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- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
succeed in building high quality client relationships, delivering appropriately innovative thinking, and helping their firms grow and improve performance—all within China's unique political and cultural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6
study of the high-end fashion industry in India from its emergence in the mid-1980s to 2005. Although prior studies have attributed the specific identity, structure, and characteristic features of fashion industries in France, Italy, and the UK to the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
That They Are Now Losing Authors:Michael I. Norton and Samuel R. Sommers Publication:Perspectives on Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Although some have heralded recent political and cultural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
serving over 100 destinations; Nakheel, the property developer that built a trilogy of man-made islands; and DP World, a leader in international marine terminal operations. Despite being surrounded by political instability in the Middle... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 2017
- Supplement
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in Motion: Video Supplement
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Evan Siddall, newly appointed CEO of Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation, a governmental organization focused on the residential housing market, is charged with leading change at the organization. The case follows this process of change step by step and looks at the... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Organization Behavior; Government; Performance; Leadership; Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Nonprofit Organizations; Government Administration; Restructuring; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry; Canada
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in Motion: Video Supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 418-701, August 2017.
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
profound importance to contemporary readers, but also will be seminal secondary source for economic and political historians for generations to come. If you own a copy, keep it. A scholarly grandchild will thank you. Robert Kaplan My... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
So on the one hand, the political policy is to extend credit; on the other, the government-owned enterprises (Fannie and Freddie Mac) are trying to narrow the credit box because they so afraid of incurring a loss. Q: Tax reform is high on... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Coty. When Beetz was hired as chief executive, it was still a fragmented collection of recently acquired brands. The case describes how Beetz re-ignited the dormant celebrity fragrance business with the successful launch of a new Jennifer Lopez fragrance line.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
issues at all generally brush them off, believing that the problems can and will be solved by better governance and more political will, that states will take care of it. But the third troublesome phenomenon is that governments clearly... View Details
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
1938; Larson was member of the Harvard Business School faculty and authored the seminal history of Standard Oil, published in 1955. Yeager's work focuses on women and the political economy and she is the editor of a three-volume history,... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
scale up participation directed at an unresponsive state. To maintain ties with different caste groups, BAP takes an apolitical posture and does not actively build the capacity of communities to mobilize politically and make demands on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
horizon when assessing impact on host economies. Second, it is necessary to incorporate societal and cultural impacts alongside more traditional measures of economic impact. Third, there is weak historical evidence that multinationals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
me, in either a team or a one-on-one setting." Continues Klump, "I understood enough of Chinese culture to know that you rarely, if ever, confront someone in a group setting, as maintaining face is important. So I waited to have... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 12 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict
Even as polarized political discussion appears to have frozen the possibility of compromise, new research suggests that divided sides can come together on many issues to make decisions. “Our research finds that inaccurate beliefs really... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
company examples such as eBay, Lending Club, and Airbnb to offer practical advice for avoiding those hazards. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50940 April 2016 Harvard Business Review Culture Is Not the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
if not, what is the role of business history in your primary research interests? A: I do consider myself a business historian, though my research also ventures deeply into the realms of political and social history. A significant portion... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
that the role of steward is critical to the success of a healthy economic system." Nick C suggested that a response to the question has to take into account many things: "An appointment of such a role may well depend on more empirical evaluation of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21
Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors: Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna Abstract We investigate the idiosyncratic influence of standard setters in standard setting. In particular, we examine how FASB members' and SEC commissioners' length of tenure, past... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
with finding a political way to implement low corporate taxes. –Ane Damgaard Jensen It also has to be said that a lot of the appeal behind the flat tax is related to the reduction in the administrative burden, but also that flat taxes... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace