Harvard Business Review

4.58 pm | 27 Sep 2006

Each week First Look summarizes new working papers, case studies, and publications produced by Harvard Business School faculty. Here readers will be a...

5.21 pm | 19 Sep 2006

Many of today's most successful and innovative companies know that merely good customer service is not good enough. Instead, all these organizations ...

5.14 pm | 19 Sep 2006

Strengthening the performance of both the board and the company management is now a formidable task that requires extraordinary leadership....

4.58 pm | 19 Sep 2006

Race is a critical component of relationships in organizations, particularly in the United States and, due to shifting demographics, particularly for ...

4.39 pm | 19 Sep 2006

Professor Jerry Green and coauthor Laurence J. Kotlikoff agree with the long-made argument that the deficit and related fiscal measures are basically ...

5.55 pm | 16 Sep 2006

Most research to date into the OSS movement has focused on the organization and management issues surrounding OSS. Ghemawat and Casadesus-Masanell cho...

7.00 pm | 15 Sep 2006

When a firm reduces the number of shares available to trade, so-called float manipulation, the price of the stock is often driven up. The author uses ...

6.55 pm | 15 Sep 2006

To succeed in a new reality, nonprofits require strong, innovative board leaders who can respond in an environment of continual change. ...

7.02 pm | 14 Sep 2006

In 2002, Leitax, a niche consumer electronics company, suffered serious supply chain planning mishaps due to poor cross-functional integration in the ...

6.52 pm | 14 Sep 2006

Amid today's complex private equity environment, players across the industry—investors, entrepreneurs, and professional intermediaries alike—can benef...

6.48 pm | 14 Sep 2006

Business family members face unique challenges, such as nurturing effective family work and shareholder relationships, addressing succession issues, a...

6.35 pm | 14 Sep 2006

Preparing a manager to assume a leadership position, however, can take years of on-the-job training. In response to this need, Harvard Business School...

5.46 pm | 14 Sep 2006

On its face, self-management looks like a "win-win" answer to the scarcity of good managers and the predominance of low-involvement entry-level jobs. ...

5.37 pm | 14 Sep 2006

In his course on commercializing science and technology, Lee Fleming combines students from business, engineering, law, science, and medicine. The res...

2.04 pm | 09 Sep 2006

When TV Nova launched as the first private television channel in post-communist Czechoslovakia, few anticipated the business drama behind the scenes. ...