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- 29 Sep 2017
- News
No Phillips Head? No Problem, Says IKEA
- Article
Ignore June 30: Time is on the Side of a Better Iran Deal
Prior to the "interim deal" reached in November 2013, Iranian nuclear negotiators could—and did—play for time while the regime rapidly added more centrifuges and increased production of enriched uranium. That is no longer the case. For the first time in years, the...
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Keywords:
International Relations;
Negotiation Tactics;
Negotiation Deal;
Iran;
United States;
Iran;
United States
Sebenius, James K. "Ignore June 30: Time is on the Side of a Better Iran Deal." Iran Matters (June 28, 2015).
- 2007
- Working Paper
The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks
By: Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard Posner and Alvin E. Roth
In the past, judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the beginning of the second year of law school for positions commencing approximately two years down the road. In the new hiring regime for federal judicial law clerks, by contrast,...
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- 2012
- Comment
The Balanced Scorecard: Comments on Balanced Scorecard Commentaries
By: Robert S. Kaplan
This paper provides the author's insights about five papers written in this volume about his published work on the balanced scorecard (BSC). The author finds that academic commentary on the BSC often ignores its role in strategy execution. The paper discusses how the...
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Keywords:
Strategy Execution;
Performance Management;
Strategy;
Public Sector;
Balanced Scorecard;
Performance
Kaplan, Robert S. "The Balanced Scorecard: Comments on Balanced Scorecard Commentaries." Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 8, no. 4 (2012): 539–545.
- December 2000 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
Reverend Jeffrey Brown: Cops, Kids and Ministers
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Alexis Lefort
Introduces Reverend Jeffrey Brown, one of the cofounders of the Ten Point Coalition in Boston, Mass. The Ten Point Coalition, a group of ministers that worked to change the dynamics between the Boston Police Department and the kids on the street, was instrumental in...
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Keywords:
Change;
Civil Society or Community;
Alliances;
Interpersonal Communication;
Power and Influence;
Law Enforcement;
City;
Boston
McGinn, Kathleen L., and Alexis Lefort. "Reverend Jeffrey Brown: Cops, Kids and Ministers." Harvard Business School Case 801-284, December 2000. (Revised May 2002.)
- 08 Jul 2014
- News
Reframing infrastructure: It's really mobility
- 31 Dec 2010
- News
Entrepreneur for the World Award
- 02 Aug 2017
- News
Why Do Women Bully Each Other at Work?
- 12 Apr 2022
- Video
Cash House Honors a Prolific Teacher, Author, and Scholar
- Research Summary
Deep Indicators of Business Model Success
By: James L. Heskett
The purpose of this study is to develop ways of helping practitioners identify and measure deep indicators of success in the business models being pursued by their organizations. The hypothesis is that success is dependent on these deep indicators. The indicators are...
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- September 1999 (Revised November 1999)
- Case
Explore, Inc.
Documents the creation of a national before and after-school day care program aimed at bridging the gap between school and parents' work schedules. This high-growth, for-profit social enterprise organization operated in what was historically the domain of nonprofit or...
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Keywords:
Microeconomics;
Growth and Development;
Order Taking and Fulfillment;
Mission and Purpose;
Performance Expectations;
Quality;
Social Enterprise;
Travel Industry
Grossman, Allen S., James E. Austin, Myra M. Hart, and Sharon Peyus. "Explore, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 300-011, September 1999. (Revised November 1999.)
- Web
The Benefits of a Residential Campus - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- March 2013
- Article
Breaking Them in or Eliciting Their Best? Reframing Socialization around Newcomers' Authentic Self-expression
By: Daniel M. Cable, Francesca Gino and Brad Staats
Socialization theory has focused on enculturating new employees such that they develop pride in their new organization and internalize its values. Drawing on authenticity research, we propose that the initial stage of socialization leads to more effective employment...
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Keywords:
Socialization;
Authenticity;
Self-Expression;
Best Self;
Outsourcing;
Employee Retention;
Organizational Culture;
Retention;
Identity;
Customer Satisfaction
Cable, Daniel M., Francesca Gino, and Brad Staats. "Breaking Them in or Eliciting Their Best? Reframing Socialization around Newcomers' Authentic Self-expression." Administrative Science Quarterly 58, no. 1 (March 2013): 1–36.
- November 2010
- Case
Spudnik, Inc.
By: William A. Sahlman and Elizabeth A. Kind
This case describes the plan to finance a revolutionary new television set manufacturing business in late 2009. Yatin Mundkur, a venture capitalist at Artiman Ventures, has recruited a team of veteran eecutives from the optical disk drive business, to design large...
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Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 2016
- Book
Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government
By: Rosario Patalano and Sophus A. Reinert
Little is known of Antonio Serra except that he wrote his extraordinary 1613 Short Treatise on the Causes That Make Kingdoms Abound in Gold and Silver even in the Absence of Mines in a Neapolitan jail and that he died there soon afterwards. However, the...
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Patalano, Rosario and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government. Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- 2011
- Working Paper
Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990
By: Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski
This working paper examines corporate strategies of political risk management during the twentieth century. It focuses especially on Beiersdorf, a German-based pharmaceutical and skin care company. During World War I the expropriation of its brands and trademarks...
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Keywords:
History;
Risk Management;
Business History;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Corporate Strategy;
Intellectual Property;
Cooperation;
Business and Government Relations;
Germany
Jones, Geoffrey, and Christina Lubinski. "Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-003, July 2011.
- 17 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?
Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas...
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by Tim Gray
- 2007
- Working Paper
Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms: A Synthesis
This paper constructs a unified theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks of tasks. Transactions, defined as mutually agreed-upon transfers with compensation, are located...
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Keywords:
Geographic Location;
Market Entry and Exit;
Market Transactions;
Industry Structures;
Production;
Boundaries;
Theory
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms: A Synthesis." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-013, September 2007.
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
immigrants. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54963 Reverse the Curse of the Top-5 By: Kaplan, Robert S. Abstract—The past 40 years has seen a large increase in the number of articles submitted View Details
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Dina Gerdeman