- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
How should organizations juggle the need for the right skills as well as the right attitudes? What goes wrong when one or the other is missing? Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
Polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton is the subject of a new HBS case study. Professor Nancy F. Koehn discusses lessons for leaders from the voyage of the Endurance. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 28 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
It’s India Above China in New World Order
Can India overtake China? That's the title of an influential new article in Foreign Policy magazine. A Q&A with authors Yasheng Huang of MIT and Tarun Khanna of HBS. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer DataUse It
Don't blame your CRM technology. Be smarter about collecting and using your data, says Jean Ayers in this article from Harvard Management Update. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
When resources are scarce, you need a plan for managing your career, your team, and even your boss. Here's what works: balance, focus, and effective communication. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
Using the Balanced Scorecard approach, Robert S. Kaplan, of Harvard Business School, and David P. Norton analyze the four essentials of customer management: customer selection, acquisition, retention, and growth. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 07 Jul 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?
From airlines to professional services, is improvement in productivity always a good thing, especially right now? Is it the ultimate answer for foundering economies? Or will it increase the ranks of the unemployed? You decide. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
A surprising entity has emerged to protect the interests of open source software developers: the non-profit foundation. HBS professor Siobhán O'Mahony discusses this emerging organizational model. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
HBS professor Nitin Nohria along with William Joyce and Bruce Roberson studied 160 companies to look for common management practices that succeed. A hint: Business basics matter. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
B players are the heart and soul of top organizations, says HBS professor Thomas J. DeLong. Here’s why—and what you can do to manage B players better. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
Computer security isn’t just an IT headache, say HBS professor Robert D. Austin and co-author Christopher A.R. Darby. Here are eight to-do items for managers to protect their digital assets. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship
How do you turn short-term transactions into long-term relationships? Harvard Business School professor Narakesari Narayandas finds answers in mature industrial markets. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
Harvard Business School faculty Richard S. Tedlow, Alfred D. Chandler, Nancy F. Koehn, and Debora L. Spar discuss the different research paths they took leading to their most recent publications. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
In difficult times, organizational pathologies can cause a death spiral. Here’s how the CEO can win back the hearts and minds of staff, according to HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
A summary of papers written for the Globalization of Markets Colloquium. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate
Theodore Levitt’s work was outrageous—and outrageously smart. HBS professors Richard S. Tedlow and Rawi Abdelal put "The Globalization of Markets" in perspective. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
The global brand is a hard nut to crack. In a session devoted to these seemingly all-powerful brands, professors and practitioners exposed the fault lines. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
In an e-mail Q&A, HBS professor Josh Lerner discusses issues including transparency and private equity, buyout firms, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the role of VC on innovation. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
Operational problems are a drag on business and often can be traced to poor controls in interorganizational settings, says HBS professor V.G. Narayanan. Here are his suggestions for tightening up those controls. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
Why doesn’t the budget process work? Read what experts say about not only changing your budgeting process, but whether your company should dispense with budgets entirely. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.