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  • March 2018
  • Article

Global Business over Time

By: Geoffrey Jones
This article explores how business enterprises have been powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism between 1840 and the present day. It also shows how global firms, emerging out of industrialized Western economies, created and co-created markets and ecosystems... View Details
Keywords: Global; Multinational; Business History; Globalization; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Economic Systems
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  • January 2013 (Revised January 2015)
  • Case

FX Risk Hedging at EADS

By: W. Carl Kester, Vincent Dessain and Karol Misztal
In 2008, EADS, the European aerospace group that owns Airbus, was faced with the decision of how best to hedge a large and growing mismatch between its dollar revenues and its euro manufacturing costs. Specifically, the company needed to decide if it would continue... View Details
Keywords: Derivatives; Foreign Exchange; Options; Forward Contract; Aerospace; Europe; Risk Management; Futures and Commodity Futures; Aerospace Industry; Europe
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  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

subsumed by the other three. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53024 August 2017 Obstetrics & Gynecology Relationship Between Labor and Delivery Unit Management Practices and Maternal Outcomes By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

The Decreasing Value of Our Research to Management Education

By: Jone L. Pearce and Laura Huang
For centuries we have expected the best teachers also to be scholars. The practice of scholarship should do more than make scholars more humble teachers; scholarship is expected to be more than an activity done for its own sake. Here we present evidence that our... View Details
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    Michael A. Wheeler

    Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

    Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
    • 20 Apr 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

    without anyone realizing that they are doing anything wrong. Q: What is motivational blindness? A: Motivational blindness is the tendency to not notice the unethical actions of others when it is against our own best interests to... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 2008
    • Chapter

    Knowledge Work, Craft Work, and Calling

    Social critics have often complained that industrial revolution management transfers control of a job away from workers, encourages human exploitation in pursuit of cost minimization, and alienates workers from their labor. But the arrangements of work that have been... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Working Conditions; Production; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Practices and Processes; Employees
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    • 9 Jul 2021
    • Interview

    Matthew Barzun and Amy Edmondson

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Matthew Barzun
    Writer Matthew Barzun speaks with Harvard Professor and author Amy Edmondson about Barzun's book, "The Power of Giving Away Power: How the Best Leaders Learn to Let Go". Matthew Barzun has served as U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom and Sweden. He served as... View Details
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      Open Innovation – How can I use the crowd?

      Innovation has become an urgent imperative for entrepreneurial and established organizations. Over the last decade, in industries as diverse as fashion design, media software, life sciences, pharmaceuticals and automotive, the most cutting edge organizations have... View Details

        HBS Case: FX Risk Hedging at EADS

        In 2008, EADS, the European aerospace group that owns Airbus, was faced with the decision of how best to hedge a large and growing mismatch between its dollar revenues and its euro manufacturing costs. Specifically, the company needed to decide if it would continue... View Details

        • 27 Feb 2012
        • Research & Ideas

        When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)

        have received significant media attention recently, "less flagrant transgressions of research norms may be more prevalent and, in the long run, more damaging to the academic enterprise." In an attempt to get researchers to honestly report questionable View Details
        Keywords: by Katie Johnston; Education
        • 29 Aug 2008
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls

        Keywords: by Guillaume R. Fréchette, Alvin E. Roth & M. Utku Ünver; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
        • 2019
        • Chapter

        A Claim to Own Productive Property

        By: Nien-hê Hsieh
        BOOK ABSTRACT: The status of economic liberties remains a serious lacuna in the theory and practice of human rights. Should a minimally just society protect the freedoms to sell, save, profit, and invest? Is being prohibited to run a business a human rights violation?... View Details
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        • 2025
        • Book

        The World Is Your Office: How Work from Anywhere Boosts Talent, Productivity, and Innovation

        By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
        A research-based look at a growing phenomenon—companies allowing their employees to work from anywhere in the world—and how those who adopt this model can boost talent, innovation, and productivity.
        In recent years, companies in a wide range of industries have... View Details
        Keywords: Remote Work; Telecommuting; Employees; Business Offices; Organizational Culture; Retention; Recruitment; Policy; Competitive Advantage
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        • 30 Jan 2012
        • Research & Ideas

        Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

        organizational management practices all over the world. The project was borne of a widely perceived gap in economic research. In business academia, there is an optimistic tendency to assume that managers generally make decisions in the... View Details
        Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
        • 01 Aug 2017
        • First Look

        First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

        alluring qualities of a brand without committing to it. We propose that brand flirting is exciting and that when consumers flirt with a brand other than their typically preferred brand in the same product category, they can transfer this... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • Program

        Competing in the Age of AI—Virtual

        leveraging massive amounts of data and sophisticated analytics. This program is eligible for the Digital Transformation Certificate. Learn More Key Benefits This online artificial intelligence course is a "how-to" guide that demystifies AI and its View Details
        • 2008
        • Working Paper

        The Future of Social Enterprise

        By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Herman B. Leonard and Susan McDonald

        The Future of Social Enterprise considers the confluence of forces that is shaping the field of social enterprise, changing the way that funders, practitioners, scholars, and organizations measure performance. We trace a growing pool of potential funding sources to... View Details

        Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Performance Effectiveness; Social Enterprise; Consolidation; Value
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        • 06 Sep 2004
        • What Do You Think?

        How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

        Specifically, Martin Edic points out that "Much of global air business travel, for example, is unnecessary ... (with) broadband connections combined with free VoIP software." Necessary behaviors can be fostered by incentives as well as education and the View Details
        Keywords: by James Heskett
        • 03 Jun 2024
        • Blog Post

        Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description

        Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging practices Is this role in-person, remote, or hybrid? Evaluate what qualifications are essential Some roles need a specific degree or require years of experience in a particular function or... View Details
        Keywords: All Industries