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- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
purchase low-priced PCs from Acer to resell under the IBM brand. In many cases, alliances are easier to bring about than acquisitions because they encounter less resistance within companies, from the government, and from other interested... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
something completely different.” So Deza chose a third approach. She would merge the two schools and sell one of them. The plan was fraught with risks. One school was all-boys, and the other was all-girls. Her senior school administrators opposed the plan, fearful that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
Resisting the impulse for drastic change, Bhidé offers a blueprint for correcting the historic misalignment between the numbers-driven financial sector and the innovation-driven “real economy.” He advocates tough, straightforward limits... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The Joy of Spending
a good wait, because we got really excited about it. Now that we can watch them all the time, we lose the excitement of anticipation." Buy Time Norton suggests resisting the siren call of the big house in the suburbs. "What we've really... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
compensation does not result in improved performance in American companies, they conclude, corporations abroad should resist pressures to tie incentives to individual and unit performance. Two Best Ways? When HBS assistant professor... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
exploratory research and commercial need: While the NNMI should focus on broad, long-term research, it needs to resist the temptation to develop technologies that the private sector has no interest in. To avoid this, its research agenda... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
Robert Galford (MBA 1976), Cary Greene (MBA 1994), and Bob Frisch. The book is based on the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, which the Office of Strategic Services, precursor to the CIA, issued in 1944 to help European resisters introduce... View Details
- 12 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict
Inaccurate Group Meta-Perceptions Drive Negative Out-Group Attributions in Competitive Contexts, was published in November 2019 in the journal Nature Human Behavior. We want to compromise In a series of experiments, Lees and Cikara found people are much more willing to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
2023 Thaddeus Mosley. Courtesy of the artist and Karma. Carrie Mae Weems, We Go On Mural (Brooklyn) from RESIST COVID/Take 6! , 2020–21. Photo © Jasmine Clarke. Courtesy Carrie Mae Weems and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Yinka... View Details
- Web
Erling Lorentzen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Erling Lorentzen, HBS 1948, was a leader of the underground resistance against German occupation forces in his native Norway during World War II. That experience brought him to HBS as a student. After graduating he joined the family... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
new-economy innovation. "It takes a mix of perspectives," he observes. "Older companies must resist becoming mature, dull, and methodical. They need a youthful view." But Price, whose professional career has been complemented by civic... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
bit about each one of them? Amy Jen Su: Leader A and leader B was a heuristic that I created to try to describe what people were describing to me out in the trenches. Leader A is the part of all of ourselves—it's like a mode we have when we're our best self, we don't... View Details
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
process has a number of built-in, even cultural, aspects that resist change," Fox writes. "These include an irregular and erratic flow of weapons systems appropriations; the very nature of cutting-edge, highly risky research and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
drink is killing him or a CEO who lets the company go bankrupt instead of changing business tactics, most humans consistently resist listening to feedback about their mistakes. "There's nothing nonrational about making mistakes," said... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- Web
Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
realize the different ways in which data can be easily manipulated.” Brandeis Marshall Read the Transcript We know our socialization and education impact how we curate and interpret information, so any cognitive resistance that some may... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows
and CEO of KiraGen Bio, a biotech company that utilizes machine learning-driven multiplex gene editing to engineer CAR-T cells that can resist the immunosuppressive effects of solid tumor microenvironments. With extensive experience in... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
use gatekeepers to impose stringent controls on care—were resisted by patients and physicians. In response, the managed care organizations began relaxing their controls, allowing patients more freedom to see specialists and out-of-network... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
office. An executive search professional refuses the headaches associated with leading a practice area. Information technology consultants resist management assignments, for fear they'll become "administrators." Aggressive... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 22 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club
qualifications, technical skills, and networks required for the job. I thought to myself, “if students at Harvard Business School - one of the leading feeders for venture capital/private equity roles in the world - are facing this level of View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
sensors, like smart watches, and telemedicine, which is a companion to these sensors. Both have become more powerful and more acceptable to consumers and to the health care industry, which has resisted these innovations for a long time. I... View Details
Keywords: April White