Meaning - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

construction of blackness has been an economic tool for centuries; it has been used as a means of sourcing under- or wholly unpaid labor, rationalized by an attribution of blacks’ biological inferiority. Though research has since amassed... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

13 May 2014
Op-Ed

The Alibaba Effect

markets. The commercial opportunities supported by the extraordinary Internet and emerging logistics structure in China means that Alibaba's future lies at home. It has huge market growth potential, real heft against local opponents, and... View Details

Keywords: by Bill Kirby & Warren McFarlan; Retail

16 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs

are a number of "chicken and egg" processes, or feedback loops here. I learned a saying in Chinese: "You can catch big fish in murky water." That means that the big fish are hiding when the water is clear, or they have... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 May 2006
Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

skill matches, meaning that, for instance, a savvy cost-cutter was hired into a company where cost management would turn out to be the key driver of success. The other eleven constituted mismatches. When the strategic need matched the... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Building Communities as Well as Companies

Despite the uncertain climate for start-ups, launching a business continues to hold irresistible appeal for aspiring entrepreneurs. For many African-Americans, entrepreneurship is seen as a means of building community as well as personal... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

innovation and its deployment, but it did not mean the innovation should be scrapped. By performing a customer diagnostic, the company identified overserved customers in an adjacent market who were looking for "good enough"... View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

Martha Lagace: What is missing in leadership models today? Michael Beer: Most formal leadership models do not incorporate institution-building in their definition of leadership. Leadership is thought of as a means for activating change,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

professional and professor. Reliable innovation is "a weird concept," Austin admits. "Reliability in business is about things aimed at consistency of outcome. Reliable innovation means something more like a consistent... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

11 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

School, who coauthored the study. “[It] means not only that the pool of potential human capital for startup companies began declining when COVID started, but also that the quality of the pool has deteriorated,” he says. “The incumbent... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 May 2015
Research & Ideas

How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts

always applying the same kind of discipline and rigor in their analysis of projects. They simply liked a project and supported it, or didn't. "Overall, the general sense is that the projects that found success on Kickstarter were by no View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Recreation

01 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

When Do Alliances Make Sense?

good for the investment projects it is pursuing, and the solo firm is probably particularly good for its projects." But just because a firm decides to form an alliance in one case and not in another doesn't mean it's making the most... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities

02 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs

in part due to good timing seem to also do well in subsequent ventures. (By good timing we mean those entrepreneurs who founded a company in a given industry at a time when most new ventures did well: for example, microcomputer-related... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

When Protestors Knock at Your Door

increasing focus and intensity. In many cases, they are well-informed, well-organized and extremely passionate about advancing their cause." HBS Working Knowledge asked Spar and LaMure to elaborate on their research.Churchwell: What does it View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

05 Feb 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?

content ... [with] aggregation and interpretation of knowledge [as] ... their core competency," all of which gives them significant competitive advantages in the educational market. However, this doesn't mean that onsite programs can... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

procedures were analyzed. The mean operative time for bilateral reduction mammaplasty was 134 ± 34 minutes, with a mean operative experience of 11 ± 4.7 years and total resection volume of 1,680 ± 930 g.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

for download. Fair (and Not So Fair) Division Author:John W. Pratt Abstract Drawbacks of existing procedures are illustrated and a method of efficient fair division is proposed that avoids them. Given additive participants' utilities, each item is priced at the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage

mean that Portugal produced 70,000 gallons of wine and 50,000 yards of cloth, whereas England produced 46,667 gallons of wine and 45,000 yards of cloth. However, if each country devoted all 1,200 workers to its comparative advantage,... View Details

Keywords: Re: David A. Moss

07 Apr 2011
What Do You Think?

When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?

question actually 'Why'?" What is the public's role in a meltdown? What do you think? Original Article Over the past several years, we have witnessed a variety of "meltdowns," ranging from financial to nuclear. Although we can debate the View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

11 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?

we wanted to give consumers and citizens a deeper understanding of the marketing system, what it means for democratic society, and their power to influence it." Sean Silverthorne: In general, how does good marketing reinforce... View Details