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- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? I draw from extensive personal interaction and correspondence with nearly fifty former executives as well as research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Although these laws account for less than 7 percent of U.S. public funding for education, their mandates strongly influence the activities of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
post-graduate work experience under my belt. I believed in the effectiveness of the case method for building my business skills, and in the influence of an HBS education and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
schools right away but was told by Harvard Business School that I would only be accepted if I had a year of post-graduate work experience under my belt. I believed in the effectiveness of the case method for building my business skills, View Details
- 14 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition
Despite their best efforts, most companies continue to squander what may be their greatest asset in today's knowledge economy: the wealth of expertise, ideas, and latent insights that lies scattered across or deeply embedded in their... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
powerful instruments of philanthropy, like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, are putting hundreds of millions of dollars towards the eradication of a disease. Huge as that is, it's not an effort that can be permanent. Historically,... View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
viable business out of their groundbreaking technology. The case raises issues in entrepreneurship and B2B marketing such as analyzing economic value to the customer, designing optimal price metrics, aligning pricing with marketing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
historical context and suggesting that scholars move past unconditional acceptance of the causal power of "socialist legacies" and instead attend to the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether access to and marketing of an individually held commitment savings product lead to an increase in female decision-making... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
to provide visualization of data, machine learning models for prediction, and most importantly, insights that could influence the company’s strategy. To this end, the knowledge that I learned at HBS was... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
not force the disparate CSR programs into their business strategies. Instead, the goal should be to "bring discipline and structure to the many fragmented components. [The] components will in some cases support the core strategy View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
doctoral candidate Lisa R. Klein and MIT professor Ernst R. Berndt, offer some important insights. The researchers begin by identifying forces both inside and outside the media industry that are View Details
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
Soaring COVID-19 cases are forcing government officials to confront a critical question: Should they lock down the economy further? Whether to curb activities like indoor dining might seem like a simple choice, but the decision to ease restrictions can send a View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Perilous Waters, Sunken Ships, and the True Story of the Legendary Wrecker Captains by Dennis M. Powers (MBA ’69) (Amacom) Powers tells the story of a group of 19th- View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
suggest that the positive influence of paradoxical frames on creativity is due to the paradoxical relationship between task elements and not merely to their joint activation. This paradoxical relationship... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
addressing its underlying causes such as injustice and inequality. This case follows a series of radical transformations implemented by the organization's CEO, Ramesh Singh-a power shift from its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
Gazprom (B): Energy and Strategy in a New Era Harvard Business School Case Supplement 709-009 President Putin publicly stated that Gazprom, the largest natural gas producer in the world, was a powerful... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
spend more than $800 billion annually on those efforts. Sales compensation plans are at the center of all this activity, the primary tool managers use to motivate and incentivize salespeople. Sales reps feed on two forms of compensation:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
million from advertising. The new CEO had to decide which of these three revenue sources he should focus on in the future and how this choice would influence the target customers, the service offerings,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Michael R. Bloomberg
after starting Bloomberg LP, Merrill Lynch purchased 20 terminals and became our first customer.”NEVER STOP LEARNING. “The most powerful word in the English language is “Why.” There is nothing so View Details