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Valerie Porciello | About

Valerie Porciello Bio Valerie Porciello is Executive Director of the Division of Research and Faculty Development at Harvard Business School and a member of the School's... View Details
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

groups are context dependent and distorted in the direction of representative types. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51546 forthcoming American Indian Business High Stakes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

 

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

U.S. business cycles lead over medium-term fluctuations in Mexico; and (3) why Mexican consumption is not less volatile than output. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-029.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Research - Race, Gender & Equity

treat White men as the dominant group and Black people as the archetypal subordinate group... September–October 2024 Harvard Business Review Should a Family Business Accept a... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Singing to the Corn

layoffs. Even so, I remember someone pointing at me in a bar, and we hustled out of there. It certainly left a taste in my mouth of the power of strategy and thought, but I felt really bad about it.” The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture
  • 2007
  • Report

Competitiveness at the Crossroads: Choosing the Future Direction of the Russian Economy

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
The report synthesizes, interprets, and draws implications about Russia's economic progress, applying the Porter competitiveness framework. It is part of a Strategic Audit of the Russian Federation, a broader set of research activities coordinated by CSR to provide a... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Russia
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  • 29 Jan 2021
  • Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)

in and impact your time in the program. Practice the virtue of contentment and remember the blessings of your own life you are at Harvard Business School! There is so much to... View Details
  • 31 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

Every year depression affects one in every five employees and costs American businesses $210 billion in medical bills and lost productivity. In fact, for every worker with a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
  • October 1988
  • Case

Agrico, Inc.: A Software Dilemma

By: F. Warren McFarlan
An information systems vice president has one hour to make an ethical decision: should a software program, left inadvertently on the company's computer, be copied and stored? Copying the program would protect clients' assets, but it seems to violate the vendor... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Contracts; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Information Technology Industry
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  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

firms. These findings remain robust when we address potential reverse causality by exploring the regional pattern and process of agglomeration. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

Tharian, for example, said "common sense is quite often related to wisdom (from accumulated experience vs. the knowledge that the younger generation acquires so rapidly through social networks)." Noting that Webster's Dictionary... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 05 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 5, 2006

  Working PapersNone this week   Cases & Course MaterialsCreating Meaning for the Customer: The Case of GMACI Harvard Business School Case 106-073 Excellence in exploiting customer information and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 1998
  • News

High Honors

their boards of directors. It's a tribute to his years of experience as a corporate and community leader and to his stature as one of Canada's most distinguished executives. Barford graduated from the... View Details
  • September 2005
  • Article

Decolonising Barclays Bank DCO? Corporate Africanisation Programmes in Nigeria, 1945-1969

The reaction of British business to the decolonisation of the Empire has been the focus of much recent research, but few studies have shed light on the continued presence of commercial activities after independence. Barclays Bank DCO in Nigeria began indigenising its... View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Foreign Direct Investment; Banks and Banking; Macroeconomics; Banking Industry; Great Britain; Nigeria
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  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

  PublicationsLying to Level the Playing Field: Why People May Dishonestly Help or Hurt Others to Create Equity Authors:F. Gino and L. Pierce Publication:Journal of Business Ethics (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

It's academic. (Not!)

If your idea of a Ph.D. in business conjures up visions of spectacled scholars toiling in solitude in the library's darkest, dustiest corners, think again. At HBS, students in the School's Doctoral Programs are doing much more than... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives, and the firms they controlled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 1995 (Revised April 1995)
  • Case

UAL Corporation

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jeremy Cott
In the largest attempted employee-buyout in history, a large U.S. commercial airline seeks substantial wage concessions from its employees in return for 53% stake in the airline's commmon stock and guaranteed seats on the board of directors. Management must convince... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Corporate Governance; Labor; Wages; Management Teams; Employee Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Strategy; Value; United States
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  • 07 Jul 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?

as the result of exporting jobs to China, India, and other developing economies. Still others argued that the issue relates to end objectives, not the means, of achieving greater productivity. Jim Noon... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett