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- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Penelope RossanoHarvard Business School Case 712-490 On October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs tragically died of cancer. The recently retired CEO of Apple Inc. was a legend: he had changed Apple from a company near bankruptcy to one of the largest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
Enron's board of directors fail to understand and act decisively upon increasing internal evidence that Enron was financially distressed and heading toward insolvency? Why did... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
a three-year study of 238 professionals from seven companies in the high-tech, consumer products, and chemicals industries. Without revealing the focus of their study, they asked the subjects (all of whom... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
proprietary platform such as Microsoft has chosen to contribute to the development of Linux. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2102669 Playing Favorites: How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News By: Cohen, Lauren, Dong... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
http://hbr.org/2014/07/unlock-the-mysteries-of-your-customer-relationships/ar/1 July-August 2014 Harvard Business Review Becoming a First-Class Noticer: How to Spot and Prevent Ethical Failures in Your... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
on the review site Yelp shut permanently during the pandemic. Don’t be afraid of bankruptcy protection So, what should consumers and policymakers... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
Reagan had appointed the commission to study defence procurement following a series of scandals involving fraud, waste, and abuse in the industry. Chaired by Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard, the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back
don't forgive that." Ironically, a personal failure often occurs because an entrepreneur is trying too hard to avoid an enterprise failure. Trying to keep the venture capitalists happy and bankruptcy at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
people's likelihood to cross ethical boundaries. A promotion focus leads individuals to be more likely to act unethically than a prevention focus (Studies 1, 2, and 3). These... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
conditions on sequence memory. In addition, conscious thought appeared to increase intrusion nowness and arousal. Limitations. The analogue design and healthy participant sample View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
President George W. Bush expanded the FBI’s mission with a single question for Mueller: What was the FBI doing to prevent the next terrorist attack? And just like that, the brand-new director of the FBI had... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
When Facebook failed to protect the privacy of 87 million people whose data was harvested without their consent in 2015, the company not only circumvented data privacy regulations, it breached the public’s trust. View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52164 forthcoming Explorations in Economic History Prizes, Patents and the Search for Longitude By: Burton, M. Diane, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—The 1714... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
that search engine advertisements tend to be less safe than the corresponding organic listings. Least-Cost Avoiders in Online Fraud and Abuse Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:IEEE Security View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
government spending, and consumer spending—consumer spending being the biggest—the United States consistently spends more than 100 percent of its GDP (as high as 106 percent in 2005 View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
But a short-term focus in many businesses and political gridlock have prevented the U.S. from taking the steps needed to meet the challenge. The U.S. retains core strengths in areas such as entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
legislation, called the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
the United States and Germany in particular, and the United States and European Union more generally, suggests that how countries resolve tensions between View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
on preventing them. She outlines five tactics that research has shown to be effective: encourage reciprocity. You can build trust and prompt other parties to disclose strategic information by sharing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
policy makers can apply these key lessons, many, if not most, of the sagas of waste and disappointment that we have highlighted could be avoided. Entrepreneurs could find a more hospitable climate, and we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace