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19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

times. She has leaned on the insights she has gained from her research and teaching to advise organizational leaders, board directors, investors, and business school faculty on effective strategies for cultivating DEI in organizations.... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

The Producers

there and never knowing what’s around the corner.” Speaking of gold, the financial reward an independent producer can expect to see from a project varies greatly, with up-front freelance fees ranging from $150,000 to as high as $5 million... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

remember the subsequent bull market and how badly it ended in the fall of 2008 after the whole financial system almost collapsed. I don’t have a crystal ball, but as I’ve said, current valuations of the big blue chip companies in the Dow... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

regional clusters. Naomi Lamoreaux and others have also underscored the financial and regulatory conditions in which innovation has flourished. Large datasets and econometric methods have enabled researchers to come up with powerful... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

the 1929 stock market crash revealed disastrous investments made by his superiors, Weinberg, who became head of the firm in 1930, worked tirelessly throughout the Great Depression and World War II to keep the firm alive. At the same time, in service to his country,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

Steven B. Belkin (MBA '71) began his highly successful travel and financial services marketing enterprise, Trans National Group, a few years out of HBS. G. Peter Bidstrup (MBA '59) started to put together the Doubletree Hotel chain in the... View Details

25 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

Economics & Management Strategy Measuring Consumer Preferences for Video Content Provision via Cord-Cutting Behavior By: Prince, Jeffrey, and Shane Greenstein Abstract—The television industry is undergoing a generational shift in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

Management Strategy Ex-Ante Agreements in Standard Setting and Patent Pool Formation By: Llanes, Gastón, and Joaquín Poblete Abstract—We present a model of standard setting and patent-pool formation. We study the effects of alternative... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

Schulmeyer sought the natural leaders to be Siemens-Nixdorf's change agents, and gave them responsibilities that cut across existing hierarchical titles. At Invensys, Rick Haythornthwaite put 90 people on strategy teams to find a new... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

18 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

with markets and investment. In addition, he worked half-time with a Boston-based management consulting firm on the strategy problems of several important corporate clients. He soon decided to focus his full attention on HBS. As the first... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

potential risks at most other organizations? A: One of the next steps with our research is to look at leader strategies that reduce the chances of becoming seen as hypocritical. We theorize—but still need to test the ideas—that employees... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

well-defined financial criteria. We suggest that this dynamic may have important implications for our understanding of the role of management in the modern, knowledge-based firm, and for the potential revival of manufacturing in the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

high tax costs when repatriating earnings. Estimates indicate that a one standard deviation increase in the tax burden from repatriating foreign income is associated with a 7.9% increase in the ratio of cash to net assets. In addition, certain firms, specifically those... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2017
News

Yoga Inc.

phenomenon it pretty much created. “From the foundation of yoga wear, we started a category that before us did not exist,” says Vivien Yeung (MBA 2001), Lululemon’s chief strategy officer. Understanding the public consumption ritual... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Halber

01 Jun 2013
News

Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

his staff's recommendations to approve new schools, let current charters expand, or close those plagued by low performance or financial mismanagement. "We give them many years of warnings, and we publish a report every year that shows... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

decline in sales and profits in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial market crisis and economic recession and is now overburdened with debt. To regain its competitiveness, the company has to significantly reduce its debt by billions of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

that helps him or her to fully understand the consequences of shoplifting and to make better choices in the future. The expense (about $320) is borne by the offender, although financial assistance is available to those who qualify. “Cost... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

2011
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Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details

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14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

professionals in many fields, the authors have concluded that selfless dedication to work is often unnecessary and harmful. It has dysfunctional consequences not only for individuals but also for their organizations. The authors discuss three typical View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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7 Trends to Watch in 2022

2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

The Producers

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

Inside the Partnership

An Entrepreneurial Journey

First Look at New Research, April 25

First Look: October 1

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

First Look: September 2

First Look: November 21, 2006

Yoga Inc.

Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

First Look: Feb. 28

The Year in Ideas 2015

Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

June 14, 2016