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  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

& McKenzie (B): A New Framework for Talent Management Harvard Business School Supplement 408-009 No abstract available. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408009 Codelco Copper View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 2017 (Revised August 2018)
  • Case

Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past

By: Rafael Di Tella, Vincent Pons, Sarah Mehta and David Lane
Over the past several decades, rapid growth in Chinese investment and trade has created for Africa a new development partner. China represents an alternative to U.S. and European nations whose past imperialism, resource avarice, and economic dictates—through the... View Details
Keywords: Copper; Imperialism; IMF; World Bank; ODA; Debt Relief; Growth and Development; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Labor and Management Relations; History; Development Economics; China; Zambia; Africa
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  • June 2023
  • Article

How New Ideas Diffuse in Science

By: Mengjie Cheng, Daniel Scott Smith, Xiang Ren, Hancheng Cao, Sanne Smith and Daniel A. McFarland
What conditions help new ideas spread? Can knowledge entrepreneurs’ position and develop new ideas in ways that help them take off? Most innovation research focuses on products and their reference. That focus ignores the ideas themselves and the broader ideational... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Adoption; Natural Language Processing; Knowledge; Science; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Sharing; Analytics and Data Science
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  • November 2017 (Revised August 2018)
  • Case

Fair Value Accounting at Noble Group (A)

By: Siko Sikochi, Suraj Srinivasan and Quinn Pitcher
Noble Group was a large commodities trader based in Hong Kong and listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. In 2012, Noble shifted its business strategy towards an asset-light model. Under this model, Noble did not own mines or farms to produce commodities but built... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Policy; Goods and Commodities; Contracts; Valuation
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  • February 2005 (Revised May 2005)
  • Case

Intelliseek

Intelliseek harvests, filters, and mines the content of messages posted by consumers online and on discussion boards and blogs. For any specified consumer product brand, Intelliseek measures the volume of work-of-mouth and its valence (proportion of positive and... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Consumer Behavior; Knowledge Management; Marketing Reference Programs; Web Services Industry
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  • Web

HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

intelligence systems eventually perform surgeries or fly planes? First, AI will have to learn to navigate shifting conditions as well as people do. Julian De Freitas and colleagues pit humans against machines in a video game to study AI's current limits and View Details
  • Spring 2014
  • Article

Leveraging Crowdsourced Peer-to-Peer Assessments to Enhance the Case Method of Learning

By: Jill Avery
Many marketing educators use the case method to help their students strengthen their decision-making skills. Rigorous class participation is essential to achieving learning objectives in case method learning. One challenge for case method instructors is the assessment... View Details
Keywords: Case Method Teaching; Marketing; Business Education; Teaching; Education Industry
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  • 08 Nov 2018
  • News

Bookshelf: November / December 2018

  • 2016
  • Book

Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government

By: Rosario Patalano and Sophus A. Reinert
Little is known of Antonio Serra except that he wrote his extraordinary 1613 Short Treatise on the Causes That Make Kingdoms Abound in Gold and Silver even in the Absence of Mines in a Neapolitan jail and that he died there soon afterwards. However, the... View Details
Keywords: History; Books; Government and Politics; Economics
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    Unleashed

    When leaders seek out advice, they’re often told to fix themselves. Should they?

    When leaders want to improve, they will find no shortage of ideas to help them. They’re told to identify and develop their natural-born strengths, mine failures... View Details

      How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management

      High-performing knowledge workers often question whether managers actually contribute much, especially in a technical environment. Until recently, that was the case at Google, a company filled with self-starters who viewed management as more destructive than beneficial... View Details
      • Web

      Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

      Bergerac Revlon, 1975–1985 William Bernbach Doyle Dane Bernbach, 1949–1976 Edward J. Berwind Berwind-White Coal Mining Company, 1886–1930 Gordon M. Bethune Continental Airlines, 1994–2004 Jeffrey P. Bezos Amazon.com, 1994–Present John D.... View Details
      • 21 Aug 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: August 21

      Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines Authors:Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr, and William R. Kerr Abstract Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 11 Feb 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: February 11

      http://hbr.org/product/multi-sided-platforms-foundations-and-strategy/an/714436-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 313-148 Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa This case considers the strategies of Charles W. Engelhard, an American... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 18 Apr 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'

      Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
      Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis; Financial Services; Mining
      • 07 Jun 2016
      • First Look

      June 7, 2016

      May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings International Data on Measuring Management Practices By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We examine methods used to survey firms on their management and... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

        Canary Categories—Journal of Marketing Research

        Typically, past spending in a category is a positive indicator of future purchasing. In this we show that there exist categories (which we name "canary categories") in which the reverse is true -  
        When customers purchase... View Details

        • 14 Nov 2023
        • Research & Ideas

        The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections

        helpful to your company.” The study’s findings also underscore the growing possibility of mining “nuanced and granular” social media data to understand how and why employee networks form and what advantages they provide to their larger... View Details
        Keywords: by Ben Rand
        • 27 Mar 2012
        • First Look

        First Look: March 27

        it and demonstrates why the easy short-term choice is often the most perilous in the long-term. The Founder's Dilemmas draws on the inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, while mining... View Details
        Keywords: Carmen Nobel
        • Web

        Curriculum - Case Method Project

        intervention in a major coal miners’ strike in Pennsylvania in 1902. Coverage: 1790s – 1902; President Theodore Roosevelt; rise of labor unions (history of organized labor); Anthracite Coal Strike; United Mine Workers; Knights of Labor;... View Details