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  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

policy sovereignty for the UK and adherence to the “four freedoms” at the heart of the EUs Single Market. A “no deal” Brexit by default remains an option, despite the costs to UK businesses and the wider UK economy. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

    Paul Fireman

    Reebok was pegged as the fastest growing company in America from 1983-1987 by Fortune magazine, and in a 1987 survey by Forbes, Reebok was ranked as the most profitable of 880 companies. View Details
    Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
    • November 2007
    • Supplement

    Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.

    By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu
    How do companies develop a strategy that is both low-cost and differentiated without becoming squeezed in the middle? Describes how Teva, Israel's largest and first multinational, achieved its globally dominant position in generic pharmaceuticals, an industry that has... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Rank and Position; Competitive Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Israel; India
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      Harvey S. Firestone

      By securing a large tire order from Henry Ford in 1906, and aggressively promoting his tires in automobile races, Firestone was able to grow his company’s sales from $100,000 in 1901 to $15 million in 1913, joining the ranks of the “Big... View Details
      Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
      • 20 Mar 2023
      • News

      Taking His Shot

      Before Matija Pecotić (MBA 2019) beat Jack Sock—a tennis star once ranked 8th in the world—at a Florida tournament in February, he had to ask his boss for time off to compete. "I had to send an email to the whole team. [My boss] let me off," Pecotić, the director of... View Details

        Robert F. McDermott

        diversified financial services enterprise with over $30 billion in assets. His deep commitment to customer service and concern for employee satisfaction were recognized by industry analysts who often ranked USAA as the best managed... View Details
        Keywords: Finance

          William Bernbach

          Bernbach catapulted the Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency into national prominence with innovative and creative campaigns. Doyle Dane Bernbach broke into the front ranks of advertising agencies with successful national campaigns for... View Details
          Keywords: Services
          • 08 Nov 2010
          • Research & Ideas

          How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

          worked like this: The New York City Department of Education asked students to submit a ranked list of the five high schools they'd most like to attend, and the students would oblige. Next, the department would photocopy the list and send... View Details
          Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
          • Forthcoming
          • Article

          Human Capital and the Managerial Revolution in the United States: Evidence from General Electric

          By: Tom Nicholas
          This paper estimates the returns to human capital accumulation during the first era of mega-firms in the United States by linking employees at General Electric—a canonical enterprise associated with the “visible hand” of managerial hierarchies—to the 1940 census. I... View Details
          Keywords: Returns To Education; Management Practices; Hierarchies; Management Practices and Processes; Rank and Position; Human Capital; Talent and Talent Management; Business History; United States
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          • March 2015
          • Case

          Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (A) (Abridged)

          By: Boris Groysberg and James Weber
          Tracks the first six months of a recent MBA grad, Tim Keller, at Katzenbach Partners, a boutique consulting firm focused on organizational change and strategy. Covers how Keller initially struggles with his assignment and ends with a question of whether or not he... View Details
          Keywords: Interpersonal Relations; Organization Behavior; Superior ＆ Subordinate; Managing Projects; Informal Organization; Consulting; Professional Services; Leadership; Work-Life Balance; Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizations; Rank and Position; Product Development; Service Industry; Consulting Industry
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          • 21 Jun 2012 - 24 Jun 2012
          • Conference Presentation

          Visual Attention to Power Posers: People Avert their Gaze from Nonverbal Displays of Power

          By: Elizabeth Baily Wolf
          Existing literature suggests that people visually attend more to powerful/high-status people. However, previous studies manipulated target power/status via the target’s role (e.g., CEO or judge vs. mechanic or fry cook) or clothing (e.g., business suit vs. sweat suit).... View Details
          Keywords: Nonverbal Communication; Behavior; Rank and Position; Emotions; Power and Influence
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          • September 2006 (Revised April 2007)
          • Supplement

          Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (B)

          By: Boris Groysberg, Christopher Marquis and Ayesha Kanji
          Supplements the (A) case. The (B) case presents the final outcome of the events. Reveals how Keller is able to turn around perceptions about him and forge relationships with key decision makers. Includes reflections and lessons learned from all parties and Keller's... View Details
          Keywords: Projects; Management; Leadership; Organizations; Situation or Environment; Competition; Rank and Position; Attitudes; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry
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          • 02 Jul 2012
          • Research & Ideas

          Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

          stats from the corporate research firm KLD Research & Analytics, which ranked companies on "Environmental Strength," including positive measures such as pollution prevention programs, recycling, and energy efficiency; and... View Details
          Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

            Samuel M. Vauclain

            Having become a skilled locomotive engineer while working as his father’s apprentice, Vauclain’s talent allowed him to rapidly advance through the ranks of Baldwin. In addition to his innovative designs, Vauclain’s sales skills allowed... View Details
            Keywords: Transportation
            • 14 Mar 2016
            • Research & Ideas

            The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

            unionized while others do not? “It turns out there was something that happened in the 1930s that set the rank of unionization in place across states in the United States, and that rank has stayed roughly the... View Details
            Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

              Gil Addo

              The Huffington Post named RubiconMD one of the “Five Companies Defining the Future of Healthcare” and, in 2020, AllianceBernstein ranked RubiconMD number 12 on its list of the top 25 private companies disrupting healthcare. The company... View Details
              Keywords: Healthcare
              • 23 May 2011
              • Research & Ideas

              Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

              way to measure the sometimes subjective qualities of what makes a company socially responsible. For that, the researchers relied on survey measures from the World Competitiveness Yearbook, published by IMD business school in Switzerland, which View Details
              Keywords: by Michael Blanding
              • Portrait Project

              Zubby Achara

              rank were all that was left. However, I didn’t care much for these things. I didn’t love my job. I didn’t want a wife and was on the fence about children – truths that could pluck me from the top of Nigerian society and throw me into the... View Details
              • 09 Jun 2015
              • News

              Building change from the ground up

              as the Taliban-influenced south, operating under a firm policy of cultural sensitivity and ethical transparency in a country ranked as one of the most corrupt in the world. When Roshan launched, police were called in to control the crowds... View Details
              • 01 Sep 2003
              • News

              New Editor Takes Helm at HBS Bulletin

              Bulletin, including 19 as editor. From 1986 to 1998, Thompson was an editor at Nation’s Business, the monthly small-business magazine of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He specialized in employee benefits and personal finance and rose to the View Details
              Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information