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- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
boardroom in 2019, moved to the Delaware Court of Chancery in 2021, and ultimately led to a Securities and Exchange Commission sanction in 2023, which attracted HBS Baker Foundation Professor Lynn S. Paine to the tale. An expert on... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
companies that managed the restructuring process successfully, despite facing huge obstacles, to highlight "best practice" (although in several cases I did not know what the outcome would be when I first contacted the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
average compounded growth rate over that time has been about 22 percent. Acquisitions have been an important part of your growth strategy since the mid-1990s. How do you manage to fold an acquired firm into... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54887 forthcoming Production and Operations Management The Operational Value of Social Media Information By: Cui, Ruomeng, Santiago Gallino, Antonio Moreno, and Dennis J. Zhang... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 May 2013
- News
Alex Popa, MBA 2007
long-held passion. “I was deeply involved in the sciences in high school and at Stanford, and I truly believe genomics is the business field that will lead to the fastest rate of innovation in my lifetime. As an investor too, I see it as... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
management involved issues such as access, cost, and quality. I saw my two passions — medicine and public policy — combined in a single field." A nudge toward that realization came from former HBS Dean Lawrence Fouraker, who, while a... View Details
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. "If you're one of them and you're not getting a kidney, you should be able to understand why and what the criteria are." A Long Line About 500,000 people in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
a potential rate of return as high as 40 percent, but there are significant hurdles to clear, too. For one, private investors could find themselves at the whim of the Maha-rashtra state government, which is itself often swayed by powerful... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Green as Gold
though, and you’ll find that Hamilton has been renewed by a marriage of technology and environmental sustainability. “Basically, the only thing we kept was the building’s exterior shell,” says Jason Carlson, project manager for contractor... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
self-proclaimed "infrastructure guy," panelist Steve Papa (HBS MBA '99) of Optigrab.com speculated that the future of e-business services will be marked by the same pull toward uniformity that took place in industry consolidations a hundred years ago. Numerous stock... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
BC; Lucerne, Switzerland. It’s a way to see where we are. I couldn’t understand why we didn’t have a bike trail in Napa.” The push for a cycles-only pathway had been attempted before, in part because Napa has the ninth-highest bicycle accident View Details
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
American reasons: to "raise capital and maintain management control," which they couldn't do in Hong Kong. Hong Kong believes in the principle that each share of stock is entitled to one vote. The US markets, on the other hand,... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
merger would sail through the antitrust review. But while it did pass easily through the U.S. review—no doubt further reinforcing his confidence—it smashed on the rocks in Europe. Had Welch recognized the potential for a negative decision ahead of time, he almost... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
development he terms "the collaborative continuum." "Recognizing that relationships can evolve along this continuum, forward or backward," he says, "is a useful strategic tool for managers who are assessing what type of relationship... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is mandated by rigid HR rules and is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
watching television can deliver higher than expected audiences at lower cost-per-thousand impressions. Brands with deep pockets may be able to negotiate favorable advertising rates and lock them in for several years. If you have to cut... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 04 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?
show us a way of regaining what we have lost." Another reason for such insecurity, Reinhold Gerbsch proposes, is "the increasing rate of change in the marketplace." Citing an old Buddhist saying, "When the pupil is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
rates, deal premiums, and completion rates in the UK, relative to the other European G-10 countries. We find that M&A deal volumes in the UK declined significantly in the aftermath of the 2011 Reforms, relative to deal volumes in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
between a passion and analytical thinking. How is it that they managed to pull this off and what can we all learn from that example? Wasserman: I remember observing when I was teaching in HBS’s first-year course in entrepreneurship, that... View Details