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- 02 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
Four Companies that Conquered America
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Accounting... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 21 Apr 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Why Do Firms Use Non-Linear Incentive Schemes? Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Overconfidence
Keywords: by Ian Larkin & Stephen Leider
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System
organization. The Toyota Production System grew out of the workings of the company over 50 years, and it has never actually been written down. Making the implicit explicit, the authors lay out four principles that show how Toyota sets up... View Details
- 05 Nov 2024
- Book
Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech
Matter in Remote Work How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working View Details
- 13 Sep 2010
- News
Harvard Business School Welcomes Nine Entrepreneurs-in-Residence
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
generations. What doors are opening? Which remain closed? The book, written by Harvard Business School's Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin Nohria, and Boston College's Laura G. Singleton, is the second in a trilogy on leadership and leaders from... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Medallia
true differentiator is the authenticity of our people and, by extension, our culture. Is there anything else you would like to share with fellow recruiters or those who are new to recruiting with HBS? It is a pleasure to View Details
Keywords: Technology
- October 1995 (Revised June 1996)
- Case
Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd.
Li & Fung, one of the largest export trading companies in Asia, works primarily as an agent to connect U.S. and European manufacturers and retailers of nondurable, mass-market consumer goods with suppliers located all over East Asia who manufacture products according... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Marketplace Matching; Supply Chain Management; Trade; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; Asia; United States; Europe
Loveman, Gary W., and Jamie O'Connell. "Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 396-075, October 1995. (Revised June 1996.)
- Research Summary
Vicarious Learning in Organizations
To advance the study of how individuals learn through their interactions with others, Professor Myers has adopted a vicarious learning theory lens. Vicarious learning allows individuals to learn from the outcomes of others’ experiences, rather than solely their own... View Details
John P. Kotter
John P. Kotter is internationally known and widely regarded as the foremost speaker on the topics of Leadership and Change. His is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually achieve successful transformations. The Konosuke... View Details
- Research Summary
Bringing Worlds Together: Cultural Brokerage in Multicultural Teams (Dissertation)
Multicultural teams are becoming increasingly prevlaent and crucial for organizational success, yet they face many challenges that stem from their cultural differences. How can multicultural teams mitigate the risks of working across... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
Many executives believe that leadership development is a job for the HR department. This may be the single biggest misconception they can have. As corporations have broken down work into manageable activities and then consolidated... View Details
- April 1993 (Revised October 1996)
- Case
ABB Deutschland (C)
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
Addresses the results and the lessons from the German restructuring effort by focusing in detail on the relationship with the works council and the actions taken for power plants and power transformers, and the sales organization. Closes with a "second wave" of cost... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Trade; Cost Management; Leadership Style; Management Skills; Time Management; Relationships; Salesforce Management
Uyterhoeven, Hugo. "ABB Deutschland (C)." Harvard Business School Case 393-132, April 1993. (Revised October 1996.)
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
When Jamie Cheney (MBA 2007) and Annie Davis (MBA 2007) studied together at Yale for their undergrad and later at HBS for their graduate degrees, they had no idea that they would end up working together – or... View Details
- 11 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size
- Career Coach
Doug Lester
Doug’s approach to career and executive coaching is informed by over ten years in marketing, digital, and general management roles at Johnson & Johnson and other Fortune 500 companies. He offers perspective as a former executive recruiter... View Details
Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia
Organizations today can use both crowds and experts to produce knowledge. While prior work compares the accuracy of crowd-produced and expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective,... View Details
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
millions of dollars for the most senior partners, as well as for unequaled exposure to colleagues and clients of the highest caliber working together to tackle pressing problems faced by the world's leading... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
Competitiveness: Paths Forward," an HBS initiative, was an appearance by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, who was brought in by wheelchair but rose to his feet to speak about... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette