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30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

Most organizations already have at least some of these processes in place, but they rarely develop and manage them in a coherent, consistent way. Here are eight things that your company should be working on. Identify your company's... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

interests of the United States,” and “opposes undue burden on members of our community.” As of this writing, the signatories include some 50 Nobel Laureates and more than 14,800 faculty members at US colleges and universities. Harvard Business School View Details

Keywords: by Staff

09 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

Working PapersAn Optimal Lower Bound for Anonymous Scheduling Mechanisms Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Shahar Dobzinski, and Ron Lavi Abstract We consider the problem of designing truthful mechanisms to minimize... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

of companies operate, investors can give helpful insight around people and culture. You can ask how to work through team challenges, enhance your company culture, or even how to make remote teams work. If they’re not the experts in these... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

notion of strategy was put away,” another said. “In the most critical times, it was just next month.” Inflation was a particular problem. Argentina’s annual inflation rate reached 438 per cent in 1976, and 3058 per cent in 1989. “I started View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

of the business community, HBS assistant professor Abrami said in an interview. The Chinese built their economy on a system of dual-class citizenship, one that designated any individual living away from his or her place of permanent... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

impact stayed. Kash, John, and I worked very hard to capture our findings in a single document. Alan Weber, at the time the Editor of the Harvard Business Review, did a magnificent job of taking our manuscript and making it accessible to... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

regardless of the intrinsically better design and potential differential value of Linux. In other words, harnessing demand-side learning more efficiently is not sufficient for Linux to win the competitive battle against Windows. Having... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

Web

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work and only your own, original work, and you agree not to engage in any activity that would dishonestly improve your results, or improve or hurt the results of others. In addition, unless otherwise stated in the respective Program, you... View Details

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for shareholders and society alike. That View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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