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Capitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance
By: Bruce R. Scott
Capitalism, as defined in this book, is an indirect, three-level system of governance for economic relationships (i.e., economic, administrative, and political). Whereas economic markets can coordinate supply and demand within an existing system thanks to the invisible...
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Keywords:
Economic Systems;
Price;
Governance;
Government and Politics;
Books;
Markets;
Relationships;
System
Scott, Bruce R. Capitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance. Springer, 2011.
- March 2012
- Article
China's Growing IT Services and Software Industry: Challenges and Implications
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia and Justin Wong
The Chinese management software and IT services industry has grown dramatically over the past two decades and today is about the size of the Indian industry a decade ago. The objective of this article is to help CIOs in firms outside of China better understand the...
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- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
were more productive. "There are some industries where a CEO really needs to be outside, so we don't need to be proscriptive, but if you were taking these results literally it would tell you that since a CEO's time is constrained, he...
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by Michael Blanding
- August 2000 (Revised September 2002)
- Exercise
Working with Your Shadow Partner in Analyzing IT Strategic Partnering
By: Richard L. Nolan
A team-based exercise allowing students to conduct a strategy analysis of the leading companies in the IT business. Involves searching on the web for both public information sources and company information sources. The teams work together to analyze the information and...
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Nolan, Richard L. "Working with Your Shadow Partner in Analyzing IT Strategic Partnering." Harvard Business School Exercise 301-003, August 2000. (Revised September 2002.)
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
discussion arose as to just what quality of labor is and how it can be measured and developed on the national level. To Nari Kannan, "Quality of labor is such a broad term. It all depends upon 'labor...
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by by Jim Heskett
- 2021
- Book
The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
Trust is the most powerful force underlying the success of every business. Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation. How to build and sustain trust requires fresh insight into why customers, employees,...
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Keywords:
Power;
Corporate Culture;
Future Of Work;
Innovation;
Technology Strategy;
Automation;
Stakeholder Engagement;
Employee Attitude;
Customer Behavior;
Shareholder Value;
Government And Business;
Impact Investing;
Corporate Change And Sustainability;
Trust;
Power and Influence;
Globalization;
Leadership;
Organizational Culture;
Innovation and Invention;
Human Resources;
Information Technology;
Strategy;
Corporate Accountability;
Asia;
Europe;
South America;
Middle East;
North and Central America
Sucher, Sandra J., and Shalene Gupta. The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It. New York: PublicAffairs, 2021.
- 07 Jun 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
How Short-Termism Invites Corruption--And What to Do About It
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by Malcolm S. Salter
- June 2015
- Case
B Lab: Can it Scale Business as a Force for Good?
By: Christopher Marquis and Matthew Lee
To achieve its goal of redefining success in business, B Lab recognizes it needs to scale. Its strategy to do so requires B Lab to depend heavily on new partners, venture into new markets, influence new audiences, and to strike a balance between standards and...
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Marquis, Christopher, and Matthew Lee. "B Lab: Can it Scale Business as a Force for Good?" Harvard Business School Case 415-080, June 2015.
- 22 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have
training for various reasons.” Rachel Layne: What is machine “unlearning” and why is it important? Seth Neel: Before defining machine unlearning, maybe it's good to set a baseline of what machine learning is. Broadly, I view machine...
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- January 2002 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Postgirot Bank and Provment AB: Managing the Cost of IT Operations
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Nancy Bartlett
Describes a specific approach for measuring the efficiency of the groups of computers inside an organization and suggests ways this tool may be used to reduce the company's computing investment while maintaining service. It is a software-enabled industrial engineering...
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Keywords:
Cost Management;
Investment;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Management Style;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Nancy Bartlett. "Postgirot Bank and Provment AB: Managing the Cost of IT Operations." Harvard Business School Case 302-061, January 2002. (Revised February 2002.)
- November 2018 (Revised February 2019)
- Case
Israel at 70: Is it Possible to (re)Brand a Country?
By: Elie Ofek and Sarah Gulick
In the spring of 2018, Israel was set to celebrate its 70th anniversary. While there was much to rejoice in reaching this milestone, the country’s brand image internationally was far from ideal. Past efforts to impact perceptions of Israel, spearheaded by the Ministry...
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Keywords:
Branding;
Brand Management Of Places;
Nation Branding;
Brand Positioning;
Public Diplomacy;
Marketing Communication;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Communications;
Perception;
Change;
Israel
Ofek, Elie, and Sarah Gulick. "Israel at 70: Is it Possible to (re)Brand a Country?" Harvard Business School Case 519-006, November 2018. (Revised February 2019.)
- October 2015 (Revised July 2017)
- Case
OMV Petrom: Investment as Partnership—When It Takes Three to Tango
By: Dante Roscini, Emer Maloney and Daniela Beyersdorfer
Petrom was privatized by the Romanian state in 2004 and acquired by Austrian oil company OMV, with the state retaining a 20.6% stake in the company. The situation was particularly challenging for the foreign investor since the sector in which the company operated was...
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Keywords:
Partners and Partnerships;
Privatization;
Acquisition;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Business and Government Relations;
Energy Industry;
Austria;
Romania
Roscini, Dante, Emer Maloney, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "OMV Petrom: Investment as Partnership—When It Takes Three to Tango." Harvard Business School Case 716-035, October 2015. (Revised July 2017.)
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
access the internet. With such expanding amounts of appealing content, it seemed feasible to Boik, Greenstein, and Prince that people would have visited more sites during that period, and spent more time on them as well. But that’s not...
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- January 2021
- Article
Sales Hiring Is Hard to Do (Don't Make It Harder)
In the aggregate, hiring in sales is more expensive than many companies’ cap-ex decisions. But it rarely gets the same attention and companies fail to deal with challenges inherent in sales hiring. Unlike many other business functions, there is no easily identified...
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Cespedes, Frank V. "Sales Hiring Is Hard to Do (Don't Make It Harder)." Top Sales Magazine (January 2021), 38–39.
- 2018
- Government Testimony
Health Care Industry Consolidation: What Is Happening, Why It Matters, and What Public Agencies Might Want to Do About It
By: Leemore S. Dafny
Dafny, Leemore S. "Health Care Industry Consolidation: What Is Happening, Why It Matters, and What Public Agencies Might Want to Do About It." Government Testimony, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Washington, DC, February 2018.
- January 2024
- Technical Note
The ICARUS Principles: What It Takes to Tackle the World
By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
Over the course of the 20th century, most of the world’s major multinational corporations framed their mission around Milton Friedman’s famous mantra: that the sole purpose of the firm is to maximize its shareholders’ profits. Recently, however, growing numbers of...
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Keywords:
Purpose;
Mission;
Social Business;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Social Enterprise;
For-Profit Firms
Spar, Debora L., and Julia M. Comeau. "The ICARUS Principles: What It Takes to Tackle the World." Harvard Business School Technical Note 324-055, January 2024.
- July 2024
- Article
The Passive-Ownership Share Is Double What You Think It Is
By: Alex Chinco and Marco Sammon
Each time a stock gets added to or dropped from a benchmark index, we ask: “How much money would have to be tracking that index to explain the huge spike in rebalancing volume we observe on reconstitution day?” While index funds held 16% of the US stock market in 2021,...
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Keywords:
Indexing;
Passive Investing;
Exchange-traded Funds (ETFs);
Russell Reconstitution Day;
Trading Volume;
Information-based Asset Pricing;
Investment Funds;
Asset Pricing
Chinco, Alex, and Marco Sammon. "The Passive-Ownership Share Is Double What You Think It Is." Journal of Financial Economics 157 (July 2024).
- May 9, 2024
- Article
Business Education Is Broken: Here Are Strategies to Fix It
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Business schools have lost their way. Students are schooled in a system that, having raised the standard of living for millions of people over centuries, is now facing systemic failures in both the environmental and social domains—failures that market forces cause and,...
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Keywords:
Education Reform;
Business And Society;
Climate Change;
Equality and Inequality;
Environmental Sustainability;
Business Education
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Business Education Is Broken: Here Are Strategies to Fix It." Inspiring Minds (May 9, 2024).
- Article
The Second Face of Appropriability: Generative Appropriability and Its Determinants
By: Gautam Ahuja, Curba Morris Lampert and Elena Novelli
We distinguish between two forms of appropriability: primary appropriability—effectiveness in exploiting inventions as problem-solving mechanisms and capturing a share of their profits—and generative appropriability—effectiveness in exploiting inventions as concepts...
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Keywords:
Innovation Management;
Profit Management;
Product Management;
Resource Management;
Strategic Alliances (Business);
Strategic Planning;
Innovation and Management
Ahuja, Gautam, Curba Morris Lampert, and Elena Novelli. "The Second Face of Appropriability: Generative Appropriability and Its Determinants." Academy of Management Review 38, no. 2 (April 2013): 248–269.
- Research Summary
The Role of IT in Firm Scope Choice: Diversification or Specialization?
The use of IT can have two, actually opposing, effects on product diversification depending on how technologies are used by the firm. On the one hand, some uses of IT can increase specialization because they allow customers to research and order products remotely,... View Details