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Capitalism at Risk: How Companies Can Lead

Q. Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism? A. Business, not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion,... View Details

29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

policies, non-CEO executives’ behavior, and tail risk vary with CEO materialism. We document that the proportion of banks run by materialistic CEOs increased significantly from 1994 to 2004, that the strength of risk View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'

Coaches Really Matter? Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)? Boris Groysberg is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and the coauthor, with... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

means there was a complaint—about the food, about the service, some negative thing that had escalated to the point that a manager had been called on to straighten things out. Or at least, that’s what it used to mean. In fall 2016,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

who regulate access to, and interactions around, the platform. We present evidence on Facebook, TopCoder, Roppongi Hills, and Harvard Business School to document the "regulatory" role played by... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 1997 (Revised December 1999)
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OXO International

By: H. Kent Bowen, Marilyn Matis and Sylvie Ryckebusch

OXO, a kitchen tools and gadgets company, was started by a businessman who had 30 years of experience in the housewares industry. With his wife and son as founders, he creates a new niche in the gadgets industry for high-end gourmet stores. The company has headquarters... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Supply Chain Management; Production; Design; Ownership; Business Startups; Acquisition; Consumer Products Industry; Asia; New York (city, NY); Connecticut

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Studying the Historical Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile

A major priority of the business history group within the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School is the globalization of the research and teaching of business history. Within this broad context, the overall aim of this two-year project is to... View Details

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

Press declared that "Motown Goes Bust," and most commentary described the bankruptcy as yet another nail in the coffin of a city in decline. On the surface, the Motor City does look like Circuit City. Both entities have failed to compete, with View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

In our January 2 update, we featured the first part of a two-part interview with HBS professor Michael E. Porter, an internationally influential expert on strategy and competition. (Porter was recently appointed to a University Professorship, the highest professional... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

improve social and environmental conditions in the communities in which they do business. Whereas firms once might have been able to prosper by concerning themselves almost exclusively with financial results, most now find it at least... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Why Do Consumers Contribute to Connected Goods? A Dynamic Game of Competition and Cooperation in Social Networks

Social network platforms and media rely on the voluntary contributions of individual users to stay relevant. Consumers (users) contribute content such as photographs, videos, tweets etc.: these are available to any of their friends or peers, but not... View Details

March 2013 (Revised March 2015)
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iMatari

By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Matthew Preble

In late 2012, recent Harvard Business School graduate Hannah Lopez is given the opportunity to lead entry into a new market for Plámo, a company that created startup companies in Europe and emerging markets based upon existing successful business models. She had only... View Details

Keywords: Ethical Behavior; Ethical Judgment; Entrepreneurship; Imitation; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Europe; Middle East

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01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond

The flight had been arranged by secret military cable. An elaborate code of flares and signal fires was agreed upon, and the US Army Air Force’s 52d Fighter Group staged a midair diversion over the Adriatic Sea. But these attempts at... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

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Financial Incentives

My research examines how the performance effects of internal governance and the design of compensation vary by managerial position. For example, I document links between innovation and stock options for corporate R&D heads;... View Details

20 Feb 2015
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Yes, Your Uber Driver Is Judging You

03 Apr 2013
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A 4-step guide to landing a start-up job

21 Jul 2020
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New Models for a New World

03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/118090-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-486 AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century View Details