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- 29 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?
and took a plunge into the unknown. A relatively small number of largely older, uneducated voters decided that the younger generations of Britons who voted to remain should instead face the growing global competition on their own rather... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
graduate from HBS in Spring 2009. He must decide whether to join his father's company, Toronto-based AME Learning, as president working alongside his father who will be CEO. AME has been in business for 12 years, mostly as a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
Editor's note: Please see related story, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It's Effective. To what extent companies contribute to a sustainable society is a question increasingly important, not only to the companies themselves, but also to investors, the countries... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
"It is difficult to conceive of a child as commerce," writes Harvard Business School professor Debora L. Spar in her new book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception. In fact, baby... View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
seen a variation on this story? Getting the Bosses' Approval From Ted Watson The general idea—hardly unique to us—was to do business consistently across all of our operating units. We would have the same approach to conducting any... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
is happening is business as usual. Microsoft is facing a race with time and the markets to re-deploy monopoly profits from a waning desktop opportunity in order to become more competitive with sumos in other parts of the information... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
integration. The reason is that at low prices, increases in revenue resulting from enhanced productivity are too small to justify the cost, whereas at high prices, the revenue benefit exceeds the cost. Trade policy provides a source of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
as the relevant risks. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/213019-PDF-ENG Angry Birds Gupta, Sunil, and Dharmishta RoodHarvard Business School Case 512-033 Within months of its launch in December 2009, Angry Birds, a mobile game... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
MaterialsHarvard Business School Executive Education: Balancing Online and Offline Marketing John Deighton and Leora KornfeldHarvard Business School Case 510-091 How does a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
"The Changing Structure of the Global Wine Industry," won the Best Paper award at the 2003 European Applied Business Research Conference. Roberto recently shared his thoughts on wine for HBS Working Knowledge in an e-mail... View Details
- 11 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?
then at least in the fog” "We negotiate, if not in the dark, then at least in the fog," says Michael Wheeler, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and retired MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice, who taught... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
private firms differs.” So when Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Joan Farre-Mensa learned he'd been granted access to a database of accounting information on tens of thousands of private American firms, he knew it was an... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
After decades of destructive outsourcing, America's ability to innovate and create high-tech products essential for future prosperity is on the decline, argue professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih. They won the prestigious McKinsey Award for their July-August 2009... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
cost-look ahead, investigate, and announce a small set of choices to the rest of the organization. Starting from that definition, the paper studies what makes a decision "strategic" and what makes strategy important, considering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
be taken. The briefings were led mainly by health and epidemiology experts who had limited political affiliation. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact... View Details
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
directors accountable to company owners." Major business groups lost no time denouncing the reform measures as vehicles for ceding enormous power to a small number of special-interest investors, namely,... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
technologies developed by the Sony Corporation. In this same astonishingly brief period, Japan's computer makers had become Europe's dominant suppliers of large computer systems and had captured the U.S. market in memory chips. International View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Nalls Harvard Business School Case 808-167 Barry Nalls describes lessons learned during his 25-year career-his rise at GTE and shorter-lived ventures—and how these prepared him to found MASERGY, a telecommunications start-up. Even as a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training
2009, Harvard Business School Professor Kathleen McGinn has developed keen insight into the exigent nature of such challenges. Her experiences there prompted her to study how teaching communication and negotiation skills at critical... View Details
Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
Business School. "That could be both potentially positive and negative. There is a lot of critically acclaimed artwork that could be systematically overlooked by crowds. On the other hand, you could imagine that experts aren't always good... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Recreation