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- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
directions to meet future needs. The Boeing board’s repeated CEO failures resulted from this approach of choosing people who applied the same leadership formula. Business allow the current CEO to dominate the hiring process. Many boards... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
making and the culmination of HBS’s yearlong centennial observance, the three-day event was designed to galvanize thinking and action around the 21st century’s transcendent business challenges. What no one expected, but what dominated the... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/118090-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-486 AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century By the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
immigrants made a conspicuous impact. Part I demonstrates the dominant role of immigrants in forming public financial policies from 1775 to 1817. Part II surveys 12 merchant and investment banking firms founded during the nineteenth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
historically the key institutions that have collected and responded to reports of side effects in the United States since the early 19th century. Three major periods emerge from this survey: an era of professional control; an era of regulation by the state; and a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
competing on the basis of discounts, U.S. carmakers need to get to the point where people want to buy their cars. —Stefan Thomke Although the Big 3 (or maybe the Big 2, after Chrysler's merger with Daimler) continue to dominate the U.S.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
dominated by the Sunnis. To some extent, the Shias had been sort of grudgingly accepting of it, as long as there was room for gradual improvement. In the last twenty years, this kind of accommodation was turned upside down by the... View Details
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
Created by the people for the people, the American political system is instead "a private industry dominated by a textbook duopoly—the Democrats and the Republicans—and plagued and perverted by unhealthy competition between... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Disney or Pixar. Instead, anime producers are locked into a highly fragmented domestic market, dominated by content distributors (TV stations and DVD companies) and advertising agencies. We argue that Japan has to adopt legislation in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
dominant means of communication within companies. Our particular interest is in how organizations coordinate across their many internal divisions (e.g., functions, business units, geographic offices, pay grades, job ranks). Studying... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
reason a lot of our mainstream pop culture is so dominated by certain stereotypes is honestly because of the people who create that content. Once I realized that I could create content that’s more reflective of what I think my children... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- Web
DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
sell when somebody was doing well and clean up on the profit." 46 DEC reigned as the second largest computer company in the world after IBM and the dominant player in the minicomputer industry. 47 "[I]t was a sea change in the attitudes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
mainstream, in a climate where fear and anger and frustration dominate the horizon.” Concluded Ross, “Negotiations are about what's achievable, not impossible. They are about identifying an objective that makes sense given the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
myself as a quarterback. I try to figure out where the receiver will be before I release the ball. I knew we had a phenomenal opportunity to build a significant brand in Panera Bread, but years of experience also taught me how difficult it is to build a nationally... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
the case. In the U.S. service sector, which makes up two-thirds of our economy, inflation is still running at 3 percent. So while some manufacturing businesses are experiencing price deflation for the first time in the postwar era, the View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
compensation used to consist of cash, in the form of salaries and bonuses, executive wealth today is dominated by stock-option holdings. This, in turn, has led to dramatic yearly swings in executive wealth, which are largely tied to huge... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
Although China has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it still suffers from a weak financial system dominated by state-controlled banks and severely limited access to capital for private entrepreneurs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
production. Most of that market, says Shen—who oversaw the acquisition of Swedish carmaker Volvo by the Chinese auto giant Geely—is dominated by low-speed vehicles that possess even more limited utility than American compliance cars.... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
The Role of Employee Proactivity Authors:A. M. Grant, F. Gino, and D. Hofmann Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Extraversion predicts leadership emergence and effectiveness, but do groups perform more effectively under extraverted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
in creating the personal computer industry; the department store Dayton-Hudson launched Target; and Hewlett-Packard created and grew to dominate the disruptive ink-jet printer business. When they follow the rules we've described in our... View Details