World War - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

test for Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine. They had to navigate the fast-changing and fluid post-Cold War world economy by choosing either Europe and the European Union, or Eurasia and the Commonwealth of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

escalating, high-profile campaign against Third World debt, poverty, war and disease. “Any CEO who thinks his or her job is about maximizing shareholder value is living in the past.” Koehn, a Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

25 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

in moving out of lower-value into higher-value paths as technologies and markets changed. Before World War II those managers became proficient in monitoring the processes of production and marketing in each... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

book excerpt Management Is Not Leadership From Chapter 4, Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World By John Kotter Listen to how most people talk in everyday conversation, and you'll find that they often use the... View Details

Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

structure, social history, and educational system, companies developed under a system of family management that emphasized personal relationships more than formal structures, and relied more on broad-gauged financial controls than on coordination of technical or... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

21 May 2018
HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

like A. Lange & Söhne., founded in 1845 in the village of Glashütte, Germany. It began making precision pocket watches that eventually became world famous. After World War... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

clear that this is the case, and it is certainly not clear that every leader matters. Sometimes leaders have no choice. No president could have avoided declaring war on Japan after Pearl Harbor. But a president other than George W. Bush... View Details

05 Apr 2016
First Look

April 5, 2016

Teenagers for Business Careers after World War II By: Friedman, Walter A. Abstract—This article traces the growing popularity of Junior Achievement’s “Company Program” in the two decades after View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

06 Dec 2011
Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

For the past 18 months, European policymakers have been trying to deal with a crisis that represents the biggest challenge to the European integration project since its creation after World War II. The very... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

denial has become so high. We are living in a less forgiving world than we once did." We asked Tedlow to discuss how denial can cripple a company, and what can be done about it. Martha Lagace: What is the meaning of denial as you... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

03 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising

control," Deighton says. "In the 1950s, Dove's advertising approach was similar to a World War II military campaign with a heavy bombardment of 30- and 60-second messages with very strong, functional... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Publishing; Advertising

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

Ghemawat The organizational challenges involved in World War II were a vital stimulus to strategic thinking. The problem of allocating scarce resources across the entire economy in wartime led to many... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

05 Sep 2000
What Do You Think?

Whither the Information Economy?

happens then? Will it, like the German intelligence in World War II when it was fed massive amounts of both incorrect and correct information by the British, simply grind to a halt? Or will this just create... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

high-tech products could only be found in the United States. These successes were due in large part to government investment in basic science research and mass production. "During World War II, the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

26 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

responsible for the deployment of cell phones to two-thirds of Afghans. My research shows that throughout the developing world successful organizations like Roshan must inevitably take on more tasks than their counterpart firms in more... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

05 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

nations, says Greyser. In 1964, Japan made a similar overture with the Tokyo Games to point to its recovery from defeat in World War II. China used the Beijing Games in 2008 to showcase itself as an economic... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

24 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

magazine journalism early in the 1930s, Luce was able to cover some of the largest political and social events of the 20th century, including Charles Lindbergh's flight, World War II, the Cold War, and the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

businesses after World War II, and how his children and grandchildren have taken the business forward, professionalizing the management and engaging in extensive social investments. The Group became a symbol... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

Here then are our most-read stories in 2006. Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win? Using formal economic modelling, professors Pankaj Ghemawat and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell consider the competitive dynamics of the software wars between... View Details