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- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
you and your coauthors of "Making Sense of Officership: Developing a Professional Identity for 21st Century Officers," a chapter in The Future of the Army Profession, decide to study professional identity as a part of leadership development? Why is this a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
moral leadership, it needs to carefully examine and discuss issues that cross the line from legal to immoral. Microsoft needs to show its employees that it takes the issue of separation ( of families by ICE) seriously. How it does that... View Details
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
capital firm Accel Partners; Susan L. Decker (HBS MBA '86), president of Yahoo! Inc.; and Eric Kim (HBS MBA '81), senior vice president and general manager of Intel Corporation's Digital Home Group. The first computer, the ENIAC, cleared... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
poor by removing the high cost of everything they need. Chu discussed the benefits and complexities of microfinance with Harvard Business School alumni on June 4, in a session titled "Microfinance: Harnessing the Market for Social... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
Disney Company expects to lose up to $190 million on its summer fiasco The Lone Ranger, another star vehicle featuring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer. Welcome to the risky strategy of "blockbusters," practiced increasingly by... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Bank Boards: What Has Changed Since the Financial Crisis?
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
one of the three most important issues facing managers and directors in 2006. He commented that, "Activist shareholders, led by hedge funds which today have aggregate assets of more than one trillion... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate
international, and global markets are critical points to be considered by today's modern manager, Abdelal said. According to the Tedlow and Abdelal paper, "The real reason to read Levitt is not to find out what is true about global... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
has researched stock price manipulation in Japan and looked specifically at firms like Livedoor. He says the Livedoor episode may, in the end, do some good by paving the road for reform of Japan's "abysmal" corporate governance.... View Details
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
maintained his control in part by creating a banking system that functioned more as a kind of investment club, Maurer says. Local businessmen would agree to lend each other money to finance one another's companies, while also selling... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
fighting intolerance and religious extremism. All of which makes her seemingly an unusual interview subject for Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets series, sponsored by the HBS Business History Initiative, which has... View Details
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
that the prices are right, because they usually are," says Harvard Business School finance professor Lauren H. Cohen, who serves as an editor of Management Science. "From there, you can look for the small corners where they are... View Details
- 09 Feb 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance?
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
a vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemic is Moderna, a Cambridge company with an immigrant co-founder and an immigrant CEO. Another firm already conducting vaccine trials is Inovio Pharmaceuticals of Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, led by... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
group of managers heading every function but also spoke with a cross-section of employees (with translators) and even several customers and partners. Since one of the companies—an IT giant—has been partnering with a major government... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
quickly, until Theranos was challenged by a Wall Street Journal investigation. On the surface, Holmes’ story seemed to be the perfect narrative. The would-be Silicon Valley entrepreneur dropped out of Stanford at the age of 19 to found... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
conditions along supply chains? Michael Toffel: In the US, this has probably been the most pronounced in the meatpacking industry, where folks work pretty closely together and weren’t really cared for in a robust way. And companies have had to figure out on their own... View Details
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
underscore the importance of understanding where open source is most used and could be vulnerable to attack. The report, ‘Vulnerabilities in the Core,’ a Preliminary Report and Census II of Open Source Software, was prepared by the... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
cast of historians, management researchers, and others. As co-organizer of the event with HBS Professor Tarun Khanna and Harvard-Newcomen Fellow Sudev J. Sheth, I was thrilled as participants explored, tested, and celebrated... View Details