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- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
Anita Elberse, a Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, studies high performers in creative industries—from basketball superstar LeBron James to pop diva Lady Gaga, from actor Tom Cruise to... View Details
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
Here are the 20 most popular stories from 2007. How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater? Summing up the many responses, Jim Heskett says that the mix of control, delegation, and theater employed View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
What do leaders do to make employees in creative functions feel supported or not? That was one of the research questions posed by Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and colleagues in what has turned into a penetrating study... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2010
- News
Democrats' failed bid to curb outsourcing had some crucial flaws
- 22 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
What’s Behind the Private Equity Boom?
Podcast with: Josh Lerner Interviewer: James Aisner Running Time: 15 min., 56 sec. View Details
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
says. Sundance Institute. Founder Robert Redford's contribution in legitimizing indie films is akin to what James Beard did for American food. Sundance made indies and the different stories depicted in the genre more acceptable View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
one surprising finding from recent research done by HBS professor Amy Edmondson and her colleague, Professor James Detert from Penn State. Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism A values-driven organization... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2019
- Book
These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway
disruption, but Gary Pisano says there are ways to stay ahead of the innovation curve. Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level James Sebenius explains the art of Henry Kissinger’s dealmaking. Problem... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal
Podcast with: Bharat Anand Interviewer: James Aisner Running Time: 17 min., 15 sec. Directors of Dow Jones & Co. this week accepted Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion, $60-per-share bid for the company and the jewel in the crown, the Wall... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
their leisure and consumption. Most recently this idea was popularized by Susan Faludi in her book Stiffed as well as by Robert Bly in Iron John. When you enter the everyday life of American men, you don't... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 21 Aug 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study
case were being written by a recognized school of business, we would learn something from the exercise. "We couldn't let the opportunity go by." The Birth Of A Case From a researcher's point of view, according to Professor View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
the complexities of case writing throughout the region. Conversations also focused on work that the new Center can foster between, and among, Latin American academics and HBS faculty. (The conference in Buenos Aires was preceded by a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
With its abundance of complex management issues in a rapidly changing environment, Latin America offers a rich landscape for in-depth academic investigation. Some of the research work currently underway by HBS faculty is already earmarked... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
chapters how entrepreneurs both inside and outside of government can tackle problems by viewing them as opportunities, trying new ideas, scaling them up, and improving public life. “I’m not saying we should take all the behaviors of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
HBS Working Knowledge recently celebrated its tenth birthday, and we mark the occasion by looking back and looking forward. We've asked HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and a number of faculty to both remark on what they view as the most significant... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
and James R. Hines Jr. to exploit the unique opportunity provided by confidential, government-collected data on U.S. multinationals. This source effectively provides income statements and balance sheets for... View Details
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
Podcast with: Joseph Bower Interviewer: James Aisner Running Time: 8 min., 23 sec. In early September, Ford Motor Company announced that Bill Ford would be replaced as CEO by Boeing's Alan Mulally, credited... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
learn more, see The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions by John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Katherine L. Milkman. If you have resolved to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
like to think of themselves as truly indispensable—impact makers, history movers, culture changers—few reach the bar set by Steve Jobs, Napoleon, or Martin Luther King Jr., Mukunda says. (Even some people you might think would be shoo-ins... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
this a scam?' For us, the most important thing we've done is build trust with the community," said James DeJulio, co-founder and chief product officer of Tongal. "Our marketing strategy was to pay people as fast as we possibly could. If... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman