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- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
Why would a business school professor want to write a case study about a string quartet? The answer was easy for Robert Austin, a scholar with research expertise in the management of innovation. While attending an academic workshop near... View Details
- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
assistant professor of business administration. “But we find that debates don’t have any effect on any group of voters.” Pons and co-author Caroline Le Pennec-Caldichoury, a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of California,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
platforms, but new industries are also springing up around them; witness the multibillion-dollar ringtone business. To record the impact of software platforms on the economy and look to their future impact, David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu,... View Details
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
economists and other social scientists as they guide our most important personal and societal decisions. Bank Lending During the Financial Crisis of 2008 Authors:Victoria Ivashina and David S. Scharfstein Publication:Journal of Financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
copy of an extensively researched recent book, Power, for All, by Professors Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro. The authors define power as “the ability to influence others’ behavior, be it through persuasion or coercion (through)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
JohnsonHarvard Business School Supplement 710-057 Supplements the (A) case Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710057-PDF-ENG Codevasf David E. Bell, Marcos Fava Neves, Luciano Thome e Castro, and Natalie... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
represent numbers in search of concepts that provide the illusion of meaning where none exists. This paper, dedicated to our dear friend, David Bradford, provides a general proof that standard and routinely used fiscal measures, including... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Services (revised) Authors:Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats, and David M. Upton Abstract Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume of, or the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
conditions under which a dominant design may be achieved, the underlying architecture of the era of incremental change and the dynamics associated with discontinuities. Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, James Burns,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
of General Motors because of her skills at turning around a large organization. My colleague Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, knowing that I was preparing materials... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
largest shocks in the history of the U.S. banking system. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-106.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsPiramal e-Swasthya: Attempting Big Changes for Small Places-in India and Beyond Rosabeth View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
professor Robert S. Kaplan and Acorn Systems founder and chairman Steven R. Anderson (HBS MBA '95) introduce a system that calculates product, customer, and regional or branch P&Ls quickly and inexpensively. The work marries the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611017-PDF-ENG Poweo: David and Goliath in the French Electricity Market Noel Maurer and Elisa FarriHarvard Business School Case 711-037 Charles Beigbeder, the president and founder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Working PapersWellsprings of Creation: Perturbation and the Paradox of the Highly Disciplined Organization Authors:David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman, and David M. Upton Abstract Organizations face simultaneous... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
involved in software testing, might teach us about leveraging human assets, in all their diversity, in an innovation economy. Care Platforms: A Basic Building Block for Care Delivery Authors:Richard Bohmer and David Lawrence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
http://hbr.org/2010/01/managing-yourself-five-ways-to-bungle-a-job-change/ar/1 Managing Alliances with the Balanced Scorecard Authors:Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton, and Bjarne Rugelsjoen Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 1... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
advised Congress and past presidents on health care policy, and won the first HBS student award for outstanding instructor. Richard J. Boxer, MD, FACS, is clinical professor at the David Geffen School of... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
First, HBS alumnae Kim Scott's book Just Work offers practical ways to serve as an upstander and deal with injustice at work. Second, my dear friend Laurie David and her co-author Heather Reisman's book Imagine It! not only unpacks how... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 2024
- Book
When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day
By: Archon Fung, David Moss and Odd Arne Westad
Democracy is often described in two opposite ways, as either wonderfully resilient or dangerously fragile. Curiously, both characterizations can be correct, depending on the context. When Democracy Breaks aims to deepen our understanding of what separates democratic... View Details
Fung, Archon, David Moss, and Odd Arne Westad, eds. When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day. Oxford University Press, 2024.
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
Marvel to venture outside its current business model and move into more capital-intensive activities? What marketing strategy would allow Marvel to sustain its success in the coming years? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511097-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne