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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
regulatory infrastructure. Political corruption, restrictions by China on the free flow of information and opinion, or other official interference could be potential areas of conflict, he said. Organized by the Asian Business Club at HBS...
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- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
four decades. "There are many people who believe the government is doing too much, and that the government interferes with economic growth if it enacts and implements policies around climate change; therefore, they choose not to believe...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
Massport came in for withering public criticism over lax security. The CEO abruptly resigned. And a special commission appointed by the governor concluded that years of political interference had eroded the agency’s ability to function in...
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- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
organizational level, you make the point that special interest groups can really interfere with efforts to avert a predictable surprise. What is the power of special interest groups? A: Any time reform would yield broad but modest gains...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
they shouldn’t unionize. The employer’s legal right to coercively interfere with employees’ choices is at work in a way that’s completely inappropriate. The election process itself allows for long delays in litigation and uncertainty. I...
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- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
interference so they are not distracted by other tasks. In addition to keeping distractions at bay, what are some other ways managers can boost creativity? Obviously managers need to be concerned with big picture issues such as overall...
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- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
and Norfolk Southern. Today, by most measures, freight rail is doing better than ever, while passenger rail faces significant challenges-though it is clear that numerous pain points and bottlenecks interfere with optimal use of rail to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
property rights institutions that restrain the state can be more important as they provide the foundation for contractual institutions. In short, the ability to contract effectively between private parties is meaningless unless you can be assured that the state won't...
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- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
United States can try to ensure good government, but it backs down on that commitment because the flip side of Panama being important is that Panama can also interfere with the functioning of the canal." An identical situation is...
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by Julia Hanna
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
any tender or vulnerable emotions (“no sissy stuff”). “Put work first”: a workplace where nothing outside the organization (e.g., family) can interfere with work, where taking a break or a leave represents an impermissible lack of...
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- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
anemia and cystic fibrosis, among many others. The dispute had escalated to the point where the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) declared a patent interference and began a process to determine the intellectual property’s (IP)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
the benefit of others.” Profit is what remains after market forces for factors of production have done their work. My words, not Wittenberg’s. As Wittenberg points out, in an unregulated market for labor or other resources, “supply and demand are always moving toward...
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by James Heskett
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
bureaucracy, and decision-making hurdles can all interfere with early public sector adoption of even the most worthy innovation, he says. This slower-than-expected adoption and diffusion may have surprised the leaders of OLPC. "I...
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- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
returned. Throughout the rest of 2007, she endured months of especially difficult rounds of chemotherapy and painful side effects. Yet Jen refused to let her physical condition interfere with the effort to assist others. As she wrote in...
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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
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
may be "found mostly in state and community colleges and not so much in the Ivy leagues." But Hugh Quick commented, "Beware of government interference with schools." One positive example put forward was that of...
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- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
as identity work and show how subtle forms of gender bias in the culture and in organizations interfere with the identity work of women leaders. Based on this insight, we revisit traditional approaches to standard leadership topics, such...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
of emotions in collaborative relationships in organizations and suggest that organizational policies can set in motion a cycle of negative emotions that interfere with collaborative work. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace