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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
resulted over time in one of the most vibrant and highly regarded alumni networks anywhere. Aside from their sheer volume (at present, a total of 300 pages per issue) and scope (current copy provided by 853 class and section... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
the ideas in High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage. Says Beer, "CEOs of HCHP companies think very differently about their employees. They see them as an asset and care about them as people." As a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
entrenched interests are going to resist and regulators are too slow to catch up,” she says. But Kanter calls financial results a “lagging indicator” of a company’s health. “They tell you what you’ve just... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
example, Pilgrim commented that the need for leadership is highly overrated. “We build structures with a slot at the top and the result is an implied need for leadership.” If our organizations were more fashioned like a networks,... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
distortions that may result as interest groups or politicians seek to direct the public programs in a manner that benefits them. While the most dramatic effects are seen in the U.S., this is a global problem. The patent system has many... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
least four consecutive years of top financial performance or have led a business or service that changed the way people live and work. Our previous book, In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century, shows that... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
of trade finance terms is shaped by the risk that an importer defaults on an exporter and by the possibility that an exporter does not deliver goods as specified in the contract. The empirical results indicate that cash in advance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
deep financial distress and had no choice but seek a foreign partner. Ghosn, who had never worked in Japan but had extensive experiences in other parts of the world, motivated the middle management at Nissan and transformed the culture of... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Web
Latin America - Global Activities 2020
Roth have overlapping research interests in financial inclusion and entrepreneurial constraints in the developing world. They have forged a collaboration during the past two years that is leading to meaningful View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
everything away from you except your education. I spent 20 years in the financial markets in Brazil, in a very exciting period in its history. By the time I was 52, I still had work to do, and I was fascinated by the idea of education.... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
snack his company produces from the potatoes grown on the very farm featured in the movie. While not a single package of Terra Chips graced the screen, the company’s behind-the-scenes financial, marketing, and distribution support of the film nonetheless View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
IBM PCs in advance of their market introduction. We used Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets, and we proudly whipped out our HP 12C calculators with their vast array of financial and statistical functions (which we mostly didn’t need but still... View Details
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
researchers asked board members what activities they thought their boards were good at. Technology and innovation ranked 17th and 18th, with only 42 percent of board members listing their handling of those issues above average—far below the proportion ranking of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Women on Boards: How Lara Druyan and Ann Lucena Are Shaping the Future of Corporate Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
Race, Gender and Equity at Work Race, Gender and Equity at Work Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author HBS Staff Topics Topics Board Diversity RGE Blog Filters Read posts from Author HBS Staff Topics Topics Board... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
administrator and financial manager for pediatric medical services at Massachusetts General Hospital. Then, in 1989, came an opportunity with UNICEF. “It was the perfect match with my interests and experience,” she says. “Doing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
the norm for health care than the exception. They may not have ever taken a management course, despite the challenge of overseeing dozens of employees across a variety of functions. They’re responsible for their unit’s financial... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
sold, inventory, and gross margin (defined here as the ratio of sales to cost of goods sold) as three endogenous variables. We construct a simultaneous equations model, estimated using public financial and non-financial data, to provide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
my parents have progressed to the nursing home of their retirement community, I cherish our memories of happy times together when they were more mobile. I realize that as a small business owner, working less may result in less business,... View Details
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
more emergent process that aims to discover whether there is any market to be served in the first place. Applying a uniform "best-practice" process to all development efforts ignores the major differences between these projects and may View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne