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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
enjoy the hands-on nature of running my own small company, having the opportunity to focus on different businesses at different stages of development. In small markets, the feedback on your actions can be swift and gratifying. But it can... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
is escalating, people are getting aggressive, and no one is willing to back down. And, to top it off, you have little power or other resources to work with. This book shows how to defuse even the most potentially explosive situations and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008
Cases & Course MaterialsBMW's Project Switch (A): Importers vs. National Sales Companies Harvard Business School Case 509-023 BMW is faced with potential channel conflicts across several EU country markets. The case highlights BMW's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
the team’s poor play, was that McCarthy had not followed the rest of the league in using modern, imaginative offensive plays to sow confusion and gain advantages over opposing defenses. Highly effective managers also have the ability to adjust strategy based on team... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2
well-defined financial criteria. We suggest that this dynamic may have important implications for our understanding of the role of management in the modern, knowledge-based firm, and for the potential revival of manufacturing in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
training to scale his impact on care delivery at the health systems level. Dion Boyd (MBA 2026)Prior to HBS, Dion created Up Your Equity, a company that aims to combat the racial wealth gap with financial education. There he taught... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
effects of their submissions on the other individuals in the workplace. We also find that offering employees project funding to implement their own proposals potentially backfires, undermining participation. And solicitations emphasizing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
discuss the findings. Sean Silverthorne: Traditionally we've thought of innovation as something done internally by a business, often through a centralized R&D team. But your study discusses a trend where companies innovate in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
fashion e-commerce company, Peach. It’s also a challenge to an industry where a company’s potential is often predicted based on its similarity to other successful ventures, most often led by CEOs who look a whole lot like Mark Zuckerberg.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
When you think about which countries have produced the greatest management innovations, the United States and Japan are likely to top your list. But it was Germany in the late 1800s and early 1900s that was a cauldron of innovative and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
mission to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities. In 2020, their efforts reached 37 million people. That senior leaders had so profoundly failed this survivor—and put... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
religious cultures - with the expectation that they will share their perspectives in the classroom." As students mull over cases in class and present their ideas for potential solutions, says Reiling, they and the faculty often find that... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
case:http://hbr.org/search/812128-PDF-ENG Chapman International Inc. David F. HawkinsHarvard Business School Case 112-098 Management must make some accounting policy decisions to reach first-quarter earnings consensus. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
who was fascinated by her early experience with languages. “I would love to study you, because the way that your neural networks have been formed must be so different—because you were really substantively multilingual before you were... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
true in the work I do in Sri Lanka, is that the technical solution is easy,” he reflects. “It’s navigating the human side that’s much harder—that’s what I found in my LEAD cases at HBS. There’s never an A, B, C sequence that you can put into a flow chart. You just have... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
innovation and business development won't be far behind. Rosabeth M. Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor Of Business Administration Protecting the environment can be fun. It's also good business. Mother Nature—speaking through your... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Some negotiations are easy; others are more difficult. And some situations seem completely hopeless. Conflict is escalating, people are getting aggressive, and no one is willing to back down. This book shows how to defuse even the most View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
of the influenza virus A. Tamiflu was designed to be effective against any strain of Type A or B influenza. Thus, there was the potential to establish a preparedness plan based on creating a stockpile of the drug in conjunction with an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
also find evidence that the behavior of lower-level managers is consistent with the incentives created by the weighting of nonfinancial performance measures in promotion decisions. Managers in locations where there is a higher ex ante probability of promotion and a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace