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- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
Professor Tedlow, that RCA is now "merely a brand name and not a terribly important one." IBM, however, has survived numerous challenges and is still, according to Professor Chandler, "the most important computer company in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
malapropism as saying, "take it." More than a funny Yogi-ism, the words suggest a fundamental truth for companies wanting not only to survive times of disruption, change, and surprise, but lead through it, Kanter suggests.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
strong selection effect: R&D resources (skilled labor) are inefficiently used by low-type incumbent firms. Subsidies to incumbents encourage the survival and expansion of these firms at the expense of potential high-type entrants. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
collective wisdom for accounting Ph.D. students who will be entering the academic job market. It is divided into two sections. The first offers subjective advice on the dissertation process—from choosing a topic to surviving the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
limited-liability firms in China, using the example of the Dasheng cotton mills in Nantong near Shanghai. Dasheng, one of the earliest and most successful industrial enterprises in pre-war China, was founded by the famous entrepreneur Zhang Jian (1853-1926). Having... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
from development banks and grants of foreign aid. WDC projects would not run on charity, however; indeed, they would not survive if they did. Instead, the projects should eventually return profits to participating affiliates, their... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
auditors and audit committees whose mutual survival depends on each other, overly complicated accounting and tax systems, and the nature of the reporting relationships between internal auditors and those responsible for the integrity of... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
earn profits in the future. Conversely, other stakeholders need to understand that companies need to make a profit in order to survive and grow. Failure to do so means that eventually they will not be able to fulfill the needs of other... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
years ago. They claim that no company, whether "visionary" or not, can outperform the market for more than ten to fifteen years, and that the companies "built to last" may have survived but have not outperformed the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
survival is at risk. In business there is failure all the time. Our colleague Dorothy Leonard Barton developed the phrase “failing forward” to describe how innovative firms always take risks but learn from their failures. The trick as our... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
Hamilton and Gallatin were orphaned at an early age? A: If you can survive what they survived, then you can survive just about anything. Gallatin's parents died when he was young—his father when he was 4... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how the entry rate, the distribution of entry sizes, and survival rates for firms responded to changes in banking competition. We also distinguish the relative effect of the policy reforms on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
Medicare Advantage program, the public option would harness Medicare’s pricing advantages while ensuring a competitive marketplace for benefits. Can the somnolent private insurers that cover close to 200 million people survive this... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
In June, Professor Joe Bower (with fellow HBS professors Dutch Leonard, David Moss, and Lynn Paine) led an HBS faculty colloquium on "The Future of Market Capitalism." The HBS Alumni Bulletin spoke with Bower shortly after the event. It View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
finance, and law to evaluate the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. We describe significant developments in how the Act was implemented and find that despite severe criticism, the Act and institutions it created have survived almost intact... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
question in a new paper, titled Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints (forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics). “Firms rely on banks a lot in order to... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
Michael Tushman Periodical:Research in Organizational Behavior (forthcoming). (Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-088, 2007) Abstract How do organizations survive in the face of change? Underlying this question is a rich debate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Wheat Pool 2005 Harvard Business School Case 906-402 CEO Mayo Schmidt had just guided his firm through five difficult years. Survival had come with the difficult decision to change the 80-year-old agricultural cooperative into a Canadian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
this way: "When the world is full of surprises bosses can hardly control drastic actions to keep surviving and that means employees will get their share of surprises However a good leader will always communicate all possible outcomes... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett