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- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
by the Maoists. But the latest one at least seems to be holding up for now. Many peace agreements are brokered by a third country. Is that necessary? Under what conditions is that kind of agreement going to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Measuring Consumer and Competitive Impact with Elasticity Decompositions
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
Government officials should have poured much more money into producing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines to save more lives and rescue the economy faster, according to new research co-authored by 16 researchers including Harvard Business... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
how many customers are sold but by how many are served ” Doing so, he continued, requires business leaders to commit to operating within a set of principles that include honest, transparency, humility, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
successively by John Sculley, who was kicked out in 1993, Michael Spindler, fired in 1996, and Gil Amelio, a member of the board who took over from Spindler and was fired five hundred days later, the company was failing. Without going... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
contract.” Of course this leads to the question of whether or not this sort of thing can be contracted. Should boards specify limits on CEO activism? What do you think? Original Column A series of recent events triggered the question at... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Much
the winner, but many consumers would choose Target, the research suggests. "People's perception is that brands that sacrifice relatively more of their earnings seem more generous." The findings come as many companies—reassured by a... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
reimagined what it looks like in the online world, Anand said. HBX opted for active, edge-of-the-seat learning by including short video lectures and cases mapped out through videos in which people describe... View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
explain a little bit about your research in this area? Josh Lerner: By the end of World War II, the corporate research laboratory model was widely adopted in the United States. A corporation would have a centralized facility where it... View Details
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
causes of this disconnect between strategy and performance. We have learned that most organizations do not have a strategy execution process. Many have strategic plans, but no coherent approach to manage the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
Making the best international trading decisions may be as easy as taking a stroll around the local neighborhood. A recent research paper states that it's possible to predict whether a US firm will trade with any given country by studying... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest
Haas School of Business; and Christopher Palmer, also an assistant professor at Haas. “While most researchers have learned about QE by studying the reaction of the asset prices,” says Di Maggio, “we were... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
businesses over the long run: companies such as Tata Group, founded in India in 1868, or Mexican bakery Grupo Bimbo, started in 1945. What sets these firms apart? What can leaders in developed markets learn from them? In the recent... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922
knew of them. The first N.C.R. sales script was the creation of Patterson's brother-in-law Joseph H. Crane. "How I Sell National Cash Registers," which became known as the Primer, contained instructions not only on what salesmen should say, but also what they... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 17 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership
simply a question of doing their jobs even though the result—confinement as a POW—may not seem necessarily fair.” This insight is repeatedly endorsed by studies of survivors. Having a value system, a sense... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
so that they can lessen the negative public perception and media scrutiny,” Luo says. “We do see an increase in their likelihood of working with female writers after #MeToo, but much less so than female producers.” In fact, among... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 28 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
What's a Boss Worth?
people supervising teams. In part, that’s because it’s difficult to separate the performance of the boss from the performance of the individual workers he or she oversees. “Bosses may get lucky and have subordinates who can do their job... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
schools, as we argue in the book, do not teach integrity. By integrity we mean learning about (1) how different disciplines must be integrated with each other and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace