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- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
Harvard Business School professor David A. Garvin has studied the development of the case method of teaching at Harvard's law, business, and medical schools. Garvin wanted to see how the schools are similar and different in their use of... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
corporations have a designated CMO, or like a chief mindfulness officer, who would serve in a role similar to your own with the Bears? Wilkins: I think that would be incredible. And I think I'd sign up for that immediately. I think it is... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
New York City mayor Robert F. Wagner (MBA '36), elicited a torrent of dissenting letters in 1956 and was followed with a similar article from the Republican point of view. Fenn also increased the number of internationally focused articles... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Looking back, the board reflected on what they had done well, what they might have done differently, and whether another company might be able to implement a similar CEO transition process. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
examples of successful and failed leaders, with stories to illustrate their experiences and the author's advice to readers who may face similar crises. Purchase this book:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
default. Over the two years preceding default, we find that ratings grow increasingly pessimistic relative to a standard benchmark rating model prediction, while optimism remains for similar firms that do not default. Further, we find... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
capture strategies for modular systems. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2121600 Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes Authors:Kerr, William R., and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract We model spatial clusters of similar firms.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
managers and chief financial officers-are likely to have similar incentives and perhaps even greater opportunity to influence reported earnings in a manner that maximizes these managers' personal incomes. Moreover, previous research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
impact, or service. I believe this drive to find something that resonates in a similar way as my military service is leading me towards a career in global humanitarian/crisis response operations. As my second calling becomes clearer, I am... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
we propose that the greater self-insight they are attributed leads spontaneous thoughts to exert a greater impact on attitudes and behavior than similar deliberate thoughts. Compare a wife's thought of a former lover while perusing her... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Exchange Commission Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) website, we show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent searches by the same individual are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In fact,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
implication is that higher product prices result in more integration. Since trade policy affects prices, it influences organizational decisions: higher tariffs lead to more integration; moreover, ownership structures are more alike across countries with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
project goes poorly, and Hrad is left with the decision of how to rescue the relationship and avoid a similar problem in the future. The case allows the examination of how to manage an outsourcing project and permits a general discussion... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
core, while Suncheon, Korea, will use similar technology to link parts of a park and wetland. Further studies abound. In the long run, well-developed PRT could replace urban rail—making public transit faster, cheaper, more pleasant, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
the importance of the organization and had a similar vision for it," Ma says. "There's no way I could have done this job - or survived it - without her. I've never valued a partnership so much." Working together, the leaders helped... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
railroad culture and the people. It was similar to the Navy, where I spent 10 years working with the Seabees before coming to HBS. I made an overture to join them and was welcomed in, but I still had to sell Jess on Omaha." That took a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
of mine, Carl Kester. He takes some offense when I beat up on it. Sorry, Carl!” Sahlman’s perspective was influenced by his father, a successful manager who had dealt with similar kinds of resource allocation issues. Sahlman knew that in... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
targeted ads on the lockscreen and home screen, consumers clamored for an ad-free version. Amazon backtracked and extended its Special Offers program to the tablet, allowing consumers to opt out from the ads. Q: You're expecting that more companies will come up with... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
rated speakers more negatively, while in Study 3, listeners rated speakers who answered a similar question in a fluent manner more positively than speakers who answered the actual question, but disfluently (Study 3). These results add to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
phrase that has been defined as a "state of rational apprehension that does not result in appropriate action." In her brilliant study of the disastrous decision to launch the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, sociologist Diane Vaughan used a View Details