Filter Results:
(2,835)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,835)
- People (5)
- News (548)
- Research (1,637)
- Events (19)
- Multimedia (23)
- Faculty Publications (979)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,835)
- People (5)
- News (548)
- Research (1,637)
- Events (19)
- Multimedia (23)
- Faculty Publications (979)
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
highlights challenges associated with its use, and includes many examples of its application, primarily within the realm of regulating activities based on the risk of harm to human health and the environment. Appendices provide detailed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
tariff reduction, and an increase in the extent to which the sales of affiliates in reforming countries are directed towards other reforming countries. Analysis of firm-level responses to the creation of the ASEAN free trade agreement yields results that are consistent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
restructuring of the corporate tax, and with respect to foreign income, we should consider exemption with some safeguards against an overly aggressive use of tax havens. I fear that alternative paths will lead to much more harm than good and won't raise much revenue,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
school system—and to take action to improve it. There has been much work to do, as Harvard Business School's Stacey Childress details in two case studies. According to Childress, "The New Orleans public school district was already in... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
Dreyfus Commodities (LDC or Dreyfus) is the D of the ABCD grain-trading giants. The case describes how their business works and details the strategy by which management turned the company around in recent years. The case presents a number... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
interpersonal team diversity. Using detailed project—and individual-level data from an Indian software services firm, we find that the interaction of task change with intrapersonal diversity is related to improved project performance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
represent. Many financial practices out there excessively penalize foreign activities when these operations represent true opportunities. The best managers and firms combine a detailed understanding of the relevant finance with an... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
devices to medical devices that didn’t use radiation, they also found a 30 percent increase. “We expected to see something, but we had no idea of the magnitude,” says Galasso. Moreover, when they began examining detailed FDA filings of CT... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
millimeters, so I don’t know how they noticed this. However, this says a lot about who they are. They go into tiny details and make sure that everything is perfect.” Perfection and precision are at the heart of A. Lange & Söhne, which... View Details
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
experiments with college and graduate students, which are detailed in the paper, Gino and Margolis set out to induce individuals to focus on either promotion or prevention via a series of situational cues. They then studied whether the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
that people associate with global brands. Then we surveyed 1,800 people in twelve nations to measure the relative importance of those dimensions when consumers buy products. A detailed analysis revealed that consumers all over the world... View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
generate valuable insights. A few years ago, helping a client get ready for a tough deal, I suggested that the client create a detailed "brief" for each side and have the team's best people negotiate for the other side in a... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- Web
Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Collection, 1855-1895 Mss: 1417 1855-1895 N714 4 boxes, 50 photographs Collection Guide This collection of albumen prints captures scenes of Boston from the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Scholars will find detailed views of businesses,... View Details
- Web
Authentic Leader Development - Course Catalog
likely to: step up, lead effectively, and live a more integrated & meaningful life. Course Goals: Overarching : Increased CLARITY (self-awareness) & COMFORT (self-acceptance) Detailed : Increase your self-awareness by engaging the “big... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
one of the most amazing ecosystems on this planet. In the process,” he adds, “we more or less invented canopy tourism.” While putting together the tramway project, Skelly discovered an affinity for “working through details that involved... View Details
- 19 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The Road to Impact
to enter personal information up front, using a chat interface, and adding details about the wide range of services available—that led to a big uptick in the number of women vets engaging with US VETS. An example of an EDC innovation that... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Operational complexity and relative merits of in-house manufacturing versus a contractor model are discussed. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-050 'When I look back ' Reflections of Bernard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
Abstract—Multinationals exhibit distinct agglomeration patterns, which have transformed the global landscape of industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
excitement and uncertainty of entrepreneurial life. The case also details the innovative marketing the company created to expand its customer base, the means it devised to cultivate and maintain customer loyalty, and the strategies it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
she persuade angel investors that she had a business worth investing in? The case details her interactions with the angel investors and explores the role of angel investors in providing financial capital, business experience, and other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne