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    Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research

    I think that most business school research should examine and help solve real-world problems that managers are facing--or that they might face in the future. This means that these scholars need to choose relevant research questions, and propose and test hypotheses... View Details

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    HBS - The year in Review

    how to eradicate inequality, as well as the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship , which is a one-year program for alumni in health care startups. Recipients for 2021-22 were Dan Ahlstedt... View Details

      F. Warren McFarlan

      Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at... View Details

      Keywords: health care; health care; health care; health care; health care; health care; health care
      • 03 Oct 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

      By the end of the 1960s, McLean's SeaLand Industries had twenty-seven thousand trailer-type containers, thirty-six trailer ships, and access to over thirty port cities. With a top market position, SeaLand... View Details
      Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace
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      Enter Elton Mayo – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

      take no account of human nature and social motives, so long may we expect strikes and sabotage to be the ordinary accompaniment of industry. Elton Mayo, Professor of Industrial Management, Harvard Business School, 1920 Elton Mayo at... View Details
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      Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors

      By: Susan Helper and Rebecca Henderson
      General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the U.S. market fell from 62.6% to 19.8%, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this paper we argue that the conventional... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Practices and Processes; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; United States
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      • 28 Nov 2018
      • HBS Case

      On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

      mistake of treating their online unit as a mere add-on to the store. Target, by contrast, spent much time focusing on how data could be used specifically to help build its web arm. And the retailer was View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
      • 16 Aug 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The International Politics of IFRS Harmonization

      Keywords: by Karthik Ramanna; Accounting
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Bollywood, Skin Color and Sexism: The Role of the Film Industry in Emboldening and Contesting Stereotypes in India after Independence

      By: Sudev Sheth, Geoffrey Jones and Morgan Spencer
      This working paper examines the social impact of the film industry in India during the first four decades after Indian Independence in 1947. It shows that Bollywood, the mainstream cinema in India and the counterpart in scale to Hollywood in the United States, shared... View Details
      Keywords: Film Industry; Bollywood; Tamil Cinema; Male Gaze; Social Impact; Stereotypes; Oral History; Film Entertainment; Gender; Race; Personal Characteristics; Prejudice and Bias; Business History; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; India
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      • Portrait Project

      Sarah Moore

      funded my education, and pushed me to set goals I had never before imagined.  These families gave me three truths to carry forward: I am without shame: I care more about... View Details
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      (Mis)perceptions of Inequality

      By: Oliver P. Hauser and Michael I. Norton
      Inequality is arguably the defining societal issue of the 21st century. The debate over “who gets what’ underlies policy debates ranging from taxation to health care to wages and permeates society at all levels, attracting increasing interest from policymakers,... View Details
      Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Wealth and Poverty; Perception; Society; Policy
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      • 02 Aug 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: August 2

      pharmaceutical and skin care company. During World War I the expropriation of its brands and trademarks revealed its vulnerability to political risk. Following the advent of the Nazi regime in 1933, the... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Value Creation Through Effective Boards

      materials, and bank details needed to pay tuition. Once payment is confirmed, you will receive an email confirming your place in the program. You will also receive access to... View Details
      • 26 Mar 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: March 26

      of employees. We show that employees rely on this information to increase access to credit for borrowers, provide more favorable pricing terms, and reduce the ex-post risk of... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Research Summary

      The role of the manager in cross-sector interactions

      My second stream of research takes the individual manager as the unit of analysis in examining cross-sector interactions.  Two papers explore processes and mechanisms that allow managers to cross sectoral boundaries more effectively.

      The first paper... View Details
      • 27 Jun 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

      be open and forthcoming about their business model. As Asian companies seek access to world capital markets, they will move toward professional managers who will employ leadership styles more akin View Details
      Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
      • 07 Jul 2023
      • Blog Post

      Harvard Innovation Labs: Where Passion and Purpose Meet

      could access the resources of innovation and entrepreneurship. These include a wide range of courses and programs; maker, media, and AR/VR studios; experienced mentors; and opportunities for funding. Over the last decade, the ecosystem... View Details

        Joey Ryu

        Joey (Won Jung) Ryu is a doctoral student in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School. Her primary interests are strategic management, economics of innovation and entrepreneurship. Prior to joining HBS, Joey recieved her master's degree from Cornell University... View Details
        Keywords: health care; health care; health care; health care; health care
        • Research Summary

        The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

        The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
        • March 2012 (Revised September 2012)
        • Case

        INRIX

        By: Lynda M. Applegate and Ryan Johnson
        Since its founding in 2004, INRIX, a leading global provider of traffic information and driver services, had received four rounds of financing from leading venture capital (VC) firms and by 2012 had been cash flow positive for the past six quarters. Its founder, Bryan... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Startups; Organizational Structure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry; Washington (state, US)
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