New York Times - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

for executives there to absorb and react to it, reduced the company's ability to respond to bid requests on a timely basis. Alert to this change, a European rival added a 24-hour limit to its competing bids, forcing quick decisions from... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

05 Sep 2008
What Do You Think?

Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

were nevertheless raised for our further consideration. For example, Joe Violette left us with the assertion that "The Case Method ... develops a structured management approach ... not ... leaders." Others, such as Jacoline Loewen, asked about how compatible... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Education

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

identities can shape team members' side conversations in ways that create shared interests and information among those with similar identities, even before the team begins its formal meetings. Originality/value-By identifying new routes... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

central bank to abandon its zero interest rate policy, which had been in place for years, and raise rates to 0.5%. The Bank of Japan was eager to increase them to more "normal" levels to exert effective monetary policy. Yet the appropriate View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jun 2010
Working Paper Summaries

When Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs

Keywords: by Emilie Rose Feldman, Stuart C. Gilson & Belén Villalonga

Trust

Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries, the developed world has built customs and institutions such as enforceable contracts, an impartial legal... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

On a summer evening in 1991, after a small, invitation-only dinner in New York City, Ken Brody took aside the guest of honor for a private conversation. The longer the two men talked, the more Brody sensed... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

26 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

or Politics? Harvard Business School Case 708-053 On March 21, 2008, the U.S. government secured an agreement from two leading sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) to adopt a new set of investment principles to govern the Funds' activities.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 18

However, traditional options for improving the algorithm, such as hiring and training new employees, were time intensive and costly. Hastings decided to improve Netflix's software by crowdsourcing and began... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

systems that place these leaders in positions of power, Indispensable sheds new light on how we may be able to identify the best leaders and what lessons we can learn, from both the process and the result. Profiling a mix of historic and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jan 2016
Blog Post

A Summer Internship in the Music Industry

them find new artists and music that they might consider partnering with to release music. After establishing that I did in fact have good “taste,” I eventually asked the company if I could continue working with the team over the summer.... View Details

Web

Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

increasing danger of highlight glare at night. Land entered Harvard College in 1926. After the fall semester, he took a leave of absence to live in New York City. Over the course of the next three years, in... View Details

16 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision

with Milkman and Rogers, they discuss their working paper "I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders," which looks at our tendency as consumers to choose... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Retail; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Dec 2023
News

Venturing Forth

Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

21 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

Burke, and Cantillon through to that of Longfield, Cairnes, Bastable, Edgeworth, Geary, and Gorman, it is surprising that no systematic study of Irish political economy has been undertaken. In this book the contributors redress this glaring omission in the history of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2010
Casebook

Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

By: Laura Alfaro

All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations

Citation

Find at Harvard

Read Now

18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

include them in the contracts of new and prospective employees, and most new employees are not in a position to negotiate against the inclusion of the non-compete term. When a state government does nothing,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

Web

For Alumni - Health Care

yet makes a big difference in a student’s life. Subscribe to the quarterly newsletter Stay current on the health care news at HBS. Participate in a career panel Select alumni are invited to campus, typically in the fall, to share their... View Details

24 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

many firms located in New York and Los Angeles. That said, it is not mentioned in our chapter, but the biggest near-term certain change on the horizon is demographic—Baby Boomers will reach old age. That... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

February 2013 (Revised March 2013)
Case

Agero: Enhancing Capabilities for Customers

By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred

This case illustrates the importance of choosing a primary customer as the basis for organization design. Cross Country Group managers adjusted resource allocation, organization design and performance measures over time to transform Cross Country Group from an... View Details