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- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
elective course, Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact, which she teaches to second-year MBA students at HBS and select students from Harvard Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government. The User's... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
specializing in building and managing prisons. Students must assess the firm's strategy and risks, evaluate key financial reports, derive forecasts of future performance, and use these forecasts to value the firm. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
commemorate the HBS milestone. Beyond moving the overarching topic of women and leadership, speakers examined the role academic research plays and how that research can be used for what Ely termed "a lever for change." “Better lives come through a redesign of... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
can earn in an hour of work. Therefore, if height is taxed, you are taxing ability directly, so you can cut the economic pie more equally without it shrinking." Both topping six feet, Weinzierl and Mankiw would be subject to their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
look to for support, and you need that support team around you. But, I've found, Brian, that almost every great leader goes through these crucible moments, like Nelson Mandela did, even Jim Burke and Tylenol, the second time around, was... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
for anything where the prior art is known," explains Prithwiraj Choudhury, an assistant professor in the Technology, Operations, and Management unit at Harvard Business School. "But when a Western firm goes to a Western... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22
Publication:Academy of Management Annals Abstract The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields-including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research-and has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
announcement.” While lauding Minister Johnson for arriving at “a truly Solomonic solution,” Guy Higgins suggested that this was a good example of managers failing “to think through the ‘What can go wrong with this?’ question.”... View Details
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
most rigorous extant methodologies for detecting "tunneling," or efforts by firms' controlling owner managers to take money for themselves at the expense of minority shareholders. We find that, in contrast to prior views, Indian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
business unit structures in management thinking, except that healthcare is still stuck in the functional model. These forms of competition and organization have also been institutionalized in medical education and in physician... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
based in Asia, Europe, and North America. Assisted by rich governments and by loans from development banks, the WDC would bring to impoverished areas technology, credit, access to world markets, and management know-how. Its projects would... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
at its discretion. More generally, Google sets reserve prices for a variety of aspects of its marketplace-including the minimum price for an ad to appear at all, the minimum price for a position in the valuable space at the top of search... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
enterprises seem incapable of transformative innovation, it is due to how we design and manage them, rather than anything inherent in their scale. In fact, Creative Construction argues, if used properly, scale can be an asset, rather than... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
the required Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (commonly known as LEAD), which focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of the enterprise. The Elements Of The Case Click on image to enlarge... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
with our own money, we'll maybe add a store or two." Sam Walton died in 1992, a year in which Wal-Mart ran more than 1,900 stores with over 430,000 employees. Sales topped $55 billion, making it the world's largest retailer, and... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
The Dow Acquisition of Rohm and Haas (D) Jay W. Lorsch and Melissa BartonHarvard Business School Supplement 411-004 Dow's board and management team worked on arranging appropriate financing to complete the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
video clips our team has created start to be used in classrooms, at HBS and in a few other institutions. These clips are really cool. I taught a class on corporate social responsibility in an executive education course simply using four... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
performance on immaterial issues perform the best. These results speak to the efficiency of firms' sustainability investments, and also have implications for asset managers who have committed to the integration of sustainability factors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
tolerated with others. The sales manager who brings in big bucks but acts in a hostile, domineering way with his team may be seen as the definition of success, yet letting “a brilliant jerk be a jerk” could... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman