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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
First, information of the sort that would allow shareholders to police corporate behavior on issues, such as the use of child labor, is not easily accessible. Although some companies, such as Royal Dutch Shell, have started to publish... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- October 2001
- Case
TIGR and ILRI: Solving Problems with Genomics
By: Ray A. Goldberg and James M Beagle
Discusses nonprofit institutional leadership applying advances in genetic science to solve health and animal problems in industrial countries and the developing world. View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
private assets, and personal saving, represent exercises in linguistics, not economics. Technological Innovation and Organizations Authors: Josh Lerner and Pierre Azoulay Publication: In Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
Arena, edited by Deborah E. Gibbons Author:Herman B. Leonard Publication:IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., forthcoming Abstract What accounts for whether governments will be able to provide effective responses to unfolding disaster... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the PRIDE Club
community's use of the traditional acronym "LGBT." In ensuing discussions, they sought a name that would be most welcoming as a club and community at Harvard Business School, while remaining externally recognizable as an LGBTQ+ student View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
benefits to part-time workers. We have a consulting firm poll our workers every year to find out how they feel about the company, and they've told us that they've never seen such a positive response in an organization of this size — the... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
core markets, while also winning in new domains. Clayton M. Christensen has been pessimistic about whether established companies can prevail in the face of disruption. Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael L. Tushman have a contrasting point of view. The authors explain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
required to disclose any whiff of misbehavior to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), an independent monitoring organization regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. A research team examined those records to... View Details
- Blog
Inside the Learning: How Faculty Prepare for Class
Managing Sales Teams and Distribution Channel, Leading in the Digital Era): I always make sure to stay in touch with practitioners and leaders, read trade magazines, news, and journals, and continue to be informed of what's going on in... View Details
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455.
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details
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2023 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Financials From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financials From the CFO... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
type of thinking Shalia commented: "I think the growth rate of large organizations slow(s) down precisely for this reason-not being able to separate decisions which need deliberations vs. quick decisions." Phillippe Gouambe was... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 May 2020
- Blog Post
Creating a World with Trusted Leaders: An Open Letter from MBA Students
him and still jumped on calls with us early the next morning. Our professors also connected us with their work and research. For example, Buell’s research helped us think through the connection between COVID-19 and how “even in the best of times, customers reward View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Blog Posts of 2018
with your career interests, and finally, you need to pitch yourself for those opportunities. Using this framework, CPD helps international students who are looking to work in the U.S. after graduation discover what organizations are open... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
organizations address workforce transitions and cope with a shifting economic landscape far better than layoffs do. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54502 May–June 2018 Harvard Business Review What Most... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Capital Regulation By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We propose three core principles that should inform the design of bank capital regulation. First, wherever possible, multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
adopted radical candor between principals and teachers but also between teachers and students. A lot of very large, industrial companies all over the world are starting to use the principles of radical candor and roll them out to help their View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
non-profit organizations, and for-profit firms including financial institutions. They embody a number of different assumptions about incentives, drawing from economics, psychology, and sociology. We describe examples of each program and provide some View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
extensions to their proprietary solutions. The internal development organization felt that an off-the-shelf solution would never perform well enough to substitute for its proprietary technology. This belief had frustrated Domit's ability... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
1977) is chairman and CEO of Buenos Aires-based Velox Group, a privately held organization with a line of supermarkets, banks, and finance companies spanning five South American countries. He notes, "You need to be prescient, nimble, and... View Details