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  • 26 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

What would Aristotle think about self-driving cars? As the abilities of artificial intelligence systems to automate complex tasks accelerate, warnings about the dangers of outsourcing life-and-death decisions to machines are pumping the... View Details
Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology
  • 17 Jun 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

human rights commission of the war-torn African country where he was raised. He systematically used the course material to criticize hypocrisy at the commission-as well as criticize himself for not having high enough standards. "I started to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 24 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

As the technology wave breaks over us, some think the Internet looks to many about to wash out the established order of everything from vacation booking to the nation-state itself. But hold on a minute, Debora Spar cautions. We've seen... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
  • Blog

Lessons from Jazz in the Live Online Classroom

designed to make virtual participants feel like they are in a real HBS classroom, thanks to a wall of life-sized screens, personal cameras for each screen, a team of off-camera engineers—and for this special session, a grand piano. An... View Details
  • July–August 2015
  • Article

Engineering Reverse Innovations: Principles for Creating Successful Products for Emerging Markets

By: Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan
Multinationals are starting to catch on to the logic of reverse innovation, in which products are designed first for consumers in low-income countries and then adapted into disruptive offerings for developed economies. But only a handful of companies have managed to do... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Emerging Markets
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    All Business is Local

    Today's business leaders are so obsessed with all things global and virtual that they risk neglecting the critical impact of physical place. It's a paradox of the Internet age: now that it's possible for businesses to be everywhere at once, they need to focus on... View Details

    • 28 Aug 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    How Can Decision Making Be Improved?

    Keywords: by Dolly Chugh, Katherine L. Milkman & Max H. Bazerman

      Cultural Entrepreneurship in NYC

      During weeklong January-term trips to New York City in 2013 and 2014, students from across Harvard University studied cultural entrepreneurship: new ventures in fashion, food, fine arts, and design. Students explored how such ventures are launched, and how proximity... View Details

      • 05 May 2003
      • What Do You Think?

      Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?

      percent of new products fail within five years ... To the extent that a few, well-chosen customers might provide valuable insights into what would improve the quality of life, Professor Zaltman's ideas might be just what marketing has been looking for..." A more... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 25 Apr 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

      impasse is developmentally necessary. The meaning of an impasse, although it's usually first expressed as a failure or in an internalized notion of inadequacy, is a request for us to change our way of thinking about ourselves and our... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 21 Feb 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

      wrong? In their article Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women's Leadership Development Programs, which appeared in the September 2011 issue of the Academy of Management Learning & Education, Ely and coauthors... View Details
      Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
      • 17 Jun 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: June 17, 2008

      organizational structure has become the norm in several industries, it has received little attention from academics and consultants. Garvin and Levesque set out to fill that gap in management thinking with their research. The authors... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 28 Mar 2023
      • Blog Post

      Meet Professor Elisabeth Paulson: A Conversation on Life, Research, and Teaching

      non-experts can similarly promote classroom learning by asking and answering questions. This creates a unique and supportive classroom culture. Your research focuses on data-driven policy making and the design of interventions for social... View Details
      • 30 Jul 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

      Unfair. Undignified. Inappropriate, unprofessional, distasteful—and most of all, repugnant. To the wonder and surprise of Alvin E. Roth, a Harvard economist, these harsh words are often hoisted to describe an important task of his: View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 22 Apr 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?

      female grads take time out from the workforce at some point in their careers, she said. Her program, Charting Your Course, was designed to assist many alumnae who have taken time off to either raise families or pursue other options more... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 10 Nov 2008
      • What Do You Think?

      How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

      customers if we give something back, even if that something is a sense of belonging just look at this forum to see it in action." As Jacoline Loewen put it, "Even if a company does not want customers involved in their business View Details
      Keywords: by Jim Heskett
      • 25 Aug 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: August 25

        Working PapersAnger and Regulation Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Juan DubraNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15201, August 2009 Abstract We propose a model where voters experience an emotional cost when they observe a firm that has displayed insufficient concern for other... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 25 Jul 2006
      • Working Paper Summaries

      A Gentler Capitalism: Black Business Leadership in the New South Africa

      Keywords: by Linda A. Hill & Maria Farkas; Communications; Telecommunications
      • 16 Nov 1999
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

      A member of the Executive Education staff spoke recently with HBS Professors Michael Tushman and Charles O'Reilly, developers of the program Leading Change and Organizational Renewal. In that discussion they describe their thinking about... View Details
      Keywords: by Staff
      • 22 Jan 2018
      • Blog Post

      HBS Peek: Finding a Sense of Purpose

      enriching the way I think and act on a daily basis. Moving forward, I know I will always carry with me the purpose to create, the purpose to motivate, and the purpose to engage. Create Within my Peek cohort, I connected with a melting pot... View Details