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- 21 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish
reduce poverty within their borders. Several years ago, world leaders gathered in Monterrey, Mexico, and gave poverty reduction top priority. They committed themselves to halve the number of people living on less than $1 a day by 2015....
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by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
of intellectual property theft by foreign competitors grows and secrecy becomes a more attractive strategy for firms to protect and capitalize on their innovations, this question is becoming increasingly important to policymakers and...
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by Kristen Senz
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
Recent humanitarian crises—the Asian tsunami, conflicts in Afghanistan, and the war in Iraq—are high-profile opportunities for NGOs. Is this a time to capitalize on strengths, or just to pitch in and be...
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by Manda Salls
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
making deals. As it says in Warfighting: The U.S. Marine Corps Book of Strategy (Currency, 1995), "The very nature of war makes certainty impossible; all actions in war will be based View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage
In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their...
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by Joseph B. Fuller
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
In a recently published book on current international research in business history, edited by Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones, HBS professor emeritus Alfred D. Chandler Jr. contributed an essay View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
benefited from the catch-up following low-income levels caused during war or conflict. Five incidents were credited, or partially credited, to government spending on infrastructure or jobs. In most cases...
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by Kim Girard
- January 2020
- Case
A Tough Call: SEAL Team Leader in Kandahar (A)
By: George A. Riedel
The case, which is a disguised version of real events, is set in Kandahar, Afghanistan (2013) during the long running Afghan war. Lt. Paul Rickson, a Navy SEAL Platoon Commander, is leading a team of 30 U.S. and Afghan soldiers on a mission to clear hostile forces in...
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Leadership;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Safety;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Afghanistan
Riedel, George A. "A Tough Call: SEAL Team Leader in Kandahar (A)." Harvard Business School Case 320-001, January 2020.
- 17 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage
recognized, and cultivate enduring connections,” they write, “then we can together make extraordinary progress toward making our system one in which it could be worth living—and one that people would believe...
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by Michael Blanding
- 02 Sep 2016
- Op-Ed
The Twitter Election
vote on Election Day in every precinct.Paid television advertising, the air war, can give a candidate broad coverage and control of the message but is expensive. Similarly, the ground war requires an...
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by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
of about $70 billion. Daft's solution was an aggressive shift in the opposite direction. On taking over, he avowed, "The world in which we operate has changed dramatically, and we must change to succeed. No View Details
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608080 Bidding on Martha's Vineyard (A) Harvard Business School Case 908-044 To buy a desirable Martha's Vineyard property, Robert and Sally Franklin must craft a bidding...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living....
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by Bill George
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
Leadership Initiative was organized to be a catalyst for research on leaders and leadership, and to design effective leadership development programs that are relevant for the 21st century. The goal of the Initiative is to support Harvard...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
to move into palm oil—a much more capital intensive crop to process, with higher barriers to entry for small farmers. Geopolitical forces also played a part in the palm oil industry’s development, Giacomin says. After World War II,...
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- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find evidence of agglomeration economies in both sectors,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Writing the Case for Public School Reform
working with leadership teams from nine urban school districts over the course of three annual sessions to coordinate research and create coherent, scalable systems for education reform. Two cases written for PELP and taught by HBS professor David Thomas focus View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
the Panic of 1907, and advanced by professional economists, like Irving Fisher and Warren Persons, after World War I. By the late-1920s, about a dozen forecasters competed to sell businesspeople their predictions, usually in the form of...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
the counter on a per-order basis, after conferring with customers individually. Some grocers did experiment with self-service meat marketing in the 1930s, but soon gave up due to refrigeration and packaging challenges. Not until after...
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