter J de Beer). Scott Waller expressed the fear that "the... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

other national and local government agencies might the firm target? On the civil side, the resurgence of the salience of nuclear power generation in the mid 2000s had appeared to be good news for Babcock with its long-standing nuclear... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

that only large enterprises could attempt. IBM, for instance, has created a nonprofit partnership, World Community Grid, through which any organization or individual can donate unused computing power to research projects and see what is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

Simons. By posing these provocative questions, you identify critical gaps in your strategy execution processes, focus on the most important choices you must make, and understand what's at stake in each one. In this concise guide, Simons... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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