One Concern - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 May 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Normally, the... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Sports

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

they do. Turf battles often result when each division is more concerned with protecting its own territory than with maximizing the value of the whole. A perverse hierarchy, one that rejects ideas from below,... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

communicate with and motivate its citizens to make them agents of change to a market-driven economy? —Jaime Fortuño (MBA 1988) MORE Brunell offers an inside look at Myanmar’s historic transition on our new Skydeck podcast MORE Brunell... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Next Normal

honest feedback on the group launch session—what they feel optimistic and concerned about. She asks each person about personal interests, what they considered their strengths to be, where they want to... View Details

01 Apr 2020
News

What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages

essay with the Washington Post, which published it on March 27. The concern about shortages of masks, ventilators, hospital gowns, and testing kits got me to thinking about the Vietnam War, when I was the... View Details

11 Mar 2020
News

Making It Rain

runway and nearly lost control of the plane. “I was more concerned about weather than anything else—malfunction, my own error, somebody shooting at me. Weather was the number one variable,” he says. His... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021

Suda Mayor, Onagawa Town Hands-On Learning Immersive Field Courses, offered for the first time in 2012, give second-year MBA students the opportunity to apply their learning hands-on with project partners across the globe for two weeks each January. Takeuchi’s decision... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Ask the Expert: A Fair Share

Rent out your house, your car, even your bike—are there any limits to what people will part with (and what regulators will allow) in the new sharing economy? We called on Shelby Clark (MBA 2010)—founder of the car-sharing service... View Details

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

certainly a cause for concern and something about which we should do something. But with one of the longest recoveries in history upon us, the US economy as a whole appears to still be in a growth mode. Our... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog

students. Many of you will be entrepreneurs building and working with a board of directors as you create and grow your company. Others will join private equity or venture capital firms where you will serve on the boards of the firm’s... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

School Ties

the National Math and Science Initiative to share its successful teacher development and advanced placement initiatives with hundreds of partners across the country. Formulating strategy. Concerned about the quality of his state's... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Feb 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

According to several research studies, one of the greatest concerns of those working significant amounts of time remotely is the “out of sight, out of mind” syndrome, especially when it comes to promotions... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2003
What Do You Think?

Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?

representing groups of investors, and from those in the U.S. and other countries—if at all representative—provide what is for me a rather sobering assessment of the future of these funds. At one end of the spectrum are the feelings... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?

often has as much to do with their relationships with one another as their concern for the company. "Boards are populated by living, breathing people who have their own interests, and understanding the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Dec 2021
News

The Sparkles in Our Skies

modern shoppers want is the sense of power and romance that has been associated with diamonds since the 15th century, but without the environmental and ethical concerns of mining. How to give them that is the $80 billion question for the... View Details

Keywords: April White; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the HBS campus for a two-day... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

02 Sep 2010
What Do You Think?

How Transparent Should Boards Be?

Summing Up The dilemma posed by the HP-inspired vignette of a CEO allegedly failing to adhere to company values divided respondents to the September column. Two schools of thought evolved. One was that the CEO should be fired for cause... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. "The world of business has been governed by an implicit leadership model," Beer explains. "With the exception of a minority of CEOs, however—those we interviewed and others like them—the purpose of the firm is defined by a single-minded... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

What is keeping you awake at night during this global pandemic? Over the past few weeks, we asked 600 CEOs that very question. Their responses were touching and instructive, but also daunting about the challenges leaders face at this moment of crisis. What keeps CEOs... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

01 Dec 2022
News

Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research

the BiGS Visiting Fellows Program, launched in April 2022, which draws to campus scholarly researchers who join the School for a year to work on specific projects—often partnering with HBS faculty—related to some of today’s most important... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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