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  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

the capacity to curb its influence. Empire-Building or Bridge-Building? Evidence from New CEOs' Internal Capital Allocation Decisions Author:Yuhai Xuan Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates how the job View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

innovation strategy under market uncertainty is also addressed. Purchase this note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508090 Myths and Lessons of Modern Chinese History Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

uses a unique panel dataset that allows us to track the career histories of individuals across firms. We find that an individual is more likely to become an entrepreneur if his or her co-workers have been entrepreneurs before, or if the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Sep 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing

embarrassing—it can hurt your career. Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart DiscriminationPoor design decisions contribute to racial discrimination on many online platforms. Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future CompensationWhy you... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2022
  • Case

Air Wars: Deregulating the U.S. Airline Industry

By: Tom Nicholas and James Weber
In the early decades of the twentieth century, the U.S. government assisted in the development of an airline industry by subsidizing the delivery of mail and allowing mail carriers to also fly passengers. Because the government awarded mail routes to the lowest... View Details
Keywords: Government Regulation; Deregulation; Change Management; Economics; Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Business History; Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Labor; Labor Unions; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Industry Structures; Operations; Strategy; Adaptation; Competition; Air Transportation; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

more just, and greener society, and this entails reforming our economic system and the way businesses operate. Even though these changes that diverge from deeply rooted norms are challenging to implement, now is the time to push for them. As we know from View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

innovations, making it financially independent from corporate funding. The case explores HP's history in Singapore and the role of the EDB in encouraging the growth of local R&D capabilities. The case poses questions on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

specialize in their respective niches—politely eying each other and making sure not to overlap too directly. Such niche specialization is a fixture of many other nascent markets. It remains to be seen whether more head-on competition will occur later; however, if the... View Details
Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
  • 19 Nov 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

teaching leadership development programs (and even members of a leadership team inside a business), to feel confident in their ability to teach any of the class sessions, modules, or the entire course," Sucher explains. We asked Sucher to discuss her View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707486 Corporate Venture Capital at Eli Lilly Harvard Business School Case 806-092 Reviews the role of corporate venture capital and its history at Eli Lilly. Also presents a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2020
  • Article

Inconvenient Truths: Interpreting the Origins of the Internet

By: Shane Greenstein
A conventional economic narrative provides intellectual underpinnings for governments to subsidize research and development ("R&D") that coordinates risky research to benefit many in society. This essay compares this narrative with the origins and invention of the... View Details
Keywords: Lead Users; Technology Transfer; Internet and the Web; History; Analysis; Research and Development; Governance; Information Technology; Policy
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  • April 4, 2009
  • Article

The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid?

By: Aldo Musacchio and Francisco Flores-Macias
The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 has prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as Venezuela,... View Details
Keywords: History; Private Ownership; State Ownership; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations
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  • December 2007
  • Case

Envisioning "Free Banking" in Antebellum New York (A)

By: David A. Moss and Cole Bolton
Banks throughout New York State suspended specie payments (i.e., payments in gold and silver) in May 1837 following the collapse of several state banks and the onset of a nationwide financial panic. Amid the chaos, the upstart Whigs were able to depose the longstanding... View Details
Keywords: History; Government Legislation; Capital; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; New York (state, US)
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  • July 2022 (Revised February 2025)
  • Case

A Soul and a Service: North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance

By: Tom Nicholas and John Masko
The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association (the Mutual) was founded in 1898 as a for-profit entity selling life insurance catering to the Black community. The Mutual was entering a field crowded with established White-owned competitors that largely refused to... View Details
Keywords: Black Entrepreneurs; Insurance; History; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Entrepreneurship; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Insurance Industry; United States
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  • 14 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition

time. The approach is novel but, when properly implemented, quite powerful. The entire history of the T-shaped manager at BP is one of continually fine-tuning the tension between the manager's horizontal and vertical roles, an evolution... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
  • 01 Aug 2007
  • Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

Ernst & Young, or McKinsey should all get a shot at becoming candidates to run cities and districts with a history of corruption. Entities that are experts at municipal accounting, consulting to foreign governments, or providing... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

What can companies today take away from the experience of myriad multinationals in the United States? A lot, says HBS professor Geoffrey G. Jones, a specialist in business history and international business. In the following e-mail... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

and how much, to use fiscal stimulus to resuscitate the economy. To help students understand Obama's options, the case reviews both the recent tax cuts under President George W. Bush, including the supply-side and demand-management justification given for them, and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

Development Corp. in 1946, there's a history of the venture capital industry. Not many other countries have this history nor the large-scale investment role models. But now with the Internet wave, it's as if... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

or transition into commercial retail and office buildings, which offer growth potential and unique challenges. Groom Energy must also decide which geographic regions provide the best opportunity. This case study provides background on the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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