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  • 29 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

spent several years unlocking the power of school ties, studying how these social connections affect important decisions and, ultimately, help shape the economy. Their research shows that it's possible to make better stock picks simply by knowing whether two View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

    Thomas R. Eisenmann

    Thomas R. Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; Peter O. Crisp Faculty Chair, Harvard Innovation Labs; and Unit Head of the HBS Entrepreneurial... View Details

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    • March 2001 (Revised December 2007)
    • Case

    Katharine Graham

    By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Lisa M. Gunther and Dina R. Pradel
    Details the career of Katharine Graham of the Washington Post Co., a pioneer in her field and one of the first high-profile women to lead a major public company. Her story is a unique example of how power and expertise are built over time, and differs from those of... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Journalism and News Industry
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    • Web

    Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

    ; Journalism and News Industry ; Media and Broadcasting Industry ; Publishing Industry ; Asia Citation Educators Related Gulati, Ranjay, and... View Details
    • Web

    Finance - Faculty & Research

    that is published in top-tier scientific and practitioner journals, and that addresses issues of present and future importance to managers (including regulators and policy makers); b) to develop highly-relevant and intellectually rigorous... View Details
    • December 2016
    • Article

    The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales, Revisited

    By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf
    Even as we approach the twentieth anniversary of widespread file sharing, its impact on the sale of copyrighted material remains in dispute. We contributed to this debate with an early study, “The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis,” that was... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Copyright; Sales; Retail Industry; Retail Industry
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    • August 2010 (Revised September 2011)
    • Case

    Driving Sustainability at Bloomberg L.P.

    By: Christopher Marquis, Daniel Beunza, Fabrizio Ferraro and Bobbi Thomason
    Describes the addition of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance indicators to the Bloomberg terminal. The initiative grew out of Bloomberg's broader sustainability initiatives and is an example of how committed employees can create positive social... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Knowledge Dissemination; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Publishing Industry; New York (city, NY)
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    The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    aspects of the steel industry. In 1936, AISI distributed The Men Who Make Steel , an illustrated book intended to showcase management and labor harmoniously partnering in a mighty enterprise in which “each group seeks to get out of View Details
    • 22 Oct 2014
    • HBS Seminar

    Koleman Strumpf, University of Kansas School of Business

    • 25 Aug 2015
    • First Look

    First Look Tuesday

    Publications Forthcoming Management Science How Much Is a Win Worth? An Application to Intercollegiate Athletics By: Chung, Doug J. Abstract—Intercollegiate athletics in the United States have become a multibillion-dollar industry over... View Details
    • August 2018 (Revised July 2020)
    • Case

    Revenue Recognition at HBP

    By: Paul Healy and Siko Sikochi
    In early 2014, Paul Bills, CFO of Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), sat down with David Wan, the company’s CEO, to discuss budget preparations for the coming year. Bills noted that the performance of Corporate Learning, one of HBP’s three business units, would be... View Details
    Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Budgets and Budgeting; Revenue Recognition; Financial Reporting; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry; United States
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    • 30 Apr 2024
    • Book

    When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

    she contributed to the recently published Research Handbook on Organisational Integrity, Paine revisits her earlier work and again urges managers to see ethics as an organization-wide imperative, not just a personal issue, and lead... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • November 2009
    • Article

    Telegraphs—Shrinking Economic Distances? A Preliminary Enquiry, 1870s-1912

    By: Felipe Tamega Fernandes
    This is a very preliminary report on sources and data for my research on telegraphs. Telegraphs are usually analysed in the context of railway expansion and the literature has somewhat neglected the role of telegraphic communication for the development of steamship... View Details
    Keywords: Economic History; Communication Technology; Rail Transportation; Ship Transportation; Telecommunications Industry
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    • 23 Oct 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: October 23, 2007

    Identifies the challenges for experienced leaders who transition from their primary income-earning careers to a next phase of public service or social-purpose work, based on interviews and published sources. Purchase this case:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 May 2016
    • First Look

    First Look, May 3, 2016

    2016 Berrett-Koehler Publishers Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Susan Salter Reynolds Abstract—Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 10 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 10

    Corporation, must decide whether to push JAL group, Japan's largest airline, into bankruptcy or to act as a sponsor in an out-of-court restructuring. The bankruptcy of JAL would be the largest ever for an industrial firm in Japan's... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
    • 24 Aug 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: August 24

    their country's institutions, some have undertaken wholesale changes, while others have attempted to influence the rules in other countries. We survey past attempts at governance innovation, from private governance in India's industrial... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Sep 2015
    • First Look

    September 29, 2015

    innovations from industry outsiders who saw economic opportunities where others didn’t—and how these mainstream firms had no choice but to innovate themselves. New models were tried: some succeeded, some failed. Commercial markets turned... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

    a fictional elevator company, invest a lot of money in reskilling its entire staff? The industry is moving from hardware to software in the form of smart, connected elevators. But instead of laying off legacy hardware staff and hiring new... View Details