Western United States - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

need to get shareholders more engaged? What shape should the separation of management and ownership take in the twenty-first century?” “We are now in a situation where index investors are the major shareholders in most of the large- and medium-sized public companies in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

investment enabled Xerox to participate substantially in the resultant value. As Kearns stated in 1993, "XTV is a hedge against the repeated missteps of the past." 40 Armed with this new structure and the charter to hunt for... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

16 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

Physicists tell us entropy is the natural state of the world, and that law seems especially true in today's multidivisional company. "When you create organizational subunits of any form, they'll have a tendency to focus internally on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 May 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?

motives, our paradigms, and what we are willing to accept and ignore to get what we think that we need." C. J. Cullinane was concerned that "This trend (service sector relative growth) will indeed catch up with the United View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

the bursting of the dot.com bubble, Yoffie asked, will the future be much less rosy? An often-used comparison with the tulip mania that overwhelmed Holland in the seventeenth century, he asserted, is not the right way to think about the Internet fever that began... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

18 Aug 2015
News

New HBS Fund Chairs

numerous leadership positions including launching the firm’s European Leveraged Finance unit in 1997 and leading it for three years. He has held his current position, head of Global Private Equity, since 2007. The couple is eager to help... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee

enjoying incredible coffee in the cafés of Milan, I came back to the United States and began looking around, trying to figure out what I was going to drink,” he says. “And a friend of mine told me about... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 1996
News

New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting

also provides students with two additional weeks to pursue off-campus opportunities throughout the United States and abroad." MBA Career Services continues to work with students and companies to enhance... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Alumni Books

Greatness by Mitt Romney (MBA ’74/JD ’75) (St. Martin’s Press) Romney asserts that America’s strength is essential for its own well-being and the world’s, but its national advantages have eroded. The United View Details

18 Mar 2020
News

Leading Change

of Business Administration at HBS, and Karim Lakhani, Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who gave a talk entitled, Competing in the Age of AI. Iansiti is head of the HBS Technology and Operations Management (TOM) View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

New News

United States. Our goal is to make fact-first news extremely easy to consume, by publishing a daily digest that covers the day’s most important stories stated factually, with any relevant context. BA: Media... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneuship; digital media; startups; news; business models; young alumni; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

26 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

Encouraging Employees To Receive Flu Shots The CDC estimates that from the 1976-1977 season to the 2006-2007 flu season, annual flu-associated deaths in the United States ranged from a low of about 3,000 to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

27 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

engine would begin providing AI summaries of most search queries to users across the United States; Users immediately noted that the AI summaries sometimes included nonsense results. “If it’s allowing a small vendor to get their products... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology

01 Jan 2002
News

Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)

chosen a leader from outside its ranks in its century-long history in the United States. Recruited from Becton Dickinson, a maker of medical devices, he was an outsider not only to Merck, but to "Big Pharma" as well. "Members of the... View Details

02 Oct 2008
What Do You Think?

Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

Summing Up The depth of the global financial crisis is becoming clearer day by day. In the United States, it is being used as a reason to set aside ideology regarding government ownership of important financial institutions, possibly... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Oct 2014
News

Chicago Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

began in Boston on April 26, 2014 and will extend around the world over the next 18 months as Dean Nohria and select faculty travel to alumni events across the United States, Canada, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Visit the alumni... View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign

21 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

investors lose. The idea has garnered much discussion in the United States since President Obama proposed spending up to $100 million on social impact bond pilot programs when announcing the 2012 budget in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

02 Apr 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

responsibility for poor performance and continue to get highly paid, it's no wonder there is widespread dissatisfaction." E. Shields stated that it may be the result of disappointed expectations: "People believe that their work... View Details