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- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
put it, “Remember, if you lose personal liberty and privacy, you lose everything. Be very careful what you would wish for in the cause of ‘national interest’.” Commenting that it requires some subtlety to get this balance between security and privacy right, Jim Dyer... View Details
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
booms, we have seen the impositions of tougher standards by venture capitalists when examining whether to fund or refinance companies, a decrease in the valuations assigned to these firms, and a slowing of the frenetic pace of investment.... View Details
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
Summing Up Is "identity" a victim of competitiveness? A recent study of organizational behavior published by Timothy Kieningham and Lerzan Toksoy shows that employees' perceptions of their employers' levels of commitment to them... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
several decision points. At the 7-minute mark of trading, each firm decides whether to invest in clean technology, which ultimately could save the company money by reducing emissions, but comes with up-front... View Details
- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
you may find some people getting a [compensation] discount they don’t deserve.” Don’t try to hide the past The researchers have also produced several business cases examining what executives who have found themselves nicked by a black... View Details
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
In a well-marked line from the movie The Social Network, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turns to the Winklevoss twins, who are suing him for stealing their invention, and says: "If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd... View Details
- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
constraints, Stephenson believed a digital world could be truly limitless. Chatter about the metaverse peaked in late 2021, almost three decades after Stephenson’s novel was published, when Mark Zuckerberg announced he would build the... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
high tech community about social issues and the use of its technology. Senior executives of Apple, Tesla, Google, Uber, and Cisco, among others, already had spoken out about the treatment of migrants. A collection, led by View Details
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
At a recent Harvard Business School conference, dozens of CEOs committed to the idea of working toward "higher-ambition" goals that go beyond just short-term shareholder value. Inspired by the book Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
conclusion after studying research published between 1958 and 2001. Their findings were recorded in their paper "Social Issues and Management: Our Lost Cause Found," published by the Journal of Management, December, 2003. View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
One day in 1966 while Ranjan Kapur was walking in midtown Manhattan, a black limo pulled up alongside. A man he instantly recognized as advertising icon David Ogilvy, founder of the agency where Kapur had recently been hired, stepped out and greeted him View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
perceived them to be extremely efficient. At the same time, large work organizations destabilized extended family and community relations: first, by removing individuals from their family and community and placing them in factories for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
path between the traditional top-down, inside-the-tent corporate structure and unbridled license to suppliers to do as they want. Marked by high levels of direction and support, this approach offers... View Details
- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
government incentives to bolster their arguments. This view was characterized by Mark Townsend Cox, who commented, "I can count almost twenty methods of creating electricity without burning something,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
We’ve Now Been Asking “What Do You Think?” for 20 Years
This month marks the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of my “What do you think?” column. The Working Knowledge website was the brainchild of a faculty and staff committee organized in 2000 by then Dean... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
and other types of data are still locked away from Internet users. It's really going to be about great execution.— Mark Kroese, MSN "Rather than leave someone behind, the approach we at Google take is, 'Let's make all that... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
of Leading Innovation, was written by Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, with Greg Brandeau, former CTO of The Walt Disney Studios and current COO/president of Media Maker; Emily Truelove, a PhD candidate... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
pay-for-performance plans in the early 1990s. Within three years, all had dropped them. In a recent talk to HBS faculty and in two working papers, which he co-authored with Nancy Katz and Mark D. Cannon, respectively, Beer explained why... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers
for competitors. Tesco’s Stumble into the US MarketUK retailer Tesco was very successful penetrating foreign markets—until it set its sights on the United States. What Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn About Crisis Leadership from StarbucksWhile... View Details