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- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
business unit structures in management thinking, except that healthcare is still stuck in the functional model. These forms of competition and organization have also been institutionalized in medical education and in physician certification. Nobody deliberately View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
he says, will become longer, fatter, and more profitable. Elberse set out to investigate whether Anderson's long-tail theory is actually playing out in today's markets. She focused on the music and home-video industries—two markets that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
that the affordable housing buzz started in India, along with the Indian president's call for a "slum-free India." Apprehensive about both government and real-estate developers, my husband, an architect from Italy, and I moved to Delhi and View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
considerably better off, even as it creates both winners and losers, and the losers often suffer through no fault of their own. A capitalist economy should be judged not just on the aggregate economic improvement driven by its innovation... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
ingrained in our capitalist system, and the conceptual and practical problems presented by this doctrine and related theory of the firm. Next, I propose an alternate, principle-based guideline for corporate purpose that blends Aristotle’s theory of reciprocal justice... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
father, James Cole, must set compensation that meets the needs of the family and the business. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808078 Managing in the Information Age Module Note for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Working PapersIntra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We use a new firm-level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
Elkins and her students spent considerable time, before and during their immersion in Cape Town, unpacking cultural and contextual knowledge specific to South Africa, including its apartheid legacies. “Making students aware of this... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
politicians only provide the services people vote for within the civil and property rights protections set forth in the constitution. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
"That number is considerably lower than just about anyone I've asked has imagined," said Ely, Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for culture and community at HBS. "And it's... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
controls the recruitment and tenure of directors, sets the board’s agenda, selects the information that flows to the board, and oversees the process of evaluating CEO performance, directors will find it difficult to shift the power... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
of the Organizational Behavior unit and the HBS Leadership Initiative, believes that the process of becoming a manager requires both a significant psychological transition and a considerable amount of on-the-job training. In the second... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Reforms Set the Stage for Growth When Deng Xiaoping came to power in 1978, he set China on a new course by making economic growth a top priority, even if that meant relinquishing state control over markets.... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
Publication:Academy of Management Annals Abstract The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields-including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research-and has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
future? George C. Lodge: Bureaucratic inertia is strong. Big organizations do not like change. There is considerable mutual suspicion among MNCs, NGOs, and multilateral organizations. They are all busy doing what they are doing. There are... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
transformation has drained considerable risk out of a once notoriously unstable market. A New Industry Emerges Not so long ago, real estate development looked and acted like modern-day "cowboy capitalism." "From the '70s to... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
Spain, was expanding and wanted to exploit customer information to increase commercial effectiveness. At the same time, it was pushing for innovation in the nascent Spanish credit card market. To avoid the considerable investments of time... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
considerable energy to reconstructing Winfrey's life and the path she had forged before founding Harpo (Oprah spelled backwards) Productions. The women saw the project as an entrepreneurial story, according to Koehn, the story of... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
to a variety of services, establish online reputation, and—eventually—find broader application in the physical world, such as for event ticketing. And major media and collectibles franchises will start moving into the NFT space—Pokémon NFTs, for example, could really... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
a unique aspect of our research setting allows us to test who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of display promotions in the short run, they can reallocate these promotions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace