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- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
yuri_arcurs Recent research shows for the first time that diversity in venture capital firms not only spawns creativity and alternative viewpoints, but also improves financial performance. Paul Gompers, Eugene Holman Professor of Business...
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- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
thousands of hackers who flock to the cracks found in existing network architecture daily. Results may include leaked emails, drained bank accounts, and the destruction of production facilities (as Iranian...
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by James Heskett
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
last project was completed in the 1960s, when California had a much smaller population, with much smaller bank accounts. Woolf Farming & Processing—along with thousands of other farmers—relies on this aging infrastructure. Stuart...
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- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
with outspoken banking executives, argued that, “Silence may be both a more eloquent statement and a more intelligent one ” CEOs and other high-profile people “do a service by...
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by James Heskett
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
the end is better products and services. According to Bob DeNoble, "... information is a tool to help get the real work done. It enables us to produce food, clothing, and shelter, run our transportation...
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by James Heskett
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
General Motors was moving toward its vision of zero emissions and zero accidents by investing in electrified, shared, and autonomous vehicles. And while Wells Fargo was...
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by George Serafeim
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
opportunities and substantial returns on investment of the kind suggested by some are years, perhaps even decades, away. It will require not only caution but also a great deal of patience as barriers to economic development are lowered....
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by James Heskett
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
good thing not to have any privacy policy,” John says. It’s almost as if you had the choice of two banks in a sketchy neighborhood, one with bulletproof glass and one without. For their last experiment, the...
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- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
apples" at this point? Specifically, what kind of evidence, in addition to that described above, would you try to obtain in order to insure that our graduate schools of business grant the MBA to those in whom society View Details
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by James Heskett
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
A pall hangs over Sochi. Not since the bribery scandal overshadowed the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City has an Olympic Winter Games been so fraught with controversy. Fears of a terrorist attack by Islamic extremists; outrage over Russia's anti-gay laws; difficulties with...
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- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
big bucks in the minds of most consumers. We see similar efforts by magazines that advertise their low per-issue prices or insurance companies that break the cost of their premiums down to a low, per-day cost. All these efforts are...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
theories and developing new ones. Q: Professor Josh Lerner recently published an article ["Boom and Bust in the Venture Capital Industry and the Impact on...
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