Filter Results
:
(6,111)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(6,111)
- People (15)
- News (1,205)
- Research (3,895)
- Events (21)
- Multimedia (25)
- Faculty Publications (2,343)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(6,111)
- People (15)
- News (1,205)
- Research (3,895)
- Events (21)
- Multimedia (25)
- Faculty Publications (2,343)
- 20 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
released On Competition, Porter collects his most influential articles from HBR, and adds new work on health care, philanthropy, social responsibility, and leadership. This excerpt, coauthored with Harvard Business School professors Jay...
View Details
- September 2019
- Article
Technology Reemergence: Creating New Value for Old Technologies in Swiss Mechanical Watchmaking, 1970-2008
By: Ryan Raffaelli
In 1983, 14 years after the introduction of the battery-powered quartz watch, mechanical watches and the Swiss watchmakers who built them were predicted to be obsolete (Landes, 1983). Unexpectedly, however, by 2008 the Swiss mechanical watchmaking industry had...
View Details
Keywords:
Technology Reemergence;
Technology Cycles;
Cognition And Market Redefinition;
Legacy Technology Trajectories;
Information Technology;
Demand and Consumers;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Identity;
Change;
Consumer Products Industry;
Switzerland
Raffaelli, Ryan. "Technology Reemergence: Creating New Value for Old Technologies in Swiss Mechanical Watchmaking, 1970-2008." Administrative Science Quarterly 64, no. 3 (September 2019): 576–618.
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
obvious that we must tax the hell out of vacant properties and/or urban land speculation?" Others suggested non-tax solutions. One such proposal was put forth by Mok Tuck Sung: "(The wealthy) should be encouraged to participate actively in View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Bridging the ESG Data Gap
entrepreneurs-in-residence. Murday was at the i-lab the day Harvard’s campus-wide COVID-19 shutdown was announced. “That was a curveball,” she notes, but adds that the Harvard Innovation Labs moved quickly to set up virtual resources. She credits Rebekah Emanuel (MBA...
View Details
Keywords:
Deborah Blagg
- Web
About - Business History
Administration from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and an honorary PhD from the University of Helsinki, Finland. Professor Jones researches the evolution, impact and social and ecological View Details
- Web
Online Management Course | HBS Online
feedback, decision-making simulations, and a capstone assignment. Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by...
View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
Corporate scandals often follow a pattern: Whether it’s Theranos and its fraudulent blood testing technology, Wells Fargo and its fake financial accounts, or Volkswagen and its bogus emissions data, a whistleblower eventually comes...
View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
significantly higher for companies with a wider divergence between the corporate insiders' control rights and cash-flow rights, suggesting that companies whose corporate insiders have larger excess control...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How To Do Business in Islamic Countries
Interest is prohibited. "This is the probably the thing that is most often identified with Islamic finance. Back in the time of the prophet Mohammed, some of the most rapacious individuals were the moneylenders; and so as a response...
View Details
Keywords:
by Martha Lagace
- Web
In the News - Creating Emerging Markets
Institute, holds forth on failure of corporate governance in India’s top companies. Working Knowledge Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good Indian screen star Shabana Azmi talks to Rohit...
View Details
- 02 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving
The restaurant industry is one of those most devastated by COVID-19, and social distancing will continue to make many small restaurants unviable. Reduced revenue flows will never cover the rent. But not all is lost. In our research, one...
View Details
- 2008
- Chapter
The Evidence Does Not Speak for Itself: Expert Witnesses and the Organization of DNA-Typing Companies
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
During the past 15 years, new biotechnology companies have promoted DNA typing as a sophisticated criminal and paternity identification technique. Private testing laboratories produce results that link individuals with crime scenes and fathers to their children....
View Details
- Web
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
View Details
- Web
2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Eugene F. Soltes + More Info – Less Info Participants will have a chance to engage in a discussion of the case "A Letter From Prison," followed by a presentation on the psychology of white-collar crime. CASE STUDY Board of Directors and the View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
this business issue, members of Fuller’s team surveyed two groups. They asked 301 human resource leaders and business owners in the United States how they approach caregiving benefits. And they asked 1,500 employees who provide or expected to provide unpaid care how...
View Details
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
"There is a very strong emotional response to the lack of fairness, irrespective of the right rational decision," says Wasynczuk. "The more we understand how people behave based on emotions, the more thoughtful and...
View Details
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
for Western companies to see," says Shelman. Younger employees, for example, are encouraged to socialize over company-provided video games on their breaks. This practice serves several purposes: It eases the minds of parents anxious...
View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
should your employees be to helping each other? Are they sharing responsibility for your company's success? (7) What strategic uncertainties keep you awake at night? How are you riveting everyone's attention on those uncertainties? These...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Setting a Higher Bar on Fatherhood
Though my classroom experience may look similar to any other student, it’s in that extracurricular time that the differences come to life. Sure, I don’t attend as many social events as the average student, but it’s not a major loss when I...
View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
choosing compelling stories—stories that we can learn from, stories that we can make our own, stories that we don't forget as we go out in the world and begin to be responsible for other people's lives, jobs, money, energy, and...
View Details
Keywords:
by Martha Lagace