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J. Peter Grace

Grace dramatically grew the company through massive diversification efforts. In 1950, Latin American operations brought in 60% of W.R. Grace & Company sales. Grace’s diversification efforts decreased the above percentage to only 19% View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

02 Apr 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Strategic Foresight as Dynamic Capability: A New Lens on Knightian Uncertainty

Keywords: by J. Peter Scoblic

01 Oct 2000
News

Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney

In January 2000, Thomas J. Tierney (MBA 1980) announced that he would step aside as worldwide managing director of Bain & Company, a position he had held since 1992, and become chairman of The Bridge Group, a new Bain affiliate. Tierney's... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

August 1974 (Revised April 1983)
Case

Peter Olafson (A)

By: John J. Gabarro

Describes the problems facing a recent MBA graduate in his job as general manager of a cable television company owned by a parent corporation. Raises issues of corporate divisional relationships and the difficulties facing an inexperienced manager who seems to be... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Television Entertainment; Managerial Roles; Organizational Design; Problems and Challenges

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01 Dec 1999
News

The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World

professor Ernest R. Berndt), HBS professor Alvin J. Silk looks at both internal and external forces affecting the industry, with particular attention to the impact of the Internet. According to Silk and his colleagues, changes in the... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

19 May 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

Keywords: by Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth & John J. Siegfried

01 Jun 1996
News

Reinventing Marketing

featuring Professor Gerald Zaltman's pioneering marketing research method, ZMET, which uses visual images to tap into consumer feelings; Entrepreneurial Marketing, taught by Thomas J. Kosnik, a visiting... View Details

Keywords: Mary Jane Higgins; Illustration by Peter Hoey

01 Oct 2000
News

The Class of 1975 in Review

on the board to illustrate human interactions. Hunt Greene's high bet wasn't looking too promising until Lawrence, bewildered by Hunt's off-the-wall comments, offered him the chalk to illustrate his theory. Much to the amusement of the... View Details

Keywords: J. Hans Stumm

23 May 2011
News

Nearly Half of Americans Are 'Financially Fragile'

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

17 Aug 2010
News

Economy Led to Cuts in Use of Health Care

09 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

climbed more than three-fold in the United States. In Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, openings skyrocketed by at least a factor of five. That said, in Miami; Savannah, Georgia; and Memphis, job listings with one or... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

16 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

that premise to a new level, opening a four-story, 22,000-square-foot boutique on Fifth Avenue designed by architect Peter Marino that features details such as flashing LED screens and a staircase made of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

02 Oct 2008
What Do You Think?

Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

months. But to what degree should the U.S. government take advantage of free markets to free them up when they become frozen? Can it employ the "Buffett Effect" to do so? Or is the analogy even appropriate? Should this be called a workout rather than a bailout? So many... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

Douglas B. Holt says brand managers have little appreciation for how myths in American culture can be used to create "extraordinary" brand-building opportunities. In this e-mail interview, Holt discusses a recent working paper (with coauthor Craig View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

normal. Robert S. Huckman (@robert_huckman) is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the faculty chair of the HBS Health Care Initiative. Virtual medicine will become a standard... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

05 Mar 2009
What Do You Think?

How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?

Comments were replete with advice to leaders regarding honesty, candor, and an optimistic bias. Zack Allen advised, "Honesty is the best policy (but it) does not mean being a nay-sayer or a wet blanket." Peter Bowie suggested... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Mar 2011
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

Influence Social Judgements and Decisions," Science, 2010. Amy Cuddy, "Just Because I'm Nice, Don't Assume I'm Dumb," Harvard Business Review, February, 2009, p. __. Amy J. C. Cuddy, Susan T. Fiske, and View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Newfarmer, Peter Walkenhorst (eds.) (2009), Breaking Into New Markets: Emerging Lessons for Export Diversification, World Bank, Washington, D.C.: 2009. Wood, A., J. Mayer (2009). "Has China... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Digital Designs on the Inner City

the inner city will require a commitment not only by the government, but also by the private sector, a five-member panel, moderated by Randal Pinkett of the MIT Media... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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