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- 01 Jun 2003
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Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes
products and activities that help them escape the daily pressures of families and careers, in order to become rebels for a day. But in a working paper titled “Man–of–Action Heroes: How the American Ideology of Manhood Structures Men’s... View Details
- 14 Oct 2010
- News
Jobs Bill Misses Mark
In an interview on the nationally syndicated morning news show The Takeaway, Lerner explained. “We all love small business, but if we really want to create new jobs, we’re turning over the wrong rock.” Citing a recent research paper by... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
technology is having on business practices. Drawing from papers presented at the 1995 HBS colloquium "Multimedia and the Boundaryless World," the 24 authors - many of whom are HBS faculty members - observe the effects new technologies are... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. In a 1997 working paper... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn
reason that these people are more constrained by bumpy labor markets than others. The paper has implications for founders and funders alike. Entrepreneurs, Roche says, need to be true to themselves if they’re launching because of a lack... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives
time the stock price dips, you've set up a situation where managers can never lose. What kind of incentive is that?" Meulbroek asks. In fact, the assumption that underwater options dramatically weaken managerial incentives may itself be invalid, according to a working... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
authentically adapt it to the local market,” says Prakash. “Building up our team, dealers, and manufacturing capabilities from a clean sheet of paper was really rewarding.” After India, Prakash served in the same role in Canada and is now... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
California, leading scholars in economics, psychology, statistics, and decision theory grapple with strategic uncertainty and the question of how to make wise choices. The 23 papers in this collection—which include those of HBS authors... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
development cycles and can't respond in mid-project to changing customer needs. But there's a solution to this dilemma, according to HBS assistant professor Stefan H. Thomke and Donald G. Reinertsen (MBA '79) of Reinertsen & Associates in California. In a working View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
diet and raised without antibiotics or hormones. There are no artificial colors and flavors. Almond or cashew milk is used in place of cream or butter. And instead of a tray, each dish is served in a paper pouch that emulates the French... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
action is a major goal? Porter: Most of us are here at Harvard Business School not solely to write papers for the academic literature but also to engage with practice and influence action. Our alumni bring enormous capacity and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
was one line low. And I said, this doesn't look right to me. So I called the boss, who was in the suburbs. And he said, oh my god, thank god you called. He rushed in. We had to redo the entire set of reports, which almost filled the room because View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
purpose can propel an organization’s accounting and stock market performance. According to a recent working paper coauthored by Associate Professor George Serafeim and Claudine Madras Gartenberg (MBA 2006, DBA 2011), the finding upends... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
creditors at the back of the line, meanwhile, lose out on the value that could have been produced had the company kept operating. A new working paper coauthored by Professor Stuart Gilson challenges that assertion. Gilson and his... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
downsizing at the Scott Paper Company under "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap and the merger of Chase Manhattan Bank with Chemical Bank. Based on interviews with CEOs, managers, investors, bankers, management consultants, and attorneys, the cases look... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
My Pandemic Year
community at HBS, and I’m also afraid of losing that feeling when I leave this place. Courtesy Jo Tan Courtesy Jo Tan Jo Tan (MBA 2021) is a self-taught illustrator, working mainly with watercolor and ink. She has a fear of forgetting and tries to put paint on View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
success to the support he received from his wife, who typed every paper he wrote. Now the proud grandparents of thirteen, the Haweses are active in the Mormon Church. Last year they created an endowment at Brigham Young University's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
take time to enjoy the journey, so I started classes at Drew University as an auditor. Of course, I couldn’t just sit there in class and not do the work. So I did all the reading, all the papers and tests. Finally, two of my professors... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
article. "The paper was looking to do a story on a business that had really struggled," explains Shafir, now seated in a spacious meeting room at Kettle Cuisine's soon-to-be-finished new plant. "They came to the right place!" Shafir liked... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
wicks biological fluids, such as blood or saliva, through treated paper to provide instant diagnostic results in parts of the developing world where lab facilities are nonexistent. In its first application, the View Details