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- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
himself to return to the family business. In his second year in the MBA Program, Goldberg cross-registered for a course "across the river" with Professor John D. Black, a prominent agricultural economist who became his mentor... View Details
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
Hare said, “Should we do better in investing in people? They’re an asset of course we should!” Guy Higgins and Lewisman agreed, with conditions: “ (as with the GI Bill) make the offer to men View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
from an alumnus to the president of The Ohio State University at the time, demanding a reprimand or worse. How times change. Of course, a few years later, president Richard Nixon embarked on his momentous trip that literally changed the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Doing Business In China Kirby and his colleagues have collectively studied the country for decades, and distill the book from insights gleaned in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
CEOs face difficult choices when deciding to speak out under the company's brand. Credit: fizkes Summing Up: Should Boards Specify Limits on CEO Activism? Opinions about suitable CEO activism—taking public positions and actions on social... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
Summing Up The jury is in. Nearly all respondents to this month's column would advise U.S. firms such as Yahoo, Google, Cisco, and Microsoft to continue to operate in China despite the government's possible use of their content or... View Details
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
an effort to differentiate by being more locally sourced and thereby fresher, as perceived by consumers, Chipotle was perhaps putting its brand at greater reputational risk.” Companies are increasingly outsourcing their food inspection... View Details
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
What should Jim do? The array of ethical choices forms the basis of discussion in the MBA required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Supply And Demand... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets
Are international firms that interact with U.S. capital, labor, and product markets more likely to be more transparent than companies without those interactions? In this e-mail interview, HBS Suraj Srinivasan delves into a recent working... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
they won't know what the video is advertising. The solution, based on Teixeira's research, is a technique called "brand pulsing," wherein the brand or product is shown repeatedly but not too intrusively throughout the course of the video.... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
face. More than 1,500 MBA students at Harvard Business School have experienced these groups since 2005, as well as participants in executive education courses and World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
and students, since the case studies in the book were developed for a course on corporate restructuring that I have taught here at Harvard Business School for the past eight years. (I have also taught these... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
focusing on disruptive technologies, offers his analysis of the Twitter IPO phenomenon. In our second-year MBA elective Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (a course developed by my colleague... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
by the firm's mission and saw that it had been self-sufficient for nearly seven years, Fisher's task became much easier: In three stages, over the course of 2000, she raised venture capital funds of $11... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
required strategy course at the Harvard Business School, and are taught in virtually every business school in the world. Professor Porter currently leads Harvard's programs for chief executive officers of... View Details
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
payment ... over and above the "normal" selling price?" Berglund answers his own question in suggesting that it depends on the extent to which the new (GE aircraft) engine (used in the hard-wiring example) differs from past... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
career relationships help to build up organizations. The study of careers seems to act as a powerful lens for examining the birth of biotech. Higgins, who specializes in research, teaching, and course... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
product." “"Whenever you invent something, you open up a trajectory and people are going to come after you.” The other choice companies have is to keep an idea secret in order to protect the value of the idea View Details
- 05 Apr 2021
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?
Administration Practice (AdPrac) course in the mid-1950s titled, “The Foreman: Master and Victim of Doubletalk.” Responses to last month’s column brought out reminders of the importance of middle management,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
complicated than we typically think,” she says. Huang arrived at that conclusion after interviews and observations of more than 100 angel investors over the course of the past decade. She also conducted... View Details