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  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

another way. You might, in a moment of weakness, depict your situation in a particularly favorable light to your prospective lender and make yourself look worse off to the IRS. Indeed, you might end up with two completely different... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 11 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

"People can actually build up their compassion 'muscle' and respond to others' suffering with care and a desire to help," he said. Great leaders attest that it is not a sign of weakness or relinquishing authority to be consistently kind... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

real actions to boost earnings to meet different types of earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam?R=1057-HBK-ENG&conversationId=262835&E=1462 Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd Author:Youngme Moon Publication:Crown Business/Random House, 2010 Abstract Every few years... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

and field hospitals). In 13 years it developed from a start-up garage business into a successful firm of global reach and reputation. In 2010 its founder and CEO Philippe Prévost must decide the product and market strategy for the next... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jun 2012
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Leadership: What We Know

Leadership: Advancing the Field By Scott A. Snook, Nitin Nohria, and Rakesh Khurana It has been more than twenty-five years since a handful of intrepid associates in West Point's Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership published... View Details
Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education
  • 30 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 30

This successful electronic medical record (EMR) company had grown thanks to its reliable software and responsive customer service. The company had achieved this growth without the help of any outside financing. The five co-founders of eCW, who treated each other like... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

co-founder and CEO of the Rise Fund, has partnered with The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consultancy, to develop an evidence-based methodology for quantifying the impact of prospective Rise investments. Together, they have come up with a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

Mature Field: Swiss Watchmaking, 1970-2008 By: Raffaelli, Ryan Abstract—I examine the processes and mechanisms whereby market demand for a "dying" technology re-emerges at a later date. In 1983, fourteen years after the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

better understanding the role of Organization Studies in this academic community, we first present the key characteristics of North American academia. Second, relying on archival data spanning the first 29 years of Organization Studies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Mead Treadwell

the Arctic. There are multibillion-dollar mineral reserves — copper, zinc, gold, diamonds, lead — as well. Most people don’t know that FedEx and UPS have very large hubs in Alaska and that most of the world’s international air cargo now... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Transportation
  • 13 Feb 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53941 forthcoming Harvard International Review Henry Kissinger and Robert Mugabe: The Forgotten Connection via a Remarkably Creative Negotiation By: Sebenius, James K. Abstract—When Robert Mugabe was forced out of office... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 26

different sources (e.g., food versus fire safety). Up Close and Personal: Developing Foundations for Leader Development through Personalization of Management Learning Authors:Gianpiero Petriglieri, Jack Wood, and Jennifer L. Petriglieri... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

the merchandise layout, and especially, talking with and touching potential consumers. "I'd make up every woman who stopped to look," Lauder remembered. "I would show her that a three-minute makeup could change her... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

Immelt: The Voyage from MBA to CEO Harvard Business School Case 307-056 GE believes its ability to develop management talent is a core competency that represents a source of sustainable competitive advantage. Traces the development of a 25-year-old MBA named Jeff... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

http://hbr.org/2011/07/column-evolve-again/ar/1 The Paradox of Samsung's Rise Authors:Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2011) Abstract Twenty years ago, few people... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

Start-up's Midlife Crisis: 99Sushe.com Harvard Business School Case 309-060 Now into their third year at the helm of an Internet start-up in China, Ken Pao and Bill Li were managing a totally different company (with a new name) from the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

Business School Case 909-403 Transformation of COFCO in a Changing Environment China's COFCO, the country's leading edible oil and food importer and exporter and its largest food manufacturer, had in its 50-plus years of operation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

policy. “You have to acknowledge that [Gleason] was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating” “I thought, who is this plucky woman amongst men?” Sawyer recalls after seeing Gleason’s name and image pop View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services
  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

money demand could explain up to approximately half the growth of ABCP in the mid-2000s. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/money_20140929_6871f5d1-2375-4716-a7c5-8b94d7541b54.pdf   Working Papers Government... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne