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- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Entrepreneurial cognition and motivation frequently lay in individual, and very local, experiences, but many of the key pioneers were also highly globalized in their world views, with strong perception of how small, local efforts related... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
happens then? Will it, like the German intelligence in World War II when it was fed massive amounts of both incorrect and correct information by the British, simply grind to a halt? Or will this just create... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial Administration after World War II. This episode illustrates the increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
economic theory's ideal of perfect integration—an intermediate outcome that I refer to as quasiglobalization. Looking forward, levels of cross-border integration may increase, stagnate, or even suffer a sharp reversal if the experience between and during the two View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?
With China hosting the Summer Olympic Games starting this week, some reformers see an opportunity to use the world stage as a platform to pressure the country's leadership into expanding social freedoms. Judging by recent news, they don't... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
could finally afford to buy their domiciles. The definition of home shifted. A home became an anchor, a stake in the community. Veterans from World War II seized upon the FHA and VA mortgages to sink roots... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
86, no. 2 (February 2008) Abstract In May 2004, with the war for talent in high gear, Groysberg and colleagues from Harvard Business School wrote in these pages about the risks of hiring star performers away from competitors. After... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
lost. Q: When and why did most organizational scholars essentially stop attaching importance to any "meaning-making" capacity of leadership? A: The shift away from considering the meaning-making capacity of leadership began shortly after View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
nations, says Greyser. In 1964, Japan made a similar overture with the Tokyo Games to point to its recovery from defeat in World War II. China used the Beijing Games in 2008 to showcase itself as an economic... View Details
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
covers 8 countries and all of the continents, and continually challenges students to expand their understanding of the world and their place, as future leaders, in it. Based on my own experience, the course has been designed to explore... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
the Panic of 1907, and advanced by professional economists, like Irving Fisher and Warren Persons, after World War I. By the late-1920s, about a dozen forecasters competed to sell businesspeople their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
instantaneously," the Internet has created a world in which competitive advantage can appear and disappear overnight. Yoffie and Cusumano use the term "judo strategy" to encompass the combination of capabilities that competing on Internet... View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
as the state grew in the middle of the 20th century through the Great Depression and World War Two, and the advance of entitlements, we needed to fund those things and the fiscal capacity of the state grew.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
increasing profitability by immersing themselves in the lives of their customers. This book shows how resilient organizations cut through internal barriers that impede action, build bridges between warring divisions, and transform former... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
of its post-civil war reconstruction. When Liberia emerged from a decade-and-a-half of war, fiscal obligations were several times higher than income. Its new leaders were able to restructure the country's commercial debt (to three cents... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
few months will be working on the Internet sector in Brazil. "Just because the world is becoming more globalized doesn't mean that everything is going to look like Silicon Valley. "I also have a background in venture capital and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
2015 Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
businesspeople were forcefully reminded, yet again, of the ups and downs of the economy. By World War I, there were only about ten forecasting agencies operating in the United States. Professional... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
actually been marked by steady decreases in concentration since World War II. Executives, they write, "need to break free of the biases that lead them to pursue larger and larger cross-border deals.... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar