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  • 03 Jan 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

Scouts of the USA from 1976 to 1990, was ranked by Fortune magazine in 2015, according to her obituary, as the “37th in its list of the world’s 50 greatest leaders, ahead of Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase.” Peter View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 04 Aug 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

simplicity lies the ultimate sophistication." Many agreed with the author while placing common sense in a broader context. Herb Brotspies quoted Peter Drucker to make his point: "The greatest... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • September 2002 (Revised December 2005)
  • Case

DaimlerChrysler Post-Merger Integration (A)

By: Richard F. Meyer, Michael G. Rukstad, Peter J. Coughlan and Stephan A. Jansen
Describes the background, process, and aftermath of the merger between Daimler-Benz of Germany and Chrysler Corp. of America. Describes the economic structure and trends of the world automobile industry at the turn of the century as well as the individual histories and... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Negotiation Process; Corporate Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Auto Industry; Germany; United States
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  • 16 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

refreshing their product lines and extending their brand to more affordable items. Pressure to innovate is intense, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Economic Forum: 2008. Porter, Michael E., H. Takeuchi, and M. Sakakibara (2000), Can Japan Compete?, Basic Books and Perseus Publishing, New York: 2000. Rodríguez, F. and D. Rodrik. 2000. "Trade Policy and Economic Growth: A... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 07 Jun 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Important are Big Ideas?

successors to the U.S. and Peter Drucker and his disciples, with a brief detour through Japan during the 1980s? And what does all of this portend for the future of competitive advantage, particularly in an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

expansion." In this excerpt, they detail seven such strategies that corporate leaders can pursue. Pick Up the Scraps. As Peter Drucker recently noted, for every megamerger or large acquisition, there... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
  • January 2004
  • Teaching Note

Ford Motor Company's Value Enhancement Plan (A) (TN)

By: Andre F. Perold and Peter Tufano
Teaching Note to (9-201-079). View Details
Keywords: Auto Industry
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  • 06 Aug 2014
  • What Do You Think?

What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?

Summing Up Was Warren Bennis's Optimism Regarding the Future of Leadership Warranted? In a recent obituary for Warren Bennis in the New York Times, former executive and HBS Professor Bill George was quoted as writing that "I look at View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 01 Jul 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

sense of co-creation and ensure engagement.” Do asrarqureshi and Jainn have something here? Do super stretch goals require more commitment than a large organization can muster? What do you think? Original Column Remember the days when management by objectives was a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 1998
  • Other Unpublished Work

Pursuing Value: The Information Reporting Gap in the Swiss Capital Markets

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr. and Peter F. Weibel
Keywords: Capital Markets; Performance; Financial Reporting; Switzerland
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  • 2018
  • Article

Three Perspectives on Evidence-based Management: Rank, Fit, Variety

By: Tuna Cem Hayirli and Peter F. Martelli
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  • 2019
  • Article

Gene Drives as a Response to Infection and Resistance

By: Tuna Cem Hayirli and Peter F. Martelli
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  • April 2012
  • Article

Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures

By: Dennis Campbell, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and Peter Tufano
Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure resulting from excessive overdraft activity. Consumers who have accounts involuntarily closed for overdraft activity may have limited or no access to... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Customers; Social Issues; Outcome or Result; Budgets and Budgeting; Forecasting and Prediction; Competition; Banks and Banking; Policy; Personal Characteristics; Credit; Employment; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

product—micro-cap stock research. The firm has hired a group of five analysts who will produce written research reports on micro-cap stocks, that is, publicly traded stocks with a market capitalization of less than $250 million. Peter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 12

Grants David F. HawkinsHarvard Business School Case 111-087 Analyst questions the value of accounting measurement of earnings per share and stock option costs for equity valuation purposes. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Article

Causal Inference in Accounting Research

By: Ian D. Gow, David F. Larcker and Peter C. Reiss
This paper examines the approaches accounting researchers use to draw causal inferences using observational (or non-experimental) data. The vast majority of accounting research papers draws causal inferences notwithstanding the well-known difficulties in doing so with... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Research
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  • 07 Nov 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is Less Becoming More?

the cause. F. Chircu helped frame the discussion by writing that "When producers want to differentiate themselves, up to a point the safest and quickest way . . . is to add features or increase product complexity. . . . Choice... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Consumer Products
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

thinking to guide management decisions. Thus, Peter Drucker argued that "management is not just passive, adaptive behavior; it means taking action to make the desired results come to pass." He... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 23 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

clear, our research is aimed at the organizational level. And in that context, the idea of tradeoffs is nothing new. Peter Drucker and others have said it, and people accept the concept when you are talking... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service

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