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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
kid” at Ford Motor Company, McNamara climbed the corporate ladder and, after fourteen years, was named president (the first from outside the Ford family) in November 1960. Bucking sacrosanct industry notions, he promoted vehicle safety and seat belts, View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
and instructions for employing the 4+2 formula. They also warn readers that although they believe they are offering the most statistically effective approach to achieving the highest performance, it requires a high degree of stamina and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
matter to leave to tech departments, no matter how good they may be,” warns HBS assistant professor Robert D. Austin. “That’s because, more than being a technical problem, achieving cyber security is an operational issue that requires... View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
Apple and government authorities from accessing data stored on the device. Law enforcement officials warned that the encryption hindered investigations for criminal cases and international terrorism and called on Apple to build a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
have complained about for almost two decades. Every year like clockwork, biotech executives warn that the industry is on the verge of consolidating. So far, that hasn't happened. To Pisano, the issue of fragmentation is not as simple as... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
adjustment I had to make was getting used to the case method. The quick pace and fluid discussion of case-based teaching was very different from lecturing. As some of the senior historians here at HBS had warned me, I had much less... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
has for hundreds of years been looking at this dream of the Arctic as a new Mediterranean. Henry Hudson’s goal of the Northwest Passage is realizable in our lifetime. Finally, the Arctic has always been a first line of defense, dating back to the Cold War’s Distant... View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
today what business they are in, and you will still get too many answering in terms of products or services. This practice still exists more than five decades after the legendary Harvard Business School marketing professor Ted Levitt View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
minds, there are times when we really wonder if they are 'getting it.'" Therefore, the warning signal to all of us, not just in the United States and the U.K., but also around the world, is that there is a very common problem of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
regulations should focus on. Repressing too much would be a problem. Obviously, Brazilian bankers at the turn of the 20th century were relatively conservative. They had mortgages on their balance sheets, but monitored them closely. At the end of the book I View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
Exercise will improve sleep and increase your desire for nutritious food. In addition, with the exception of sleep, all of these activities can be done in short bursts of 10 to 15 minutes. Flight attendants’ warning to “Put your own... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
political analysts say it’s a tough race to call and that Taylor should climb above 40 percent of the vote. All those Edwards campaign signs in Crawford may be an early warning that folks here still have an independent streak and vote for... View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
ASOS was large by online standards, traditional fashion retailers were building their own online sales capabilities, and Amazon was expanding its apparel offering. Meanwhile, new online competitors were emerging at a rapid rate. After ASOS issued several profit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
offer a warning label to accompany the practice of setting goals. Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation Authors:Lucy White and Alan Morrison Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
be an early warning sign: I f you can't get insurance in a particular locale, it probably is a place you shouldn't build, right? Should you build on stilts in coastal communities where we know hurricanes are going to get more intense... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
change, are unacceptable. So the imperative is there. But the good news is that there's also, a tremendous amount of momentum-- two words-- a new energy system, that even if you were to not believe in science and ignore the warnings on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Lever Brothers’ Lifebuoy Soap, launched in 1926, warned of the grave personal and business consequences caused by “body odor,” a concept which Lever invented and its products prevented. Hygiene was increasingly associated with beauty. The... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
female. The percentage of new director seats filled by women last year was 39 percent, down from 44 percent the prior year. Equilar warns that, at that rate, boards won’t hit gender parity until 2032—that’s two years later than what the... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
requires careful dosing, consideration of harmful side effects, and close supervision. We offer a warning label to accompany the practice of setting goals. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-083.pdf Virtual Team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
force that I commanded, Bold Eagle Bravo, proudly followed the Seventh Marines into Safwan, Iraq. The people there, while pleased to see us, were still frightened and hesitant. One woman, whose son was shot for avoiding military duty, showed me that her ear had been... View Details