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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
violating all the rules. Johnstone: Somebody's standing in the opposition line, and this 250-pound former American football player goes ramming straight in and knocks him over. Well, you're not allowed to do that in rugby. You can't knock... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management?
grades providing some evidence of possible future success on the job. They raised the most provocative questions for all of us to continue to ponder. Cheri Thomas led the opposition to disclosure, commenting, "Yikes, what an awful... View Details
- 02 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Spending on Happiness
happiness, would we be more likely to spend money on others instead of on ourselves? A: We were actually most worried about the opposite problem, whether knowing about the effect of prosocial spending might erase it, if people engaged in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
with their best customers. While some retailers at the beginning of the e-commerce phenomenon feared that adding another channel would simply add costs and erode their other channels, she said the opposite is true in many cases.... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
is the appropriate response to what assuredly would be opposition from U.S. labor unions? Or is there an intermediate step perhaps involving renewable work permits requiring a periodic return to Mexico, something many migrants do anyway?... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
Let's get one thing straight from the start: Apple and Amazon are not friends. If they were high school students, they'd be mean girls glaring at each other from opposite sides of the cafeteria, jealously forcing their friends to pick... View Details
- 01 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
trip he had made in the opposite direction 34 years previously, after having lived for two years in Chile. At that time, he was going to Boston to study at Harvard. "When the plane took off, it flew over the Andes," Austin told... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
How I Sourced My Internship Outside of the US: Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu
Nyantekyi-Owusu. “I heard this recommendation from my personal mentors as well but spending the summer in the US didn’t set me on fire. It didn’t give me that buzz. My intuition told me to look for opportunities with startups in Africa, and even though that felt like... View Details
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
rulings―separated by several weeks and going in opposite directions―that affected the antitakeover force of SBs. We contribute to the long-standing debate on staggered boards by documenting empirical evidence consistent with the market... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’
are the opposite of the pack rats who fill their attics and basements with "you-never-know-when-you-might-need-it" stuff. Second, they want to collect experiences, not possessions. And they give experiences rather than goods as gifts to... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Recruiting in the U.S. for International Students: 101
weeks before I got my offer I was spending as much time in recruiting activities as in class. What’s interesting, now that I know the ending, is how much I resisted actually pursuing the career that I wanted and how, regardless of my efforts in the View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 19 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Bridges: Remembering the “Why”
nature," Professor Frei said of her matrix, "runs on the opposite diagonal." But that's why being great isn't as simple as having the right answer and telling everyone about it. You don't get there without devotion to the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
senior managers' communications with frontline workers regarding their corrective actions had a clear negative impact on frontline workers' perceptions of the organizational climate for improvement—quite the opposite of what they had... View Details
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
a ton of money, and we'd be done." In fact, just the opposite occurred. "We ran it a few more times with the same results before the market collapsed and reached the predicted equilibrium," Coval says. "And it's worked... View Details
- 19 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways
impressive monitoring system. However, the truth is that opportunities to add capacity with new dams are limited. Building dams is difficult due to the complex siting requirements and opposition from local residents who are often... View Details
- Web
3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog
create a global utopia by solving intractable problems like climate change, ending the need for humans to work for a living and bringing the cost of energy to zero. Why are normally balanced leaders taking such extreme and opposite... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation
During this time enemy activity markedly increased to Major Gurfein’s front while at the same time enemy mortar fire was being “walked” down the berm towards his position. Without warning, the enemy opposite Major Gurfein came under fire... View Details
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
economic activity away from the US. In fact, the evidence suggests the opposite as firms expand globally, they also expand domestically. Indeed, American welfare can be advanced by ensuring that investments in the US and abroad are owned... View Details
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
and specialized interest in a political issue, and face little political opposition in the process. "In any given issue, there's a handful of people who are truly experts and those are also the people with the strongest commercial... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
managers who trade in foreign debt as well as for emerging market countries. "The cost of funds will go up," naysayers may cry. "We won't get any money; no one will invest in us." “If you lend to Argentina, you are dealing with Argentina” But I... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro