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- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
scholars to reintroduce entrepreneurship into the research agenda of business historians. We examine the value and limitations of adapting recent social scientific theories and methods on entrepreneurship to research on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
brands in the advertisements they watch," says Teixeira, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School who has spent the last four years figuring out the factors that make or break online ads. "In the past, when a company launched a... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
technologies developed by the Sony Corporation. In this same astonishingly brief period, Japan's computer makers had become Europe's dominant suppliers of large computer systems and had captured the U.S. market in memory chips. View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
panelists at a Global Alumni Conference session addressing the topic "Global Brands: Connecting with Consumers across Boundaries," chaired by HBS associate professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of the... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
While some countries enjoy the opportunity to serve on this powerful body, most countries rarely, if ever, get that chance. This gives rise to the question: does board membership lead to higher funding from the World Bank's two main development financing institutions,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
instance, to deal with the shortage of European immigrants, US employers recruited Mexican and Canadian immigrants and introduced labor-saving technologies. Cultural concerns drive fears more than economics—and such worries need to be taken seriously. View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 02 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?
Editor’s note: Concerns about data falsification and fabrication in a study conducted by Francesca Gino as part of this article have been shared by Harvard Business School with the publishing journal’s editor, along with a request that... View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
Summing Up The global corporation and globalization in general are poised to achieve new and different heights, if responses to this month's column are to be believed. As Greg Bownik put it, "for globalization to peak businesses... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government and the International Economy unit. "It's striking how much work has gone... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
This scenario, inspired by a Harvard Business School case, may ring familiar. It raises an increasingly prevalent, and difficult, management issue: how much information to share and when to share it. You look up to find the concerned face... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
heart of good and wise leadership. In the following excerpt, Lawrence describes how various forms of globalization—classic trading, international sales, and transnational outsourcing—reveal examples of good, bad, and misguided leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 17 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?
short run, increased efficiency due to reduced costs. In the long run, increased international segregation—even between western countries—and a reduced global learning rate due to a lesser degree of physical interaction... I believe the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
majority of them are not doing it effectively," says V. Kasturi "Kash" Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School. "If you look at the Fortune 100 companies, you'll find at least half of them could do... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
Walt Disney’s time in Paris during the waning days of World War I helped shape him into a visionary entrepreneur who would ultimately build a beloved international brand. Dwight Eisenhower and Robert McNamara discovered the importance of... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
(Editor's Note: In a recent issue, Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter tackled the controversial issue of "commodification of the body." Harvard Business School professor Michel Anteby contributed the... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
silos are one reason for the lack of integration. More important, however, is the lack of a common framework and even language that would allow engineers, lawyers, and business executives to manage IP assets better. This article provides... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-011.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBuro Happold (Abridged) Robert G. Eccles and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 412-123 In 1996, Ted Happold, the founder of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
One of the greatest challenges for the values-centered culture is to produce top performance and succeed in the market against "win at any cost" competitors. Values are only one part of an organization's culture; the other half is its operating norms—the way... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
guiding the conduct of the business enterprise. . . . The world cries out for repair. While some people in the world are well off, many more live in misery. Ironically, the magnitude of the problem defies easy recognition. With the global... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh