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- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
cost performance of IT technologies over the first forty years changed by roughly 107, and for the foreseeable future will continue to evolve at the same rate. That is in sharp contrast to a train, which after eighty years moved six times... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales,” “a parasitic economic logic,” “a rogue mutation of capitalism marked by concentrations of wealth,” “as... View Details
- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
mission. Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd is an excellent example of a level-four leader. Under his watch HP's stock price more than doubled, but he decimated the infrastructure and intellectual seed corn (R&D) of the company to... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
- 04 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
made at hotels if Airbnb wasn't an option. The San Francisco-based home-sharing platform still made its mark on the hotel industry, however. The researchers found that Airbnb's growth through 2014 reduced hotel variable profits View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
Some events mark a generation. If a marker is a source of deep learning about ourselves, as Malcolm Salter believes it is, then the Enron crisis is exactly that for business people. Political scientists have the Bay of Pigs; engineers... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
than those who dress conventionally. “You're saying, 'I'm so autonomous and successful that I can afford to dress in a nonconforming way'” Think Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in his hoodie, or the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs in black... View Details
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
of management became a central focus. This organizational narcissism not only produced the Enron effect, but it cost managers a front-row seat in a changing society marked by the dramatically different... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
By 1910, however, with the new name Madam C.J. Walker, Breedlove had accrued a sizable fortune and considerable influence. This daughter of adversity was now well known and respected among the nation's African Americans as a savvy... View Details
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
modern building in Evanston, Illinois, marked by its expansive views of Lake Michigan. In passing, I mentioned that I had become a vegetarian. Someone in the audience made a comment in which he referred to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- April 2020 (Revised October 2020)
- Case
Unilever's Response to the Future of Work
By: William R. Kerr, Emilie Billaud and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej
In February 2020, Nick Dalton, executive vice president HR business transformation at Unilever, reflected on the changing nature of work marked by rapid advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation. Launched in 2016, Unilever’s Future of Work... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Human Capital; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Transformation; Human Resources; Consumer Products Industry; Europe
Kerr, William R., Emilie Billaud, and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej. "Unilever's Response to the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Case 820-104, April 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
Sometimes a little push like that is all employees need to get out of a rut. About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: Mark Kostich] Related Reading Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril Knowledge Transfer: You... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Article
Unhealthy Consumerism: The Challenge of Trading Off Price and Quality in Healthcare
By: Kate Barasz and Peter A. Ubel
Over the last decade, healthcare in many parts of the world has shifted toward a more patient-centric, consumeristic model, marked by an emphasis on choice and a proliferation of typical consumer-facing information (e.g., price and quality data). However, while the... View Details
Keywords: Medical Decision-making; Choice; Health Care and Treatment; Quality; Price; Consumer Behavior; Decision Making
Barasz, Kate, and Peter A. Ubel. "Unhealthy Consumerism: The Challenge of Trading Off Price and Quality in Healthcare." Behavioural Public Policy 2, no. 1 (May 2018): 41–55.
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
the rest of the organization.” Regarding hiring, Mark reminded us that “Simply addressing the numbers is short-sighted and often can lead to significant damage to an organization. People brought in as ‘diversity hires’ can be seen View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors
By: Thales S. Teixeira and Peter Jamieson
While the Internet's first wave of disruption was marked by the unbundling of digital content, the second wave, decoupling, promises to generate more casualties in an even broader array of industries. Digital start-ups are disrupting traditional businesses by inserting... View Details
Teixeira, Thales S., and Peter Jamieson. "The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-031, October 2014.
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
reduction, there is a long way to go from lowering tax rates to introducing a flat tax in the U.S. or in Western Europe. This would require a change of attitude in countries marked by a substantial history... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
only on paper.” There were several criticisms of the fact that the research identified correlations, not causes. Norman Toy made the point by stressing the especially mischievous nature of the use of correlation in this case. In his... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
the limits of attempts by outside governments to improve business and political conditions in other countries. Answering them, however, required a long and detailed romp through the history of US involvement with what Secretary of War... View Details
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
of the graduates." Lisa Marks Dolan, a business school dean, feels that much of the problem lies in the way teachers are trained. She writes, "We're being asked to produce graduates who can integrate, adapt, manage global... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
focused on leadership, organizational behavior, managing human capital, and career management. His new book, Teaching by Heart: One Professor’s Journey to Inspire, was recently published by Harvard Business... View Details