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  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

By the end of his early career, Williams had won additional supporters within the company, including Barrett's boss and several white peers who, when they were promoted to management before Williams, vouched... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
  • 06 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

progressed in different parts of one country. We could keep many things constant—the conflict's ultimate goals, the personality of the leader, the tactics, the kind of a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade

engineering. There she helped suppliers design and certify their systems for flight: new seats for an aircraft, for example, or a Wi-Fi system for the new Delta Air Lines plane. She was surprised to find... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services
  • January 2023 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

First to Fight? Culture, Tradition, and the United States Marine Corps (USMC)

By: Ranjay Gulati, Akhil Iyer and Joel Malkin
Over a history of more than 240 years, the United States Marine Corps has forged a distinct culture and institutional identity centered on its “warrior ethos.” In the wars of American history, Marines fought with uncommon valor, rising to international prominence for... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Government Administration; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; United States
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  • 04 Apr 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

"Investors should put more emphasis on how brand IP is managed in the environment rather than on the IP asset itself." Paul Jackson adds that "... it's got to be businesses (that defend IP) ... as laws get in the way View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 09 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
  • 19 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

technologies developed by the Sony Corporation. In this same astonishingly brief period, Japan's computer makers had become Europe's dominant suppliers of large computer systems and had captured the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology
  • February 2001
  • Case

Free Trade vs. Protectionism: The Great Corn-Laws Debate

By: David A. Moss, Kevin P. Brennan, Matthew B. Gorin and Marian Lee
Examines the extended conflict between free traders and protectionists in nineteenth-century Britain. It culminates with Prime Minister Robert Peel's decision at the end of 1845 about whether to repeal the Corn Laws, a series of acts that had protected British... View Details
Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Legislation; Change Management; Competitive Advantage; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Market Entry and Exit; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Great Britain
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  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

firms, we find that when institutional efficiency is low, family ownership and management increase value; however, family control in excess of ownership reduces value. When... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

of managers. The best way to address this is to widen the span of control for everyone between the CEO and first-line employees. Instead of six... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Where Are They Now?

systems from Purdue. He joined the HBS faculty in 1976 and helped build the School’s curriculum in the nascent area of computer-based technology. With a few savvy, prescient students, he launched the... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Management; Management; Management; Management; Management
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

underlying your strategy and analyze how it's implemented through your business processes and structures. Drawing on decades of research into performance management systems and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2007
  • Book

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism

By: G. Jones and Rohit Daniel Wadhwani
These volumes demonstrates the importance of historical perspectives in the study of entrepreneurship. By exploring the role of entrepreneurship in the history of global capitalism, the authors show that historical knowledge can challenge widely accepted... View Details
Keywords: History; Diasporas; Economic Systems; Globalized Economies and Regions; Globalized Firms and Management; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Noted & Quoted

consulting company, writing about Google’s new Chrome operating system (Huffington Post, July 13, 2009). “Echo boomers are larger than the baby boomer population. Couple that with immigration and you have the seeds, the possibility View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • April 2012 (Revised July 2012)
  • Supplement

Man Group (B)

By: Robert C. Pozen and Thomas M. Clay
The Man Group was a huge and successful UK-based hedge fund and fund of funds manager. Through acquisitions, the company had consciously diversified its portfolio of investment products. In 2007 Man had to decide whether or not to spin off its brokerage business. Man... View Details
Keywords: Hedge Funds; Asset Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Investment Funds; Corporate Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Light Years Ahead

team, an experience that convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually “clueless” about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • 21 Jul 2006
  • Op-Ed

Enron Jury Sent the Right Message

hedges, the breakdowns in the company's performance review and internal control processes, the intolerance of internal dissent, and the inability of Lay and Skilling to face... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Relational Contracts and Organizational Capabilities

By: R. Gibbons and R. Henderson
A large literature identifies unique organizational capabilities as a potent source of competitive advantage, yet our knowledge of why capabilities fail to diffuse more rapidly-particularly in situations in which competitors apparently have strong incentives to adopt... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Contracts; Competency and Skills; Relationships; Complexity
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  • 25 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

As part of the Harvard Business School (HBS) Advancing Racial Equity action plan, 26 students from the MBA Classes of 2025 and 2026 have been named recipients of a Recognizing... View Details
  • 27 Aug 2007
  • Op-Ed

Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right

million toys manufactured in China with lead paint and/or loose, potentially dangerous magnets. Clearly Mattel did not have sufficiently tight quality control procedures in its supply chain to compensate for the extra risks View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products