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- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
years, MacCormack has led FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development), a hands-on experiential learning program that has arguably revolutionized education at HBS more than any development since the introduction of the case-study View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
PublicationsHow Much Is a Reduction of Your Customers' Wait Worth? An Empirical Study of the Fast-Food Drive-Thru Industry Based on Structural Estimation Methods Authors:Gad Allon, Awi Federgruen, and Margaret P. Pierson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
short-term volatility of inflation-indexed bond returns do not invalidate the basic case for these bonds, that they provide a safe asset for long-term investors. Governments should expect inflation-indexed bonds to be a relatively cheap... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
to carry on the tradition of the firm in changed circumstances. Perhaps the competition was more intense than it had been. In some cases the business was really challenged. In other cases the firm had become... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
Locations Visited: Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore Date: March and May, 2006 Purpose: Assess the progress of eighteen business schools in Harvard Business School's Program on Case Method... View Details
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
ownership stake but with control of the political environment. The legal documents surrounding the case provide a unique perspective on the methods of tunneling and provide lessons on how to prevent, or at... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
to greater learning in this area, the academics generally cited shortage of faculty who understood health care and could teach business skills; lack of case materials and familiarity with case View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
regional clusters. Naomi Lamoreaux and others have also underscored the financial and regulatory conditions in which innovation has flourished. Large datasets and econometric methods have enabled researchers to come up with powerful... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
they can be entrepreneurial. These kinds of models help make entrepreneurship very teachable. Many more students emerge thinking they have this capability than started out. HS: The case method inherently... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-024.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsNone PublicationsChallenges in Managing Large Projects Editors:J. Ronald Fox and Donn B. Miller Publication:Defense Acquisition University Press, 2006 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
opportunities for both independence and active engagement of their most talented employees. Since many companies can get their hands on the same technology, the same markets, the same production methods and the same distribution channels... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
girls reveal insecurities about their looks, showing the harm done by unrealistic standards set by the industry. (Dove is also the subject of a new case by Deighton.) “Authenticity becomes a much more desirable property than... View Details
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
their compliance skills. But this group lacked influence with top management. With its own logic and terminology, management viewed the new guard's methods as incompatible with the way the bank was run and difficult to attach to the... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
measurement had fueled great market success for the division, but alternative non-contact measurement methods that employed optical or x-ray technologies were rapidly gaining ground in the market. This case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
Breakthroughs faculty draw on a broad range of cases to address decisions faced by senior leaders of science-based organizations. Consider Kodak and the digital revolution. "Kodak saw that film was going to be outmoded, but it wasn't... View Details
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
money to spend on groceries. So if we were opened seven days a week, we wouldn't necessarily sell any more, and we would have to increase prices to cover our expenses." The Mercadona case inevitably raises the question: Can this... View Details
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
paper I just assumed that noncompetes were an invention of modern—especially high tech—companies. But as you make clear, noncompetes have enjoyed a long history. How and why did they arise? A: The earliest recorded noncompete case was... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
ignored." I'm not claiming local entrepreneurship is the only determinant of FDI, but it could be an important determinant that is often ignored.— Yasheng Huang Fdi And Asian Economies Huang has made the case that China's reliance on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
spending time with each other, those can be overcome.” The panelists also discussed the possibility of collaborating on teaching methods. For instance, some SEAS classes could adopt Harvard Business School’s case View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS professors recently gathered to review the current crisis. Is it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons