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- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
could reshape capitalism and its relationship to society. It could also drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy as it opens managers'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
behavior shaped modern American business? A: American business history is chock full of man-of-action hero stories: Edison, Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Ray Kroc, on and on. But the man-of-action hero receded in... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 16 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 16, 2007
School Note 808-021 Explores the core issues involved in compensating family employees in a family business. Explains family interests and other factors that shape family employee compensation practices.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 20
Industry Author: Geoffrey Jones Publication: Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010 Abstract The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16
economic theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to facilitate efficient capital allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP, as shaped by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
family business structures are discussed in the context of how they shaped the business environment in pre-war China and continue to influence Chinese enterprise culture in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details
- 23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their company’s core business. Distinct from nonmarket strategy and traditional corporate social responsibility, the recent wave of CEO activism... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
paths. He met with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss professionalization and how business schools shape—and have been shaped by—societal forces and values. Martha Lagace: What led you into this analysis? Rakesh Khurana: Since I was a... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
with better defining the board's role is also linked to their views on board involvement in shaping company strategy. Both questions turn on another matter: how well the board... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009
Expanded Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new to this edition, including the 2008 update to his classic "The Five... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016
September 2016 Harvard Business Review How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—The toughest calls managers have to make come in situations when they have worked hard to gather the facts and have done View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
working on next? A: My research interests are at the intersection of accounting, economics, and politics. I am working on several projects on how political forces shape accounting standards. One project,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007
designs. At higher frequency, managers use designs to search for high-performing operational choices. The two searches are coupled: organizational design molds the choice among operational alternatives, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
and succeed beyond imagination. It is easy to think that such imposing and rare figures shape history through the power of their leadership, and only their leadership. But that was never View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 22 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 22
and with the firm's future performance. The results do not support the view that executive and outside directors use their connections to extract rents. Rather View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
explores how language shapes the ways in which employees who work in global organizations communicate and negotiate linguistic and cultural differences. Bringing together 650 interviews conducted across... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
shapes one's perceptions, emotions, creative imagination, thinking, planning, and consequently one's actions in the exercise of leadership. Being a leader and the effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006
Stadtmuseum. Dusseldorf: Hatje Cantz Verlag (Forthcoming) (Forthcoming) Abstract The article examines how a group of leading Düsseldorf businessmen during the first wave of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14
Publisher's link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/10.1111/jacf.12102/abstract April 2015 CEIBS Business Review The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors By: Teixeira, Thales S., and Peter Jamieson Abstract—A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne