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- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
companies can do things together without formal ownership or legal relationships. Emerging nations must create programs and incentives that encourage enterprises in free-trade zones to build linkages with... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Climate Change
On Sunday, 300,000 activists took to the streets of New York for the People's Climate March, the biggest climate protest in history, and the United Nations on Tuesday held the Climate Summit. In the spirit of Climate Week, we present insights from members of the... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
a vicious cycle of accelerating decline. Our results have important implications for understanding managerial incentives and the internal processes that lead to sustained advantage. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 2010
- Teaching Note
Global Talent Management at Novartis (TN)
By: Jordan I. Siegel
Teaching Note for 708486. View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
we call entrepreneurial beacons. We argue that the actions or outcomes of salient organizations attract and motivate entrepreneurs, thus increasing the rate of foundings. To test this logic, we examine the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
value chain and the motivation for the reuse of blocks of intellectual property in modern IC designs. It briefly examines ARM Limited as an example of an IP specialist supplier View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
and the long-awaited breakthrough in R&D productivity has yet to materialize. This disappointing performance raises a question: Can organizations motivated by the need to make profits View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
world-beating performances out of some good-but-not-great players and even to motivate others to take pay cuts in order to play for him, an anomaly? Can unusually gifted managers improve employees’... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Becoming an Ethical Negotiator
at the Georgetown Law Center in Washington, D.C., and associate editor of Negotiation Journal. Wheeler agreed to take some questions from HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: Some cynical people might say that "ethical... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
differences, clearly public entrepreneurs are ultimately responsible to and accountable to voters, citizens, people living in the community. And that’s different from being mainly responsible to private... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
financial measures makes little sense. All the financial incentives in the world won't transform CEOs into better decision makers. And bad decisions can bring companies down. Boards have an obligation to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
signals, we consider the influence of singular sector-level triggers, which we call entrepreneurial beacons. We argue that the actions or outcomes of salient organizations attract and motivate entrepreneurs,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
pinpoint a customer’s motive more precisely than for people who use the service casually or merely as a preference. That may help companies carefully tailor both marketing and service for their most valuable... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
computer manufacturers to steel mills and retailing, he has discovered consistent patterns in the way technological innovation affects both companies and industries. Health care, he declares, is no... View Details
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
internal coordination issues with the company's sales force, and the financial returns versus other uses of capital for the company. The case raises issues in aligning business strategy and sales management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
those created by well-designed policy (the PPF). Specifically, this note analyzes how differences in governance structure, termination capabilities, funding mechanisms, and asset management policies created distinctly different financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
Walt Disney’s time in Paris during the waning days of World War I helped shape him into a visionary entrepreneur who would ultimately build a beloved international brand. Dwight Eisenhower and Robert McNamara discovered the importance of... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
characterized by underdeveloped institutions and frequent environmental shifts. Yet they also contain many firms that have survived over generations. How are firms in weak institutional environments able to persist over time? View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
difference in the standalone utilities is sufficiently large, yields greater profits for both platforms. We further show that social welfare is greater under one-way compatibility than under incompatibility, and there exist no View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne