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- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
securing endorsements from party officials and funds from big money donors. On the other side, Trump, already a media personality thanks to “The Apprentice,” has so far secured $4 billion worth of free media coverage and continues to dominate the news cycle with... View Details
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
readers Also popular in 2016: You, the readers! We at Working Knowledge are grateful for and proud of the thoughtful, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging comments you've contributed to our stories. Take this story from earlier in December, which discussed the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
bumpy and filled with controversy related to privacy. Over its first decade, Facebook has been no stranger to controversy, specifically about privacy controls, and it is to the company's credit that its growth has continued despite such... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
business. This pleases investors who have a short-term interest, at the expense of the long-term performance of the company. One way to address this issue would be to remove the irrationality of the markets (itself a controversial topic)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
on Thirteen Natural Experiments, Beer also outlined the controversies surrounding traditional pay versus pay-for-performance. Some scholars assert that pay becomes an entitlement, and an employee's pay is based on her level and not her... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
Greening Walmart: Progress and Controversy In 2005, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, launched a sustainability initiative aimed at reducing waste and making the company more environmentally and socially conscious. By 2015, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
a nation still shadowed by Mao Zedong’s controversial legacy institute market-based reforms that have made the country the world’s second-largest economic power. He has helped document that journey as the author of scores of cases,... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
http://hbr.org/search/113055-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-044 A Brief History of the U.S. Tobacco Industry Controversy By: Sucher, Sandra J., and Henry McGee This history of the U.S. tobacco View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
center of everything I pursue” Little did Nadella know that Microsoft would become caught up in the controversy concerning the treatment of immigrant families crossing the southern border of the United States Beginning in April, 2018,... View Details
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
environment, and mend its sometimes-cantankerous relationship with its 1 million-plus drivers, who are independent contractors. Besides, Kanter says, the company needs to rethink whether it makes sense to fight one controversial legal... View Details
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
social issues that do not relate directly to their companies. The case uses several examples to describe why business leaders are engaging in CEO activism and the potential benefits and drawbacks: (1) how Angie’s List’s CEO responded to the state of Indiana passing a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
potentially controversial business activities—outsourcing, for example—understate their earnings if it might boost a candidate's chances of election. The research by HBS professor Karthik Ramanna and a colleague from MIT, Professor Sugata... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
disposables and extended-wear lenses, and two involved new manufacturing processes. In a controversial but necessary move, he canceled dozens of small R&D initiatives for conventional lenses to free up cash for the breakthrough... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Has Entered the Mainstream By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Leaders in all sectors, from business to sports to education, are increasingly wading into controversial political and social issues. Based on interviews... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
Asian privatizations in the 1980s and 1990s-a process that showed that large positions can be exited over time without diluting the value of the stock. The bailout of the US auto industry has been a controversial subject from the outset.... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
Deflategate, the pro football controversy that spawned a media frenzy, Twitter war, even a presidential joke, has a new claim to fame as a Harvard Business School case study. At the heart of Deflategate is the question of whether the New... View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
touched controversial issues including gender equality and the conflicting emotions experienced both by women who work and those who stay home to raise families. Other popular stories, listed below, looked at such diverse topics as the... View Details