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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
more difficult than anyone would wish. According to Mills, who offered the closing comments at the Restoring Confidence in American Business conference held at Harvard Business School on April 21, which drew about 350 attendees, it is...
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- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
$22 billion on R&D, while Apple spent a relatively paltry $2.5 billion. And yet, since that launch, Apple has far outperformed Nokia in terms of both its profit margins and its reputation for innovation....
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by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
that are feeling threatened have learned how to bully younger upstarts by wielding licenses and patent law like a weapon. It certainly doesn't encourage the spirit of innovation, does it? However, it isn't...
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by Ann Cullen
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
nation, Keloharju believes the findings are generalizable to other countries, including the United States. Widely cited for its management practices, Sweden has 24 companies on the Forbes Global 2000 list of largest companies in the...
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by Carmen Nobel
- July–August 2023
- Article
Case Study: How Should a Start-Up Cut Its Burn Rate?
By: Nitin Nohria, Katie Josephson, Sophia Wronsky and Elizabeth Rha
Tyler Smith, the founder and CEO of the enterprise software firm Puck.io, is facing a hard decision. Just three months earlier the company laid off 20% of its employees to reduce its burn rate amid growing economic uncertainty and a suddenly unattractive funding...
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Employees;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business or Company Management;
Business Startups
Nohria, Nitin, Katie Josephson, Sophia Wronsky, and Elizabeth Rha. "Case Study: How Should a Start-Up Cut Its Burn Rate?" Harvard Business Review 101, no. 4 (July–August 2023): 144–149.
- March 1, 2004
- Other Article
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
By: Alan MacCormack and Sean Silverthorne
MacCormack, Alan, and Sean Silverthorne. "Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (March 1, 2004). (Interview.)
- September 2014
- Supplement
HGRM (B): Launching Hoxell, a New IT Venture
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Gabriele Piccoli and Arnold Peinado
Keywords:
Entrepreneurial Management;
Strategy;
Growth Strategy And Execution;
Business Models;
Disruptive Technologies;
Customer Relations;
International Business;
Entrepreneurship;
Management Systems;
Operations;
Competitive Strategy
Applegate, Lynda M., Gabriele Piccoli, and Arnold Peinado. "HGRM (B): Launching Hoxell, a New IT Venture." Harvard Business School Supplement 815-057, September 2014.
- February 23, 2010
- Article
The U.S. Public Debt Hits its Tipping Point
By: Robert C. Pozen
Pozen, Robert C. "The U.S. Public Debt Hits its Tipping Point." Boston Globe (February 23, 2010).
- March 2003 (Revised July 2003)
- Case
Cisco Systems and its Community Fellowship Program (B)
Supplements the (A) case.
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Barrett, Diana, and Sheila McCarthy. "Cisco Systems and its Community Fellowship Program (B)." Harvard Business School Case 303-093, March 2003. (Revised July 2003.)
- April 2002 (Revised July 2003)
- Case
Cisco Systems and its Community Fellowship Program (A)
By: Diana Barrett and Sheila McCarthy
Focuses on the introduction, implementation, and initial evaluation of Cisco Systems Community Fellowship Program. This program provided Cisco employees affected by the layoff the option of working with a nonprofit organization for one year. Instead of a severance...
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Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Compensation and Benefits;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Web Services Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
United States
Barrett, Diana, and Sheila McCarthy. "Cisco Systems and its Community Fellowship Program (A)." Harvard Business School Case 302-078, April 2002. (Revised July 2003.)
- 2004
- Working Paper
Perceived Relative Power and Its Influence on Negotiations
By: Rebecca J. Wolfe and Kathleen L. McGinn
- Research Summary
Is there a Relationship Between IT Investment and Industry Structure?
A provocative current argument is that 'IT doesn't matter' in a competitive sense -- that it benefits all companies equally, and so provides advantage and differentiation to none and leaves industry structures unchanged.
As we accumulate a longer history of IT... View Details
- 10 Mar 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
For Today’s Travel Businesses, Is It TripAdvisor or Bust?
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Federal Reserve's Abandonment of Its 1923 Principles
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This paper studies the persistence and some of the consequences of the eventual abandonment by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the principles embedded in the Federal Reserve’s Tenth Annual Report of 1923. The three principles I focus on are 1) the...
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Rotemberg, Julio J. "The Federal Reserve's Abandonment of Its 1923 Principles." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 20507, September 2014.
- 2008
- Other Unpublished Work
Remaking the IT Management Curriculum: A 'Novel' Approach
By: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan and Shannon O'Donnell
- September 2001
- Teaching Note
Cisco Systems Architecture: ERP and Web-enabled IT TN
Teaching Note for (9-301-099).
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Information Technology Industry
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
GAAP can wind up in jail or pay hefty fines. Its accounting principles are derived from an exhaustive public process overseen by experts in measurement, not like the stakeholders of present “transparency” who are interested in protecting...
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- 14 Sep 2020
- Working Paper Summaries