Skip to the beginning of the images gallery

The HBR Agenda 2011

Ariely, Dan ; Brown, Tim ; Cappelli, Peter ; Davenport, Thomas H. ; Duflo, Esther ; FernÃ¡ndez-ArÃ¡oz, Claudio ; Govindarajan, Vijay ; Gratton, Lynda ; Hackman, J. Richard ; Ibarra, Herminia ; Kedrosky, Paul ; Lafley, A.G. ; Li, Charlene ; Ma, Jack ; Manzoni, Jean-Francois ; Pink, Daniel H. ; Porter, Michael E. ; Schein, Edgar H. ; Schmidt, Eric ; Schwab, Klaus ; Shirky, Clay ; Stiglitz, Joseph E. ; Sutton, Robert I. ; Tyson, La

Knowledge and Communication

English , Spanish

Reference: HBS-R1101B-E
Number of pages: 26
Publication Date: Jan 1, 2011
Source: HBSP (USA)
Type of Document: Article
Industry Setting: Cellular telephones;Health care services

Grouped product items
Format	Language	Reference	Use	Qty	Price
pdf	English	HBS-R1101B-E			As low as €8.20

You already have a subscription

To order please contact the person in charge of academic purchases in your university.

You'll be able to order once your profile has been validated.

Description

Joseph E. Stiglitz will be crafting a new postcrisis paradigm for macroeconomics whereby rational individuals interact with imperfect and asymmetric information. Herminia Ibarra will be looking for hard evidence of how "soft" leadership creates value. Eric Schmidt will be planning to scale mobile technology by developing fast networks and providing low-cost smartphones in the poorest parts of the world. Michael Porter will be using modern cost accounting to uncover-and lower-the real costs of health care. Vijay Govindarajan will be trying to prototype a $300 house to replace the world's poorest slums, provide healthy living, and foster education. Dan Ariely will be investigating consumers' distaste for genetically modified salmon, synthetic pharmaceuticals, and other products that aren't "natural." Laura D. Tyson will be promoting the establishment of a national infrastructure investment bank. Esther Duflo will be striving to increase full immunization in poor areas of India. Clay Shirky will be studying how to design internet platforms that foster civility. Klaus Schwab will be undertaking to create a Risk Response Network through which decision makers around the world can pool knowledge about the risks they face. Jack Ma will be working to instill a strong set of values in his 19,000 young employees and to help clean up China's environment. Thomas H. Davenport will be researching big judgment calls that turned out well and how organizations arrived at them. A.G. Lafley will be proselytizing to make company boards take leadership succession seriously. Eleven additional contributors to the Agenda, along with special audio and video features, can be found at hbr.org/2011-agenda.

Keywords

Consumer behavior Economics Infrastructure Leadership Macroeconomics Poverty Risk management Urban development