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06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

generations of oil." David Hirsch seconds this notion, saying, "There is nothing our technology (including revisiting our ‘revulsion toward nuclear power') cannot achieve." There is a great deal of support as well for the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

greatest crisis since the Revolutionary War. The Democratic Party was so bitterly divided that it had been unable to even choose a candidate at its own convention, so the man the Republicans selected would almost certainly become president and face the Herculean task... View Details

05 Aug 2002
What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

developed and manage so-called "platforms" on which many innovations created by many entrepreneurs can be based. By successfully facing issues such as scope (the degree to which a "platform leader" creates and develops product complements View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Jan 2017
News

HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban

concerned that our executive programs — which comprise two-thirds international participants — could see declines in enrollment. Whatever the intention of the order, its implementation has led to disruption and fear, and it undercuts the... View Details

17 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program

Kristina Wang (MBA 2020) is an MBA student at HBS who just completed her first year and is currently interning at Denali Therapeutics before her second year. I did not expect myself to become interested in biotechnology. Growing up in... View Details

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01 Feb 1998
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

are committed to making progress both in working sessions and between meetings. Here is a status report on each committee. Global Alumni Issues This committee is looking at the results of a survey of international alumni, trying to... View Details

11 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

eight major North American and European financial services companies as well as an international internet survey in collaboration with journals and organizations. The present paper gives an overview of the initial findings of 61... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

performance—and the issues about how top executives seem to be getting a different kind of deal than employees get, there is a fundamental cynicism about the free enterprise system. The closed CEO labor market and the consequences it has... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

Working PapersMarket Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in Europe Authors:Christopher S. Armstrong, Mary E. Barth, Alan D. Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Abstract This study examines the European stock market reaction to sixteen events associated with the adoption of... View Details

12 Feb 2016
Op-Ed

The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills

With a final deal reached on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), prepare for another cacophony of protest in Congress that America is signing away jobs to other parts of the world. The naysayers will be overlooking one small fact. Even... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Fuller and Matt Sigelman; Manufacturing; Electronics

06 Dec 2011
Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

For the past 18 months, European policymakers have been trying to deal with a crisis that represents the biggest challenge to the European integration project since its creation after World War II. The very symbol of it, the euro, is... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

01 Mar 2013
News

A United Front

comments. "All those experiences and interactions proved invaluable to understanding Sir Alex's day-to-day approach." That daily approach includes a keen sense of how to motivate his international cadre of players. "He seemingly knows... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Dec 2002
News

HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power

Cochairs Herman Bulls (MBA '85) and Ken Bacon (MBA '82) worked closely with Honorary Chair Dennis Hightower (MBA '74) and a program committee led by Jacqueline Adams (MBA '78) and Dayna Wilkinson (MBA '81) to present sessions on domestic and View Details

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy

pardonable hyperbole of the guidebook, into a "stupendous, gigantic, super-magnificent ... greatest show on earth." Time magazine called it "the biggest, costliest, most ambitious undertaking ever attempted in the history of View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

17 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

CEOs have never had so many ways to communicate with their employees. But despite the availability of Slack, internal newsletters, and virtual town hall meetings, organizations can still go quiet. One of the most common culprits: Major... View Details

Keywords: by Ami Albernaz

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

In a new book, Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts, Harvard Business School professor Michael Watkins dissects the art of give-and-take. This excerpt... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

22 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

dominant means of communication within companies. Our particular interest is in how organizations coordinate across their many internal divisions (e.g., functions, business units, geographic offices, pay grades, job ranks). Studying... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

16 May 2017
News

Facing the Board

are not opposed to international expansion if that’s where the wealth is,” Blank said, “but this deal gives us concerns and we may be blinded by the good price.” “I think you’ve made a really clear case,”... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photos by Susan Young; Blackrock; The Boardroom

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

managing director for The Israel International Fund. "This is a private equity fund that I founded with two major banks. We are dedicated to the globalization of technologically competitive Israeli companies," Devash explains. "The HBS... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

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