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- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
significant challenges. The case pays particular attention to the four men's evolving identities as musical artists and to the tradeoffs that have accompanied their fame and larger social commitments. The case takes up the evolution of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
2016 Gurgaon, India: Penguin Random House Win-Win Corporations: The Indian Way of Shaping Successful Strategies By: Shah, Shashank Abstract—Why did Ratan Tata decide to pay for all the victims of 26/11 whether injured in the Taj or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
closing the deal. Success in the first stage, for instance, depends on the salesperson acquiring precise and timely information about opportunities from contacts in the marketplace. Closing the deal requires the salesperson to mobilize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
allows bank depositors to remain "sleepy": they do not have to pay attention to transient fluctuations in the market value of bank assets. In contrast, shadow banks create money-like claims by giving their investors an early... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
projects, for example, don’t generate enough water bill revenue to pay for themselves. But, rather than go without water for lack of current funds or skills, municipalities like Algiers, Algeria, have contracted for water with GE on an... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
managing demand - using modern sensors and valves, remote measurement, big data optimization algorithms, mobile apps, and other innovations - is a more powerful way to benefit citizens and businesses than just pumping more stuff through... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
Nohria reflected on his time leading the School and how students and faculty mobilized to respond to the pandemic. After all that the world has faced in 2020, it’s easy to forget that you assumed the deanship in the aftermath of an... View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
suggests that "Globalization will have reached its peak when we have global citizens who can pay their taxes where they please and enjoy the benefits of the government that serves them best no matter their geographic location . . .... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
of the other members. It also flourishes in communities where resources are mobile. Q: Does this help explain the phenomenal increase in entrepreneurial activity we have witnessed over the past few years? A: Changes in the financial and labor markets have increased... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
companies and, well, straight men. In the offices of a Cambridge software firm, the Deckingers are discussing their vision for Jess, Meet Ken with a team of mobile app designers. Their target audience is single, heterosexual women, ages... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share information, but it fails to... View Details
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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
stewards of our labor, our lives, and one another. This article features the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative’s video playlist . Organizational self-awareness Maureen Scully on Mobilizing Privileged Allies to Address Inequalities... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
of risk, and the apparent difficulty of identifying minorities as high-potential each constitute major hurdles to the career mobility of minority managers," they write. "Overcoming them is possible, but it places the equivalent... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
explains how management challenges differ for proprietary and shared platform during subsequent life-cycle stages: network mobilization and platform maturity. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-105.pdf Film Rentals and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Harvard Business School Exercise 908-051 A two-party negotiation between an Agent representing a new author and an Editor at a large Publishing Firm. The exercise involves a one-issue, zero-sum negotiation concerning the advance on royalties that the publisher will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
efficiently, accelerating the business model, and building the leadership team.” Howard started at the mobile brokerage company Robinhood in 2019. Tapped to help it scale and manage its operations teams, she is responsible for everything... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
and increase earnings management and CEO compensation following these board appointments. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/malcofrazIII.pdf Paying to Be Nice: Consistency and Costly Prosocial Behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
delivery of capital. For example, all of the biggest players emerging in the alternative lending space offer online and mobile applications, many of which can be completed in under 30 minutes. These are not just inquiries; these are... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
its historic status as a vendor of the Macintosh personal computer (PC) line. Mac sales remained vital to Apple's future, but they now accounted for less than half of its total revenue. The company's line of iPod media players, its iTunes online content store and its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
toughest in the world, both because of its size and because of the highly aggressive behavior of competitors. An inward investor must have the strong capability to survive in such an environment. This capability must include high quality managers. As U.S. managers are... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace