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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
returns are a linear combination of two accounting fundamentals: book to market and ROE. Empirical estimates based on this relation predict the cross section of out-of-sample returns in 26 of 29 international equity markets, with a highly significant average slope... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
where the future lay. From the first, with no particular basis for the assertion, Watson endlessly repeated to his employees that "IBM is not merely an organization of men; it is an institution that will go on forever." Despite some pretty View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
consistent predictors of voting behavior. For the former, we estimate sharp measures that control for common characteristics of the network, as well as heterogeneous impacts of a common network characteristic across votes. For common seat... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
world-class business. Following modern management practices, keeping sharp attention to cost control and capital operations, making aggressive entries into international markets, and maintaining a special corporate culture, Chairman Chen... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
in support functions and shared services.—Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton In a sharp departure from the past, Mobil adopted an objective and measure to increase dealers' profitability. Mobil set a stretch target to have its dealers... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
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Commencement 2015 Address | About
required to overcome the challenges that came along the way. It can be tempting to avoid Perseverance when you hit a road-block, to rationalize, to tell yourself you’re just going to find another way. But people who make a sharp turn... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Professor Allen Grossman and Senior Lecturer John Kim with HGSE professor Susan Moore Johnson Searching for System-Wide Solutions Baltimore City College's stellar education outcomes stand in sharp contrast to those of schools with similar... View Details
- Web
Art Nature Business
meaning was not in the pictures but in the subject. I began to feel that reality was something that existed only in our minds and feelings." He photographed a range of subjects in sharp detail, from rope strands and seaweed on the... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
Cellular Market (B) The case complements “Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel’s Cellular Market (A).” This (B) case describes the successful implementation of the reforms, which led to the entry of new competitors into the industry, a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
in law. Q: What were your main findings? What do the findings mean for individuals as well as companies and regions? A: We found a sharp drop in the ratio of mobility of Michigan inventors to those in other non-enforcing states after... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
effectively, and what that means for the bottom line. An authoritative introduction to a movement of vital importance, Healthy Buildings breaks down the science and makes a compelling business case for creating healthier offices, schools, and homes. As the COVID-19... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
translator simply puts his head in his hands and swears as he struggles to keep up with the convoluted account. Throughout the day we visit other Oaxacans in their homes and listen to their stories. Each demonstrates the sharp contrast... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
systematically examined. This contempt for business groups in mature market settings stands in sharp contrast to the intensive research that has been conducted on other major models of large modern enterprises in those economies, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
worth more. But often these contracts have sharp points at which the curve changes direction all at once, which can produce odd incentives. Even more strikingly, many of the compensation functions have jumps—sell just one more unit and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
global business executive's most common ailment-jet lag-she was determined to glean as much as possible from this high-powered gathering of management experts and peer leaders. At 4 p.m. sharp on Sunday, November 9, Bourneuf, Busch,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
extraction, and increased refinancing mortgagors’ consumption by an additional $76 billion. This de facto allocation of credit across mortgage market segments, combined with sharp bunching around GSE eligibility cutoffs, establishes an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
laws and shareholder rights — are not well established. There's much less competition, but if you are a sharp Harvard MBA who wants to launch a start-up, many of the details will be more difficult in Latin America." Alec Oxenford of... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
perspectives have virtues. But they should not be fixed positions, says Harvard Business School's Kanter. To get a complete picture, leaders need to zoom in and zoom out. A close-in perspective is often found in relationship-intensive settings. It brings details into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne