Filter Results:
(281)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(281)
- News (47)
- Research (219)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (112)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(281)
- News (47)
- Research (219)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (112)
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
consolidation. During the period 1897Ð1904 alone, 4,227 American companies were merged into 257 combinations, sometimes forcibly. By 1904, some 318 large firms were alleged to control about 40 percent of the entire nation's manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
totally honest with you.” The charter network faced a Chicago political landscape in upheaval, with a teacher strike looming and a heated mayoral race underway with education as a focal point. And then, in the fall of 2018, the organization’s founder and CEO stepped... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
California, where she spent years looking into alleged rule violations by its members. When, in 1998, state budget cuts gutted her department, Carson—by then an experienced, licensed investigator—decided to open her own shop. Her first... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
business. In those cases, the researchers found, NPEs were just as likely to sue regardless of whether the firm's profits were derived from the part of the business related to the alleged patent infringement or not. Hurting Innovation... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
It was in the late 1990s that the finger pointing began between Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier and its Brazilian competitor, Embraer. Each company alleged that the other was receiving government support that provided an unfair... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
in a responsible manner relative to the public and their own shareholders. In my view, these are the most widespread allegations of wrongdoing on Wall Street since World War II. People got sloppy. People got greedy. Now we've got to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
disclosures are related to subsequent allegations of corruption and subsequent performance. Firms with abnormally low anticorruption disclosures have higher subsequent media allegations of corruption than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
inappropriate touching that the person wouldn’t get a promotion or raise or might even be punished or fired? By tolerating bad behavior or allowing it to escalate, did the employer create a hostile work environment? Protect the accuser All the while, it’s important to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic patent trolls. NPEs sue cash-rich firms-a one standard deviation increase in cash holdings increases a firm's chance of being targeted by NPE litigation more than fourfold. We find moreover that NPEs target cash unrelated to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic “patent trolls.” NPEs sue cash-rich firms and target cash in business segments unrelated to alleged infringement at essentially the same frequency as they target cash in segments related to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
The alleged benefits of flattening flow primarily from pushing decisions downward to enhance customer and market responsiveness and to improve accountability and morale. Has flattening delivered on its promise to push decisions downward?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
in frequency and complexity as the virtual model spreads and takes root. Apple is in the extraordinarily uncomfortable position of suing one of its major suppliers, Samsung, for alleged patent infringement. And now, with Rana Plaza and... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
are voting with their feet. This hardly provides a stimulus for corporate investment. Executives are confronted with options so far underwater that they may not surface in the span of a management career. And employees are disillusioned by what they read repeatedly... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
of diversity There are others, however, who apparently fear that a more diverse and inclusive organization poses risks for executives, especially males. The fear is perhaps fueled by recent allegations of inappropriate workplace... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
can access contents on an alleged terrorist’s iPhone has generated a vigorous debate with daily developments. As they say, this is a big deal. It raises critical questions. Apple argues that doing what the FBI demands would potentially... View Details
- Web
1.16 Student Educational Records | MBA
they believe them to be inaccurate, misleading or otherwise in violation of their FERPA rights File a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education if they believe Harvard has not complied with the requirements of FERPA Be fully informed of their rights under FERPA.... View Details
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
difficult for ship owners to maximize their profitability and hence fewer steamships would have touched that port. It is possible then that telegraphic communication was at the heart of diminishing transport costs across the Atlantic. Despite the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
on average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic patent trolls. NPEs sue cash-rich firms—a one standard deviation increase in cash holdings roughly doubles a firm's chance of being targeted by NPE litigation. We find moreover that NPEs target cash unrelated to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
by students upon their admission to HBS, and we discuss them in depth when students first arrive - as part of the Foundations curriculum - and subsequently throughout the Program. We have a new community standards manager who oversees this area, investigates View Details
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
Russian authorities, ironically, on charges of embezzlement. The charges, which date back to 2009, allege that he defrauded the Russian region of Kirov. "Rospil.info" discusses the charges and considers whether they are... View Details