Charts - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

he's done so, Silk has charted fundamental changes in the advertising business—some of them well known, others that address long-standing puzzles or that challenge conventional wisdom. In a trio of papers, Silk has laid out his research... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

Charting a Path, Point by Point "I spend my days working with a small, entrepreneurial team helping to build companies that are working to solve some of the most pressing challenges we face in terms of energy and the environment." David... View Details

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

A couple of years ago, hip-hop artist Macklemore topped the Billboard 100 chart with Thrift Shop, a paean to buying inexpensive used clothing from Goodwill Industries. Indeed, like the rapper, millions of people know Goodwill primarily as... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

of the most powerful political and economic jobs in the world, this book charts Al-Naimi’s extraordinary rise to power. Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business and Create the Future by Scott D. Anthony (MBA 2001), Clark... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

Covering the Issues

future." Two years later, an article charting the history of computerization and noting that the School had recently purchased its own data-processing equipment concluded with a prophetic question, "Is individual privacy to become the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

in Congress, U.S. public opinion at the time of the bill’s passage was mixed but sharply split along party lines. Which appraisal of TCJA would prove to be right? Would TCJA's changes last, or would the American public end up rejecting them and vote in a government to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

managers from 20 firms to gather best practices of the companies that do collaborative innovation correctly. They also charted how global teamwork can misfire. The research built upon expertise developed in Wipro's own collaboration... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2007
News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

aspects of organization.” Neither organization charts nor the “grossly misleading” application of economics to the management of business firms could be relied upon to give satisfactory administrative results. Yet as Donham himself had... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

step-by-step, room-by-room guidance on how to create a welcoming and functioning space that expresses your unique individuality. Breaking Through: Leadership Disciplines from Top Performing Staffing Firms by Mike Cleland and Barry Asin (MBA 1988) View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

innovation in the American financial system over much of the 20th century. In fact, for the next fifty years, the country experienced no major financial crises, the longest such period on record (see chart above). Significant financial... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

people familiar with charts that are dynamic and show progress...that can help us circumvent any infighting and keep moving forward,” she says. Those innocuous pie charts were a flag planted on a hill—a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

03 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607075 UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action? Harvard Business School Case 707-511 Marco Suter, Executive Vice-Chairman, UBS Board of Directors, carefully studied the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

charted the results and coined the term "happy zone" for that area of the strike zone where "I could hit .400 or better [versus] the low outside corner—where the most I could hope to bat was .230."2 Elliot Ross: The... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

13 Sep 2016
First Look

September 13, 2016

Ning Tang, founder and CEO, chart the future strategic direction of CreditEase? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316151-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-185 Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

children’s mental health ser-vices. In 2004, Youth Villages sought Bridgespan’s help in developing a strategic growth plan that charted expansion into six states, called for building a business development unit, and introduced new... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

In an effort to survive in the new economy, some-industrial giants have tried to chart an evolutionary path that combines their industrial core with new post-industrial businesses. The companies from our study that are most clearly... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

greater competence. August 2013 Business History Review Charting Dynamic Trajectories: Multinational Firms in India By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—In this article, we provide a synthesizing framework that we call the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Aug 2024
News

Quantum Leap

company will be able to begin ramping up from a handful of qubits to thousands of them or more. Nonetheless, sitting in a meeting room back at the design and testing facility, scrolling through charts and graphs that illustrate the... View Details

21 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

Authors:Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun, and Julie Wulf Abstract For both practitioners and researchers, span of control plays an important role in defining and understanding the role of the CEO. In this paper, we combine organizational View Details