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- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
Four European entrepreneurs joined HBS Professors Howard Stevenson and Walter Kuemmerle to explore these questions in the Global Alumni Conference breakout session "Entrepreneurship in Europe." Stevenson and Kuemmerle set the... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
some eternal issues of patient care: not only good health, but also quality, choice and trust? To consider these questions, the IS2K conference assembled a panel of experts, with HBS Professor Lynda Applegate as moderator, to talk about... View Details
- September 1999
- Background Note
Learning from Projects: Note on Conducting a Postmortem Analysis
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Steven Sinofsky
Describes how firms can learn from projects through postmortem analysis. Focuses on the step-by-step process of preparing and running a postmortem meeting as it is done at Microsoft and other software developers. View Details
Keywords: Conferences; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Projects; Software; Information Technology Industry
Thomke, Stefan H., and Steven Sinofsky. "Learning from Projects: Note on Conducting a Postmortem Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 600-021, September 1999.
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
to sponsor a conference at Harvard that will bring together index fund managers, institutional investors, long-term shareholder activists, and company directors and heads to engage in charting the course for what it means to be an engaged... View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
interaction between analysts and managers on conference calls. The evidence suggests that private interaction with management is an important communication channel for analysts for reasons other than firm-specific forecasting news. ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
field as well as in it Attending conferences on subjects that are new and unfamiliar" Leaders who want to stimulate more innovation within their companies need to look beyond the organization's walls, too. Is the company in an environment... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
relatively high return (for the industry) to employees and investors. This “trifecta,” which occurs as a result of outstanding service design and delivery, can be found in only a few very special organizations such as Apollo Hospitals in India; Chateauform, a provider... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
"Work/Life Balance: Are We Comfortable with the Choices We Make?" moderated by HBS professor Robin Ely, discussed their work/life decisions and the repercussions of those decisions at the 12th Annual Dynamic Women in Business View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
press conference in Stockholm on August 10. The news came as a complete surprise.… Then came the shock, the fait accompli. Th[en] … we had to win over shareholders, the public, governments, and unions. By choosing to secretly... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
Cognitive trust is grounded in the belief that your co-workers and leaders are reliable and dependable. It’s a resume-like competency, and you can confer it right away; it is typically referred to as “swift trust.” But emotional trust is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
conference call with his private equity investors. In the last six years, Micromax had grown its annual product revenues from $54 million to over $1 billion. Unfortunately, it was difficult for the founding team to keep up with Micromax's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
are its major themes? Geoffrey Jones: I have long been interested in the causes of globalization and its impact on societies. Both questions are best answered by looking at lengthy periods of time, and this has been my focus. I have often published in the scholarly... View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
generation framework, on the other hand, makes explicit what it means for them to work together. For example, they stipulate that Marketing should be included on the weekly sales conference call. The students are then asked to think about... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
history that year was Dr. Andrea Lluch, from Argentina. This was the origins of a research program and conference series which led to this collaborative volume, and the Creating Emerging Markets oral history project, which began with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (forthcoming) Abstract We describe a method for identifying "typosquatting," the intentional registration of misspellings of popular web site addresses. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
and do. We have just created a not-for-profit organization called the TruePoint Center for High Commitment and High Performance. This will be a research and education institute intended to increase our understanding of these organizations and educating leaders through... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
leading journal in the field, the Business History Review, and regularly attend conferences of the flourishing business history societies in the United States and Europe. Yet as we reviewed the literature being covered by our... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- May 2011
- Article
Challenge the Boss or Stand Down
By: W. Earl Sasser
This HBR Case Study includes both the case and the commentary. For teaching purposes, this reprint is also available in two other versions: case study-only, reprint R1105X, and commentary-only, R1105Z. Tom Green, an aggressive young sales executive at self-service... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Personal Development and Career; Jobs and Positions; Conferences; Service Industry
Sasser, W. Earl. "Challenge the Boss or Stand Down." R1105M. Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011).
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
process of moving new therapies from discovery to patients in need. Although the annual conference (Partnering for Cures) to improve how government research was organized was a huge success, Anderson considered refocusing resources on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- May 2015
- Article
What Are We Meeting For? The Consequences of Private Meetings with Investors
By: David H. Solomon and Eugene F. Soltes
Regulation Fair Disclosure was passed in 2000 in response to the concern that certain investors were gaining selective access to privileged firm information. In spite of the passage of this regulation, some investors continue to meet privately with executives. Using a... View Details
Solomon, David H., and Eugene F. Soltes. "What Are We Meeting For? The Consequences of Private Meetings with Investors." Journal of Law & Economics 58, no. 2 (May 2015): 325–355.