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- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
a lucrative deal intended to help Quibi compete with a growing pack of streaming services on the prowl for content. Netflix, for one, has been acquiring content at a pace almost no one can match and reportedly spent $12 billion on content... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
914-014 Ford Asia Pacific & Africa: The E-coating Facility Decision in Gujarat, India (A) In April 2013, Ford Asia Pacific & Africa (FAPA) was examining its options for e-coating service metal parts for the Ford Customer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
by accessing his commitment to the larger purpose. Historians and biographers have pointed to a number of Lincoln’s strengths and their role in his leadership. But one of the most significant of these strengths is not often mentioned, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
Globe is in 2012. Will you do it and the program again? For now, I’m giving talks, and there’s a book in the works. As for 2012, we know how to do successful school programs. If we could get distribution channel commitment to our other core constituencies, asthma and... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
with very specific practices and identifiable cultures. For example, City Year, the national youth service organization, has programs in fourteen cities across the country. Its founders made a strategic decision from the start to spread a... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
program’s “network” effect. In addition to being able to connect with fellows within and beyond their fellowship cohort, fellows benefit enormously from access to the program’s individual donors. This combination enhances the fellowship... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
within people affect performance in tasks that involve interactions between people through two mechanisms: role-immersion, operationalized as intrinsic motivation, and role-taking, operationalized as perspective-taking. In Study 1, a longitudinal field study of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
cited miscoordination, miscommunication, poor access to resources, and bad planning as barriers to accomplishment. These are management basics, but if they are ignored, they not only impede creativity, but also make life absolutely... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
coerced income and wealth transfer and diversion produced first by slavery; then by official segregation; and then by various forms of discrimination in employment, education, and other markets, especially in residential housing, access... View Details
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
with valuable, current business and management knowledge. If companies wanted new hires with cutting-edge insights, they'd hire an MBA. According to several deans, that's no longer true. Financial services and consulting firms, which hire... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
voided. With members scattered across the country and no access to a suitable performing venue, Prieto had cause. “To his immense credit, he stepped up to the challenge,” Long says. But really, Prieto couldn’t fathom breaking the... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
economies to land politics. Dalian, benefitting from early access to foreign capital, consolidated control over urban territory through the designation of a development zone, which realigned local economic interests and introduced dual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
across the financial system if they failed (think Lehman). Financial institutions that pose such a threat are the financial equivalent of nuclear power plants, providing an important service in many cases but also posing a profound danger... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
actionable advice on more robust policies that drive both structural change and competitiveness upgrading. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53152 Harvard Business School Case 615-022 IDEO: Human-Centered View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
and accessible and taking action on ideas or reporting back on why action can't or won't be taken. These are behavioral skills that all of us can continue to practice and improve. These don't need to be grand, highly contrived actions.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
clearer in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the United States, the building of the railroads after 1850 led to the development of mass markets for the first time. Along with improved access to capital and credit, mass markets... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
think about his successor. ConAgra had become the second-largest food company and No. 1 food service supplier in the United States. Rohde believed that the company, with its solid portfolio of brands and history of leadership in important... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Oral history also permits a level of nuance that is hard to obtain even if written documents exist and are accessible in corporate and governmental archives. Oral histories can provide insights into why... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
where they might be applied. We want to make common academic techniques more accessible to practitioners and to encourage their use in solving real business problems. Q: Many managers continue to use traditional methods for allocating... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
business strategy, its capabilities, and the market realities it faced weren't accessible to him or, ultimately, to the organization at large. The problem that Ludwig faced—leading an organization that didn't have the ability to conduct... View Details