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21 Nov 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms

someone who works in London, for instance, to attend our program in Mumbai. It will let them be in a different environment and build different relationships." View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

16 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

asset seizure by enemy governments. Negotiation Some directly negotiated favorable business arrangements with local governments and decision makers. Perseverance Some adopted the approach of resilience, working View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices

also discussed the use of phones' location-tracking technology, as it pertained to advertising. It's been a subject of concern among privacy advocates, but not, apparently, among the majority of panel attendees. "Have you ever gone View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

wake up one morning saying, 'I just want to write chicken-scratch, slowly, on a Palm.' It's just a horrible behavioral change.—Michael Schreck, General Catalyst "I worked at SGI [Silicon Graphics]... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

or at least step back from their intensive careers and for most, the timing coincides with the period when they're just getting to the top in their careers. Women are far more likely than men View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Building Communities as Well as Companies

relationships with people well before I had launched my business. Start planning early. Save money. And go back to your community." Feeling profitable, McMillan said, is not only about economics—it's... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

19 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book

incompatible with other societal priorities. I think of integrated reporting as one of these progressive ideas and efforts that can begin to restore society's trust. If we start in various ways reporting View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria; Accounting

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

Stevenson said the recent technology sector market crash should teach future entrepreneurs to build companies to last rather than to sell, and to... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

02 Jul 2015
Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

government needs to reach an agreement with creditors as soon as possible. Every day that goes by, it is getting closer to going back to the... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

wherein managers work in cross-border teams to resolve a variety of complex, international, management problems. The challenges they encounter are much like those of the "virtual" teams at the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

enough money to prosper, low-income families' access to health benefits, their civic participation, family stability, and mental wellbeing are all diminished by their low success rate in building assets.... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

08 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 8, 2006

Working PapersThe Judgment-Decision Paradox in Experience-Based Decisions and the Contingent Recency Effect Authors:Greg Barron, Ido Erev, and Eldad Yechiam. Abstract The current paper explores a judgment-decision paradox in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

holders for your stock because they do not trade much. Getting back to Japan, the stock splits can be thought of a form of float manipulation. By limiting the number of shares on the market, and making it... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought

And, it might seem appropriate to ask, how do such philosophical questions relate to marketing? Zaltman's eponymous research tool, the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique, called ZMET for short, was... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations

organizations? Upton: Popular strategies fall short partly because they are fads that happen to work well in one company but do not transfer well into others, or because they are misunderstood, misapplied,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

07 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

Credit: iStock If you think looking for a job in your profession is difficult, try being an accounting PhD looking for work in academia. Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan Rouen advises job hunters View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

03 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize

conversations, we routinely heard that phrase played back to us. It is in the center of the Nobel Prize identity." A Networked Brand The researchers also discuss the idea that a brand's identity and heritage... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

information is being used and being sold?" As we show in the case they’re being profiled right down to minutiae. They can pretty much identify who you are. Kenny: Let's go back View Details

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

a frenzy to make that happen. However, during those first few years, LaMagna began to be more reflective. He thought back to his earlier... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

29 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?

With the rise of mobile payment apps like Venmo, many people can easily record the exact charges incurred by a lunch partner and pay back debts to the cent. They see themselves as efficient and fair. Others... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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