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- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
disparity, non-sustainable use of resources, and discontent. What we need most is not innovation from the physical sciences ... but innovation from the social sciences." Is the world really flat when it... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
new opportunities. Empires of Profit: Commerce, Conquest and Corporate Responsibility Author Daniel Litvin presented his evidence that modern companies find it difficult to operate on foreign soil. Big companies, in spite of their wealth,... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- April 2010
- Teaching Note
Global Talent Management at Novartis (TN)
By: Jordan I. Siegel
Teaching Note for 708486. View Details
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
Summing Up Readers of this month's column agree that there are marked differences in the social environment for management in Europe and the United States. In some parts of Europe, at least, they foster... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
increasing the size of the market or increasing existing customers' purchases through the channel. A second, more subtle outcome is a more tightly woven, and yet adaptable, channel. Stewardship is not a View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
the deeper meaning of work is part of a significant change occurring in the way work is being perceived and structured. As Peter Vaill notes, social and View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
A few years ago, Sandra J. Sucher received worried emails from two MBA students in her first-year Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) class at Harvard Business School. Elana Green (now Elana Silver) View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
full lockdown has significant economic consequences, as most commercial activity comes to a halt. Also, in democratic societies, a complete lockdown is difficult and likely impossible to enforce. This is why... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
theories and developing new ones. Q: Professor Josh Lerner recently published an article ["Boom and Bust in the Venture Capital Industry and the Impact on... View Details
- March 1983 (Revised January 1984)
- Case
Merloni Group
The general manager of the recently-established French subsidiary of an Italian appliance company is in conflict with headquarters about unexpectedly poor financial performance. Headquarters management believes it should be able to exert more control over the... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Trade; Organizational Structure; Performance Evaluation; Power and Influence; France; Italy
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Merloni Group." Harvard Business School Case 383-152, March 1983. (Revised January 1984.)
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
later Twitter acquired competing app Periscope and cut off Meerkat’s access to Twitter’s social graph. And then there was the iPhone flashlight app from Noah Corp., which... View Details
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
trouble if they don't go well. Perhaps the brand with the most to gain—or lose—is Mother Russia, which paid a record $51 billion to host the Games, and has a rare opportunity to show it has shaken off its View Details
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
in what people think, and you need to find the right people to talk to you,” says Elkins, a professor of history and African and African American Studies at Harvard, View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
Summing Up Is "Collateral Damage" from Economic Bubbles Inevitable, Necessary, and Useful? According to the old saw, markets are made by differences of opinion. If that's the case, there is a real... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
believe it is not only of profound importance to contemporary readers, but also will be seminal secondary source for economic and political historians for generations to come. If you own a copy, keep it. A... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen