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- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
U.S. companies spent a staggering $285 billion on advertising in 2006, according to Advertising Age. That's a lot of dollars and expectations being handed to advertising managers to generate returns. But do marketing managers allocate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
management in the future. Rahul Kamath commented, " the Moneyball generation is already with us. Here in India, being good in analytics is a kind of pre-requirement for admissions to B-schools." This raises an interesting set of questions for other highly... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
management by building more value in their alumni networks than in their curricula and teaching. 2) Business school curricula, if not always their teaching, reflect the demands of the market. This is or is not appropriate, but not... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 23 Jan 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sports: Lessons for Managers
the most recognized sports brands in the world. Here's how he did it. In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet Sports investing is no longer just about buying teams and selling beer. Media,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
information flow through social media " Respondents described what increasingly will be required of leaders. Kapil Kumar Sopory said that "Leadership these days has become a complex art people with bias for listening, testing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
Broad definitions of the scope of information subject to disclosure; An obligation to publish proactively key documents and categories of information, even in the absence of a specific request; Clear,... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
LaMure (HBS MBA '02), is that targeted corporate executives who decide to ignore NGO protests do so at their own peril. Spar and LaMure recently detailed the rising power of NGOs and corporate responses in... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
resignation and explained why she was leaving the firm by detailing her unsustainable schedule as both a corporate lawyer and a mother to young children. Both memos were leaked on the Internet, prompting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
powerful as, and less responsible than, the countries in which they operated. Now the focus of interest seems to be different, if one believes the author of a book published several months ago, End of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
successful companies, the stage of the portfolio company (risky early stage versus less-risky later stage), and how much media attention the company had received at the time of investment. Controlling for... View Details
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
Professor Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback write in the new preface to their book Being the Boss: The Three Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, first published in 2011 and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
sought could include aid from one country to another, the sale of national assets, and the deferral of commitments to allow time for a work out. A sizeable minority, however, took the view that lenders, because they helped contribute to a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
began to appear in the 1990s, with French historian Laurence Fontaine's Histoire du colportage en Europe: XVe-XIXe siècle, a work translated into English and published by Duke University Press as History of... View Details
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
Philanthropy in US Communities, which was published in the March issue of Administrative Science Quarterly. The study adds to a growing line of academic research highlighting the importance of a firm's main location, even in an era of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
more important than the physical aspect." “Companies don't fully exploit the latest ideas that their product has created” In a paper published last year in the Academy of Management Review called "The Second Face of... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
With a yearly price tag of roughly $87 billion in lost productivity and adverse health consequences, the flu is nothing to sneeze at. It’s no surprise that workplace flu vaccination clinics have gained popularity as employers try to keep... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
and written about Apple for the last decade, generating several case studies. His latest case, Apple Computer 2004, co-written with research associate Debbie Freier, was recently published by Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- January 1989 (Revised February 1993)
- Supplement
Warner Cable (B)
Describes the view of corporate officers regarding the changes made by General Manager Bruce McKinnon. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
Sonnenfeld, Jeffrey A. "Warner Cable (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 489-093, January 1989. (Revised February 1993.)
- October 2002 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Vivendi (B): Revitalizing a French Conglomerate
By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and Rhonda Kaufman
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Montgomery, Cynthia A., and Rhonda Kaufman. "Vivendi (B): Revitalizing a French Conglomerate." Harvard Business School Case 703-418, October 2002. (Revised May 2003.)
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details