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- 11 Jun 2024
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024
As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some...
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by Avery Forman
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet
are external hires, and roughly two-thirds are “complete outsiders,” finds a recent working paper by Paul Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In contrast, one recent analysis found...
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- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
diversification. In terms of opportunities, the exploitation of primary commodities in countries located far away from the main European markets became far more practical. At the same time new markets were opened by steamships, new ports,...
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by Geoffrey Jones
- 04 Feb 2022
- Book
Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries
institutions that would prevent new holders of sovereignty from interfering with existing forms of property. Caught in between were the developmental economists (discussed by David Engerman, Sara Lorenzini,...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical assets View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2023
- HBS Case
What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment
an analytical orientation often find comfort in data, leaning on numbers or models to develop a plan that provides the best chance for success (e.g., “data is king”). Contextual. Individuals with a contextual orientation tend to focus on how the situation is influenced...
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by Ben Rand
- 02 May 2022
- What Do You Think?
Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?
(Susan Young/Harvard Business School) “What do you think?” is a question that has graced case method discussions at the Harvard Business School for the past 100 years. The question reflects long-held beliefs by some members of the HBS...
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- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
on specific proposals begin the week of June 22.] Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's proposals for fixing the broken financial system closely resemble those found in Moss's own playbook. In this instance, the book is a Special Report on Regulatory Reform,...
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- 10 Jul 2023
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023
Daughter); and the Dave Robicheaux series by James Lee Burke. Good teaching cases might not always be thrilling or mysterious, but they present dilemmas, offer a compelling narrative, illuminate the context, and in their own way, provide...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, recently published by Harvard Business Press, aims to give the topic its intellectual due. Edited by Khurana and Nitin Nohria, who will become the new Dean of...
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- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
Reagan had appointed the commission to study defence procurement following a series of scandals involving fraud, waste, and abuse in the industry. Chaired by Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard, the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
from government. Suggestions of causes of the current challenge of rapidly rising costs in relation to quality of outcomes, at least by the imperfect measure of life expectancy, included waste in the system (Julie Maire, Edward Hare, and...
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- 31 Mar 2008
- HBS Case
JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis
JetBlue founder, chairman, and then-CEO David Neeleman would later call "the worst operational week in JetBlue's seven-year history." A Storm Brews It started with a winter ice storm forecasted to change to rain. With that...
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- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
pinpoint exactly when a voter decided on a candidate—before or after a debate—without having to rely on voters’ memories. They found: A large fraction of voters change their minds during the campaign. The percentage of voters who had settled on a candidate rose View Details
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by Danielle Kost
- 27 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’
Online—was coauthored by Nancy P. Rothbard, David Pottruck Professor of Management of the Wharton School of Business; Lakshmi Ramarajan, the Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Associate Professor of...
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by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets...
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by Avery Forman
- 25 Jul 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Evolution of Apple
In the context of the computer industry at large, professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that's always been a bit different in "Apple Computer, 2006." The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent...
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- 01 Nov 2017
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?
David DeSteno, Who Can You Trust?, reminded us that “90% of people—most of whom identify themselves as morally upstanding—will act dishonestly to benefit themselves if they believe they won’t get caught.” Possible remedies were suggested...
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- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
auto market in the 1950s. The industry leader, unbothered by competition and looming threats, began to coast on its former glory, however, and bypass such areas as consumer preferences and industry innovation. View Details
- 21 Apr 2018
- Panel Discussion
Discussion of "Identification of Dynamic Games with Multiple Equilibria and Unobserved Heterogeneity with Application to Fast Food Chains In China," by Yao Luo, Ping Xiao, Ruli Xiao
By: David Hao Zhang
Zhang, David Hao. Discussion of "Identification of Dynamic Games with Multiple Equilibria and Unobserved Heterogeneity with Application to Fast Food Chains In China," by Yao Luo, Ping Xiao, Ruli Xiao. International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Indianapolis, IN, April 21, 2018.