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- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
"quarter") exercised no influence on his investment strategy. He believed that conservative funding was called for in an industry in the midst of technological transformation. Therefore, he always... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
students received the case on Thursdays and began writing on Saturdays. My first drafts always had 3,500 words, so I had to chop, chop, and chop some more. For us, 9 p.m. was... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean
business leaders face on a daily basis. That's why today's leaders cannot afford to stop learning. I am a swimmer, so I think about it this way: I can always improve my technique. I can do some of this View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
global community, one that represents and respects the best of our collective backgrounds and traditions and that is a living example of how people from all over the world can come together around a set of common values, and though not... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
by Garry Emmons It's December, and outside the weather is frightful in many of America's 32 National Football League cities as teams gear up for the playoff season. But no matter how adverse conditions may get both on and off the field,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., think tank dedicated to providing research and policy analysis for environmental decision makers. "And even if returns on environmental investments were always... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
effect; perhaps people were angry at seeing women in office and retaliated. But further research indicated that crimes against women probably weren't increasing. For one, murder rates of women did not increase. (Murder is one crime that... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Disruption doesn’t create growth; instead, growth creates disruption. Growth is always hard, and disruptive growth is exponentially harder. It requires companies to make tough decisions in the face of daunting uncertainties: Should we bet... View Details
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
(Editor's note: This first in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Small businesses are core to America's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
encompasses the birth of the consumer society, the shift away from an industrial economy, and the decline of the social contract between companies and workers. So the Times articles were chosen — from a huge array of possibilities — to fit into View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
losses in June. Will crypto overcome the challenges on the road to mainstream adoption? What’s standing in its way? HBS faculty members Charles C.Y. Wang, who has written about public firms’ investments in, and accounting for,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
Setting the Standard for Commercial Success As chairman of Esquel Group, Marjorie Yang (MBA 1976) oversees one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-end cotton shirts. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Hong Kong, Esquel employs... View Details
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
would predict. Behavioral science regards it as perfectly reasonable behavior, explained by what they call the "endowment effect." It is one of many behaviors that help explain why markets are not View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
of Weak Interests By Gunnar Trumbull Empirical studies have consistently shown a capacity to coordinate when the collective interest is both material and evident. One of the early studies to assess the impact of group size View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More is currently one of the more visible proponents of this perspective. Could the long tail really provide increased profits for Hollywood? And is it true... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
them succeed as individuals — but always with an eye toward the larger institutional mission. “Research and course development are the foundation on which this School is built,” he told a graduating AMP... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
study show that Pepsi does not always maximize its entertainment/purchase intent balance, he says. Pepsi MAX's Torpedo Cooler ad (also known as "Catch"), for example, featuring a beer can-shooting ice chest, scored low (13th percentile)... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
"Capital overhang is a big issue that keeps coming up over and over again," said Fergal J. Mullen, a general partner at Highland Capital Partners who focuses on software and services companies. Mullen said he looks for companies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
HBS, is a noted authority on leadership, strategy, organizations, and human resources. His new book is particularly relevant to leaders of nontraditional firms who may or may not be technology experts but who need to have the ability to... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
the largest number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 outside of China, but new cases have decreased sharply since then. As of May 25, only 16 new daily cases were reported, bringing the cumulative total number of cases to 11,206 and 267 deaths. This represents View Details