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  • 19 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 19

table. Just as negotiation theory could be enriched by principles of maneuver warfare, military doctrine offers officers and soldiers a potentially useful foundation to better understand and manage the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

conflict—that could be revived with an influx of financial resources, and that would ensure fair distribution of the fruits of the resulting growth. Today the poorest regions... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

enough money to prosper, low-income families' access to health benefits, their civic participation, family stability, and mental wellbeing are all diminished by their low success rate in building assets. Peter Tufano, Sylvan C. Coleman Professor View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • December 2010 (Revised November 2013)
  • Case

Talent Recruitment at frog design Shanghai

By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson and Yi Kwan Chu
This case illustrates the complexity and importance of hiring decisions in the Chinese operation of a global design and innovation firm. View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Talent and Talent Management; Decision Making; Complexity; Innovation and Invention; Shanghai
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  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46882 Friends with Close Ties: Asset or Liability? Evidence from the Investment Decisions of Mutual Funds in China By: Gao, Xinzi, T.J. Wong, Lijun Xia, and Gwen Yu... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at Harvard Business School. Roughly 42 percent of Fortune 500 companies said they’d reached an... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

subsequently. Our results are consistent with theory on the active role firms can play in managing their reputational capital through anticipatory actions to avoid negative media coverage. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, February 28

success factors for managing business experiments at the “incubation moment,” which appear to improve the prospects of success. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52307... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2006 (Revised July 2021)
  • Case

Kerr-McGee

By: Robin Greenwood and André Perold
Activist investors Carl Icahn and Barry Rosenstein acquire a stake in Oklahoma-based company Kerr-McGee. They demand two board seats and ask the company to make several operational and financial changes, including the repurchase of equity and divestiture of their... View Details
Keywords: Investment Activism; Restructuring; Equity; Investment; Management; Governance Controls; Corporate Strategy; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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  • 21 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

or Europe. In fact, an herbal medicine patent was 85 percent more likely to be authored by someone with an Indian surname than was a similar control patent. "It's a great example of first-generation... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology
  • June 2014
  • Supplement

Chung and Dasgupta: Information for Jordan Ramirez

By: Ian Larkin and Karen Huang
The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance measurement, feedback, and promotion/compensation decisions. In the cases, a leading law firm must decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Performance Appraisal; Performance Measurement; Employee Feedback; Motivation; Promotions; Human Capital; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Legal Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • 20 Jul 2020
  • Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

propose a way to alter our health insurance benefits universe for insured employees and the self-insured by combining the best of Republican and Democratic ideas about health insurance. More choice, affordability, and personal View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • What Do You Think?

Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?

make them wiser. An observer of policy based on behavioral economics might well conclude that an assumption of irrationality may be valid, but irrational behavior is hard to predict. Why, for example, do... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 07 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53835 July–August 2018 Journal of Healthcare Management Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Model the Costs of Various... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

dramatically since several large public institutions (for instance, the California Public Employees Retirement System and the University of Texas Investment Management Company)... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 23 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Putting the Project Puzzle Together

Project initiatives have grown too fast for companies to manage them properly. They often spring from the bottom up, meaning each project comes forward with its own narrow set of priorities and objectives.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 1, 2016

which he credited with helping to create a performance-driven, transparency-focused culture, was an information technology dashboard system that provided managers and front-line workers with a wealth View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

they think it is good for the market for bidders to be able to see each other's bids, precisely because that may increase the total amount of bidding and raise auction prices. Q: What might managers take... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

substantial variation exists across organizations with regard to management, suggesting frictions in the broader diffusion of management knowledge. We argue that peer networks may allow for the diffusion... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 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 View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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