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- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
optimal action paves the way for incidental learning, while being dogmatic creates a barrier. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54567 Harvard Business School Case 717-035 Turkey and Russia: Dangerous... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
implications for anyone looking to impress others, for those who are tasked with forecasting consumer behavior, or for salespeople who consult with customers on prospective purchases. In short, it’s dangerous to predict what others will... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
all loans at some of the larger online small business lenders, in part because finding creditworthy borrowers can be tough. The subprime crisis illuminated the dangers of letting loan brokers go unchecked. As with mortgage brokers in many... View Details
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
other hand, Intuit said that 1,000 of its 1,800 layoffs were for performance reasons. This is a hard tag to put on someone who needs a new job who may have to explain whether they were cut for performance. It’s also a dangerous conflation... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
Pradip Shroff added: "The simple fact is that leadership is an art and science of blending various styles based on the situation." Yan Song summed up this point by commenting that, "Stereotyping leadership might be the greater View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
regarded as China's most independent newsmagazine, gathered his core team for an urgent meeting. His pioneering editor Hu Shuli, described for her fiercely independent journalism as "the most dangerous woman in China" had quit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
urgent meeting. His pioneering editor Hu Shuli, described for her fiercely independent journalism as "the most dangerous woman in China" had quit with two-thirds of Caijing's staff, allegedly over a conflict on editorial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
Lincoln Financial Meets the Financial Crisis Robert C. Pozen and Peter SpringHarvard Business School Case 310-137 In March of 2009, Lincoln Financial Group's CEO Dennis Glass was facing a difficult decision as to how he would replenish his company's capital, which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
dangerous times, and a stay in the Tower of London, if not execution, were possible outcomes of defying Henry's request. In the play, More shows a commendable breadth of understanding and enormous flexibility as he uses all of the powers... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
mutually assured destruction. What America requires is a new security concept that the authors call "strategic independence" to enable keeping the peace in dangerous times and foster new generations of leaders capable of acting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
that empower international organizations. That community has, moreover, always been cautious about the dangers of capital liberalization for countries that are not prepared in terms of their macroeconomic policy making or the domestic... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
cause marketing program focused on breast cancer to directly compete with Yoplait. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412047-PDF-ENG Fighting a Dangerous Financial Fire: The Federal Response to the Crisis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
or deeply satisfying one. One test of the seriousness of an illness is the severity of the treatment it requires. For Tony, the bribe, with all its dangerous risks, is strong, self-prescribed medication. The flow of success had masked and... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
pulled from the Creative Suite 3 marketing materials and from the launch entirely because it was in danger of missing a deadline. Murray wonders if and how to respond to the email that was addressed to her Device Central colleague, group... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
agencies embraced the new attitudes toward the private sector. They saw little choice but to turn to foreign investment. The result was that the nationalizations of foreign investors that had characterized the 1960s and 1970s came to an end. After all, it seemed View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
faster than product consumption. Consumers are looking not just for experiences but also for experiences that are meaningful, authentic, once-in-a-lifetime. HBSWK: Which is the danger of it—that it risks becoming this new commodity.... View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
dangerously close to nuclear weapons capability with the sanctions regime in decline? Or will it devolve to a slippery slope that would end up requiring a painful choice for key players between either acquiescing to a nuclear-capable Iran... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
as dangerous as Power and others speculate. Based on two detailed case studies and 53 additional interviews with risk-management staff at five other major banks over 2001-2010, this paper shows that relentless risk measurement is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
banking under the Glass-Steagall Act. As Moss is quick to point out, there was an implicit strategy: "We insured and regulated the most systemically dangerous part of the system, the commercial banks, and we exercised a much lighter touch... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517060-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-037 JCPenney: Back in Business In 2016, JCPenney was in the midst of a multi-year turnaround after coming dangerously close to bankruptcy. Under CEO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne