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03 Oct 2018
What Do You Think?

How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?

included in what is going on. There is a lot of advice for managers about how to promote inclusion in an organization. Laura Sherbin and Ripa Rashid remind us as leaders to practice inclusion on an everyday basis by “ensuring that team... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

The corporate histories of Apple, Coca-Cola, and Honda are well-documented stories that offer a window into the nuances of business in a particular place, at a particular time. As such, they're invaluable resources for research that... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

28 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 28

net social welfare remains inconclusive. We end by outlining challenges facing research in this area and propose an agenda for better modeling costs and benefits of financial regulation. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

HBS professor emeritus George C. Lodge's idea of a World Development Corporation has been percolating for years—he wrote a seminal article on the proposal in Foreign Affairs in 2002 (reprinted on HBS Working... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Harness Auction Fever

Internet Auctions" currently in press in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Malhotra says the research carries lessons for business people who bid on everything from services to new employees.... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Web Services; Technology

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

enacting the rule, which it has been mulling for years. In October 2013, the SEC posted a request for comment on the idea of pay ratio disclosure. Subsequently, the agency... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

01 May 2000
What Do You Think?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

Berglund, from whom I might have expected as much as one of my former students, asked whether I was asking the right question. He proposed what was for him the real question: "Does it make sense to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

of the most common ways that managers unwittingly undermine daily progress is by failing to make timely decisions or provide clear, consistent goals. Here's an example from a work diary in a consumer products company: Had meetings [ ] to discuss how to reposition our... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 May 2009
What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

"boundaries" that form when organizations grow that present the "potential for clashes and struggle." Bob Brown attributed it to "risk aversion combined with lack of vision, drive, and prescience View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

21 May 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals

of their classmates by posting requests for help with concepts they don't understand. Their peers are given credit for reaching out to answer the call. The course will further... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

actions and motives are constantly under scrutiny. Time to manage your own professional image before others do it for you. An interview with Laura Morgan Roberts. Music Downloads: Pirates-or Customers? Published: June 21, 2004 Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing

after Macmillan indicated it would begin setting higher consumer prices for e-books than Amazon's standard charge of $9.99 for new releases. Amazon capitulated after a few days: Under Macmillan's new terms,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Entertainment & Recreation

14 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

"reinvent the phone." Yet both the device and the mobile service provided by AT&T involved limitations that could hinder the long-term prospects for the iPhone. At the same time, handset makers and other mobile carriers had... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

consultant at McKinsey and for Treasury Secretary Larry Summers for six years before joining Google at 32. When she and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began working together in 2007, Sandberg View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

The center approached Alessi, a medium-sized tableware company in Italy, at the request of professors Youngme Moon and Gail McGovern for a case in the Consumer Marketing MBA elective. Working through... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

13 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

sense to be diversified than it used to in the past, since, at the end of the day, all markets are moving together,” says Luis Viceira, George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

and AIDS exert such power to wreck communities and companies that they should almost be viewed as a metaphor for "disruptive technology" along the lines of the model proposed by HBS Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

resignation rates are through the roof. Additionally, there are jobs which have "bad hygiene," by which we mean they are demanding, low paid, and provide few prospects for advancement. Some companies and industries are taking a hard look... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

policies, and identity politics. In San Jose, many women were elected to political positions. As state governments cut funding for schools, they turned to Silicon Valley firms for philanthropy,... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

attempts, until a change in government in 1984 resulted in a state proposal to pay off the owners and allocate the land to the squatters. Each owner was given the option of accepting the deal or suing to obtain higher compensation. By... View Details