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- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
on the team. Although she had been the key decision-maker in the early weeks of the project, Julia Narino now finds that her team increasingly discounts her deep client expertise while deferring to the senior partner's more generalized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
like what we call family medicine today. “We didn’t know about that concept at the time, but we thought people needed that kind of doctor,” Nomaguchi says. They named the company Platanus, after the tree under which Hippocrates taught the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
What They Are Reading Jeff Bussgang Two of my books during the “summer of COVID” have been a deep case study into perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
customers, community, and society—not just shareholders. These CEOs operate from deep beliefs and values. Their purpose is to leave a legacy of a great firm. Some were founders but most had arrived in the CEO role much later in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
should be better seen as the product of a specific historical era and a particular place, essentially the United States. The chapter on family firms shows that they could be as successful or more so than the managerial firms that Chandler... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
of ways, but it won’t solve the tangible barriers to production and consumption that the pandemic has imposed. So it won’t be enough to turn a downward spiral into an upward spiral, as in the past. To be sure, large scale government spending is needed to prevent... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
And at Burning Man, it has that same family feeling where you share with people what you have to offer. And they share with you. It's so incredible the lengths that people go to give gifts, some very elaborate jewelry that they've made,... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
the future," he concluded. "If you want to buy a home today, you better have great credit. You better have a down payment. That all sounds fine and secure, but it certainly leaves behind millions of families who are at the lower... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
book. They were successfully creating commitment to the firm and its purpose in all their stakeholders. We wanted to take a deep dive into how these CEOs thought, spoke, and described their stewardship of the company. I want to emphasize... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
and encourages the continued creation of deep knowledge within the field, as well as collaborative research across disciplines that develops and incorporates insights from service operations. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
what's really the job is to oversee a production from start to finish. But really, when you're deep into the production process, to hand over the keys to a director and then continue to work with that director and the whole production... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
ready now.” We had been counting on two more days to finish our work along a 56-mile front — reducing physical obstacles, such as berms, ditches, and electrified fences, to clear lanes for American forces to roll into Iraq from Kuwait. But the word was that View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
not doing this to increase our sales ... or our profits." Our sample cases have exhibited remarkable correlation between altruistic drives and family companies. From an ethical point of view, it is to be expected that individuals... View Details