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- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
of investing at home than those where external managers are involved. At the same time, SWFs with external managers tend to invest in lower P/E industries, which see an increase in the P/E ratios in the year... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
systems with recursive influence between environments and interactions, studies of micro-processes in organizations often assume implicitly that interactions among organizational members are closed systems. We suggest that this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
coming of age of biotechnology. The disappearance of "blockbuster" drugs could create new management challenges for pharmaceutical companies. — Gary Pisano The prospect is exhilarating, but the road to this brave new biotech... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
consumers make complementary choices in purchase decisions (e.g., chips and salsa), product inter-operabilities (smartphones and networks), and dynamic decisions (current exercise and future healthcare consumption). Multiple consumers make complementary choices when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
create and manage culture.” We have a hard time disagreeing with this statement, except maybe quibbling with the “only” part.... We’d argue that culture is in the running for most important because—among other things—it stays behind long... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
hypothesis that if there were more women who were venture capitalists then there would be more points of intersection with women entrepreneurs. In our research using information from 1995 and 2000, we documented all the women in the venture capital industry who were on... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
siblings, get to work every day on time, work toward a degree at night (paying their own tuition), and manage to save enough to slowly build a house. While generally excited by democracy, Liberians are understandably impatient for roads... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
process, both in Yamhill and around the country, illuminate something for you? Sheryl: I think the most difficult part for us was that we hadn't realized how dysfunctional lives can be. People of all strata and all education levels, We... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
once in a while, or just swinging by the office once a week, that it just was not successful for them, and B, give them resources that allow them to do some kind of coaching and reflection. It's difficult to go from doing something that's... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
the General Management Program at Harvard Business School. In the discussion, conducted last August in Mumbai, Kapur reflects on some 50 years in the advertising industry, starting in the “Mad Men” era of the 1960s, experiencing the dawn... View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
across medicine. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52286 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long-Run Survival By: Gao, Cheng, Tiona Zuzul,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
faculty and staff. One employee who was seriously injured in a car accident was astonished to receive a visit from McArthur in the hospital even before his family could get there. “While part of this was about managing an institution, it... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
countries; seemingly successful governments that had managed to reform economies were defeated by newcomers that promised more emphasis on the welfare state. This clash was interesting to us. Many economists advocate including a tax... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
the ambient atmosphere. The density of those molecules is much lower, so it’s a much more difficult energy-mass problem. And energy-mass challenges turn into cost problems in the end. So it’s really about asking, Can we capture these... View Details
- September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World
By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock
In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details
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Wells, John R., Carole A. Winkler, and Benjamin Weinstock. "Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World." Harvard Business School Case 720-373, September 2019. (Revised September 2019.)
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
only give you one year.’ That was 10 years ago,” recalls Lee Shaw. The controversial media campaign—which included TV, print, billboard, and radio ads—saturated Montana from 2005 onward, with the effort spreading to six other states. However View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
businesses after World War II, and how his children and grandchildren have taken the business forward, professionalizing the management and engaging in extensive social investments. The Group became a symbol of ethical capitalism, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
business unit structures in management thinking, except that healthcare is still stuck in the functional model. These forms of competition and organization have also been institutionalized in medical education and in physician... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The High Price of Customer Satisfaction By: Keiningham, Timothy, Sunil Gupta, Lerzan Aksoy, and Alexander Buoye Abstract—Managers often assume that improving customer satisfaction and financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne