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12 Feb 2014
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Management Practices, Relational Contracts, and the Decline of General Motors

Keywords: by Susan Helper & Rebecca Henderson; Auto

10 Jan 2012
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are the best managed. Firms in developing countries, such as Brazil, China, and India, tend to be poorly managed. American retail firms and hospitals are also well managed by international standards, although View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jun 2020
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Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

EXPERIENCE United States Marine Corps HBS ACTIVITIES African American Student Union, Armed Forces Alumni Association Janina Motter Janina wanted an MBA because she is “passionate about empowering others – I’m looking for more... View Details

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Projects - Race, Gender & Equity

and retain one million Black Americans in careers over ten years, using a skills-first approach. Race, Gender & Equity Initiative faculty chair Robin J. Ely and faculty affiliate Boris Groysberg co-chair the OneTen partnership with... View Details

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

Learner types an answer in the discussion board in response to a peer's question Immerse yourself in real-world, case-based examples brought to life by industry-leading companies, including PepsiCo, Mahindra Finance, Morgan Stanley, and the View Details

01 Feb 2011
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Approach to Partner Choice in Mutualisms Authors:Marco Archetti, Francisco Ubeda, Drew Fudenberg, Jerry R. Green, Naomi E. Pierce, and Douglas W. Yu Publication:The American Naturalist 177, no. 1 (January 2011) Abstract One of the main... View Details

04 Oct 2013
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Imperfect Information, Patent Publication, and the Market for Ideas

Keywords: by Deepak Hegde & Hong Luo; Legal Services

April 2023 (Revised April 2025)
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Eike Batista: Making or Breaking Brazil

By: Geoffrey Jones, Pedro Magalhães, Daniel Tong and Marcel Anduiza

This case explores the meteoric rise and fall of Eike Batista, once Brazil’s richest person and the world’s seventh wealthiest in 2012. Batista began his career by investing in gold mining in the Amazon, using the network his father had built after years serving as... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; Brazil

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November 2010
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Which of These People Is Your Future CEO?

By: Boris Groysberg, Andrew Hill and Toby Johnson

Americans have long believed that U.S. military officers-trained for high-stakes positions, resilience, and mental agility-make excellent CEOs. That belief is sound, but the authors' analysis of the performance of 45 companies led by CEOs with military experience... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Training; Leadership Style; Managerial Roles; Situation or Environment; United States

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03 Jun 2014
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Specifically, we examine the impact of the annual July turnover of residents in American teaching hospitals on levels of resource utilization and quality relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. We find that, despite the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2013
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Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth By: Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan Abstract—At the time of the American Revolution, China was... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 Nov 2023
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Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

world of rational actors destroying their own firms’ balance sheets in late Suharto-era Indonesia and in contemporary China was fascinating and surprising. Once I understood the phenomenon, I saw it everywhere. You Might Also Like: Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

a US naval base in Honolulu’s Pearl Harbor. The devastating strike marked an immediate change in American public perception of the war—the US was under attack. During the seven weeks before December 7, 1941, both white and Black volunteer... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

04 Feb 2002
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How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

political system is very short sighted, Hayes said. American politicians, who only look two years down the road to the next election, try to "placate the electorate" with short-term benefits at the expense of long-term... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Sep 2020
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You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

administration in the HBS Strategy Unit. “It’s very taxing, to be honest.” Shifting to remote work at the start of the pandemic stripped away whatever was left of the elusive 9-to-5 business day and replaced it with videoconferencing and “asynchronous work.” With at... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

09 Jun 2022
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The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back

trying to achieve their goals and ultimately empower them to be their best selves, which will also strengthen the organization at the same time. MILLY WANG (MBA 2022) Milly was a member of the Asian American Business Association, the... View Details

18 Jun 2024
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Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

lower them offers a strategic advantage. Cavallo coauthored the paper, forthcoming in American Economic Review: Insights, with Francesco Lippi, professor of economics at Luiss Guido Carli in Rome and a research fellow at the Einaudi... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

09 Mar 2022
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War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

energy markets, but it is otherwise not an important market for most firms in the world, and certainly not for many American firms. It’s just because Russia is such a geopolitical player that it seems like Russia is a big part of the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy

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Immigrant Policymakers and Entrepreneurs

Since completing his prize-winning biography of Joseph Schumpeter in 2007 and his book, American Business since 1920 in 2009, Professor McCraw has been working on two new books about immigrants who came to the United States and became important policymakers... View Details

2021
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Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective

By: Jaqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache and Caroline M. Elkins

In this sweeping international perspective on reparations, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injustice—be it slavery or colonization, forced sterilization or widespread atrocities—has enduring consequences that generate ongoing harm, which... View Details

Keywords: Reparations; Slavery; Colonization; Structural Racism; State Injustice

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