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- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
How to Prevent Them, Bazerman and Watkins recently collaborated on the following e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: What distinguishes a predictable surprise from any event seen with 20/20 hindsight? Max Bazerman...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
intimacy, and community offered by direct-to-consumer marketing will have an impact on every industry and intermediary," Deighton predicted. Supermarkets may have "dodged a bullet" for now, but direct-to-consumer marketing...
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- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
these processes are unfolding not just in the mainstream business sector but in society writ large and even in politics and civil society," says Khanna. Khanna's book Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours will be...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
therefore facilitates implementation," says Roberto, who teaches in the School's General Management unit. An e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge follows. Martha Lagace: Why should a leader be concerned when he or she hears...
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by Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
"When Values Backfire: Leadership, Attribution, and Disenchantment in a Values-Driven Organization." "Our research shows that values must be managed with care," Cha and Edmondson say. Below, they join forces for an e-mail Q&A with HBS Working...
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
unite partners' objectives for creating a flexible supply chain; benchmark performance against other retailers; and evaluate and manage new technologies. Raman and Fisher provide specific, detailed metrics and techniques that can be used View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
organization and its employees. Podolny, Khurana, and Hill-Popper collaborated on an e-mail interview to explain their latest research for HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: As you wrote in your working paper, the past century saw a...
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
key questions: In this particular market, which market institutions are working, and which institutions are missing? Which parts of our business model can be adversely affected by these institutional voids? How can we build competitive...
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by Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
Nova lived up to its moniker, nová meaning "new" in Czech and alluding as well to a bright star. Its wide array of programs provided a spicy alternative to the tired fare offered by the two prevailing state-run channels whose...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform
Enforcers of regulatory laws are making some headway, particularly since the passage last summer of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, but their work as a whole needs more teeth, according to panelists at the session on regulation and enforcement. The session was led View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
and interpreting data about industrial environment performance because it brings together information about companies' environmental management, provided voluntarily by managers in real time, with companies' pollution data from the U.S....
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- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
because they're driven by mutual funds or hedge funds and are rewarded in the short term. Long-term funders can expect to see more opportunities coming their way, he continued. According to moderator Josh Lerner, a Harvard Business School...
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- 28 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
It’s India Above China in New World Order
but, in general, China has discouraged or actively undermined local entrepreneurship in favor of an foreign direct investment-dependent approach, they say. India, on the other hand, is building an infrastructure—however slowly—that allows entrepreneurship and free...
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
is looking into how the framing of a negotiation can change the game. In one experiment, for example, it was shown that the amount of cooperation among participants was affected far more by what the game was called—whether the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
staff—all of this costs money, Frei said. Commerce Bank pays for it by paying lower rates on deposits compared to the giant banks. "Think about it," she told the group. "Would you trade half a percentage point on your...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
high turnover, waning commitment, missed recruiting goals, and officer retention nightmares. By studying the development of professional identity over time within the Army's career structure, we hoped to identify a conceptual leverage...
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Machiavelli, Morals, and You
the choices made by Stevens, butler though he was, continue to resonate deeply with MBA students. Among the many works of literature that students read in The Moral Leader, he observed, from classical philosophy to contemporary short...
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
What do a health food manufacturer, an infectious-diseases specialist and a content-management expert have in common? Answer: All are women, all are entrepreneurs. And by virtue of being women and entrepreneurs they share one...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
technology meant that innovation to solve a problem could arrive from any quarter: prominent companies, nonprofit enterprises, "two students in a dorm room, or mothers or fathers after they have done their school pickups." He continues to be impressed View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
poor by removing the high cost of everything they need. Chu discussed the benefits and complexities of microfinance with Harvard Business School alumni on June 4, in a session titled "Microfinance: Harnessing the Market for Social...
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by Martha Lagace