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- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
have observed it in operation. Familiarity breeds contempt. Julie commented, “So, at how many companies have American workers been rounded up, coerced into training their replacements, then terminated? This is not supplementing our... View Details
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
report violations when they observe them, so they are actually violating their ethics code by not reporting violations,” Soltes says. Companies have good reason to try and change that. For starters, firms that have an effective compliance... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
examples. The internment of German employees/nationals in India offers a new way of showing that events as dramatic and disruptive as World Wars I and II can also have nuanced, more granular impacts, observes Giacomin. She suggests... View Details
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
them. It is a challenge because only you can observe what you want, and others may not want the same thing. My trick has always been to assume (often wrongly) that my desires are shared with most people in the world. That’s why I’m always... View Details
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
wage disparity, which is more a symptom than a cause of the larger problem. These discussions often elicit an observation that, in many developed economies, too many workers can't live on the money they make. For whatever... View Details
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
that need to be built in India and throughout Asia, Africa, and South America; the research will draw from our observations of how these lessons fit in the framework of infrastructure and urbanization. I'm here to look at the roads, the... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
thinks they are important). The topic has reached the pages of the McKinsey Quarterly, especially its January issue, where Peter Bregman observes that "you can't get everything done, even if you follow the right system." He... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
newer reviews are more accurate about current conditions.] Moreover, they don't account for observable patterns in the way individuals rate restaurants." Luca's team decided to try to develop what they believed would be an optimal way to... View Details
- 03 Nov 2011
- What Do You Think?
The Ultimate Question in Management
this type was proposed by Pete DeLisi: "Do you make your people feel like they want to be a better man or woman?" Favorite "ultimate" questions that managers could ask of their reports included several adherents to "Do you trust your... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
Kay puts it, "The mistake is to make inferences about the relationships between outcomes and processes when we cannot observe and do not understand the processes themselves." The argument is that those things that contribute to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
the mark. "Microsoft can innovate faster than your life can change," Christensen observed dryly. The only thing we know for sure is that nobody knows the right strategy as the disruption takes root.—Clayton M. Christensen When... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
businesses can benefit from working for a company and observing how the company sets prices and adjusts to market changes. "One of the biggest destroyers of wealth is somebody who starts a business too soon, without the proper... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
visit out to Biscayne National Park in Florida, to observe the team in action, and work with a few community groups. I learned way too much about shipwrecks all over the country. It was truly an unforgettable three months. Did I walk away... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 27 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Driving India's EV Future: Insights from Ather Scooter and Exponent Energy
technology that can charge a vehicle to 85% in 15 minutes. Their focus is primarily on commercial vehicles (CVs), a segment that represents 10% of India's vehicles but consumes 70% of the energy used in mobility. During our visit, we attended a presentation by their... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
loaded term, but essentially what we’re talking about is how a company can create a culture where an employee feels comfortable telling a boss, “Oh, I just observed that no one is wearing a helmet in the factory. Maybe we should change... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Q&A: John Quelch
exploration has involved meetings with forty HBS faculty members involved in a wide variety of research endeavors. "If Harvard Business School only knew what Harvard Business School knows," Quelch observes with a wry smile. "There is so... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
partnership that has remained strong through three start-ups. Dubinsky and Hawkins built Palm Computing and made the PDA the most rapidly adopted consumer electronics product at that time. "The PalmPilot grew out of failure," observes... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
the time that as far as the Internet was concerned, the government was not involved. That observation intrigued me. Later, I listened to a conversation between two FIBS historians regarding the enclosure movement in England between the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
observes Steve Nelson (MBA ’88), executive director of the MBA Program. “In that time, Spangler has become so much a part of the fabric of the HBS community. We had 32 buildings spread across a 40-acre campus, but no central space for... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
categories were set by a strict rotation scheme, thereby mitigating the potentially confounding effect that they targeted only "hot" technology sectors. Prizes encouraged competition and medals were more important than monetary awards. The boost to innovation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel