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13 Jun 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

very powerful people, including Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, and Saddam Hussein. Kroll's work even inspired the 2000 movie Proof of Life. Nearly a decade after the movie debuted, Kroll was still... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services

05 Jul 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?

Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

locally grown coca fibers for the manufacture of head rests and seats. With the help of Brazilian NGOs and the U.S. government's Inter-American Foundation, he found a community organization called POEMA in... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

the cost of investment in developing countries by at least 20 percent. And yet, companies are mostly silent on the subject. "The thing that struck me is how little information there is on corruption because... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

obvious sector for such an ecosystem, it is not the only area in which an inclusive growth strategy can work, Kaplan says. Palladium helped set up a service supply network for retail and hospitality companies in El Salvador. That country... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

employees on company time, with company material and/or tools. The origin of the term is unclear but probably refers to the fact that these artifacts are brought home. In the French aeronautics plant I... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

constitute the apex of competition by individuals and countries in hundreds of events (302 in London, to be exact), involving sports that may be very popular in one part View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

endeavors are bigger than the most ambitious mixed-use real estate projects, they are funded by promoters with deep and patient pockets and a long view of value creation, and with ambition to help an entire View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

healthcare industry. Wadhwani earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Pennsylvania, where his research focused on the institutional and regulatory origins of popular... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

making money and investing, but it's also about entrepreneurship. And entrepreneurship in this country right now is, I think, our great hope and has been the great hope of the last two decades. Having half... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

research had not, it's not our idea, it is Emerson's original idea. Q: I thought that the methodology that you used was interesting. We wondered why you chose a job interview negotiation to test the hypotheses. A: We have found in lots... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

tailoring in implementation is likely to be very different across situations. Vincent Dessain: There are differences between Total and BP due to their origin and size, but they both face the challenge of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

20 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

usual methodology of studying organizations in a particular industry or geography, Zhang went wide and deep. He developed a longitudinal sample of 1,069 leading public firms in 35 View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

Making the best international trading decisions may be as easy as taking a stroll around the local neighborhood. A recent research paper states that it's possible to predict whether a US firm will trade with any given country by studying... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Peeling Back the Global Brand

all linked to this. In their survey in twelve countries of seventeen leading transnational brands in categories ranging from the quotidian (petrol and dairy) to the trendy (cell phones, athletic wear, autos,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

06 Oct 2003
What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

too long a period of time for the disruptive growth engine to function. Can the appropriate culture be created and rewarded and the process—or as Patel terms it, the "pathways" —be designed and managed successfully over... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

many "divisional applications" derived from this original 1990 application, in which aspects of the original application were put forward as inventions in their own... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

06 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

Editor's note: With the death of Nelson Mandela, the words of the Roman poet Horace (65 - 27 BC) seem particularly appropriate in celebrating his life and achievements in freeing South Africa from the... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

09 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 9

Bazerman Publication:Academy of Management Perspectives (in press) Abstract In this article, we define good scholarship, highlight our points of disagreement with Locke and Latham (2009), and call for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

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