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- June 11, 2014
- Article
Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite
By: Boris Groysberg
What skills do companies prize in C-level executives? To answer these questions, we surveyed 32 senior search consultants at a top global executive-placement firm. Experienced search consultants typically interview hundreds and even thousands of senior executives; they... View Details
Groysberg, Boris. "Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (June 11, 2014).
- January 2000 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Security Capital Pacific Trust: A Case for Branding
A real estate operations and investment trust is considering whether it should pursue branding as a strategic investment. Through interpretation of case data and video from focus groups, students deduce the consumer (cognitive, psychological, and economic),... View Details
Fournier, Susan M., and Sarah S. Khetani. "Security Capital Pacific Trust: A Case for Branding." Harvard Business School Case 500-053, January 2000. (Revised October 2001.)
- 16 Mar 2013
- News
The role of government: Let 50 flowers bloom
- 2020
- Working Paper
Anchors Aweigh: Analysis of Anchor Limited Partner Investors in Impact Investment Funds
By: Shawn A. Cole, T. Robert Zochowski, Fanele Mashwama and Heather McPherson
This note describes results from a survey of “anchor investors” in impact funds. Anchor investors
are described as “generally the first investor to make a substantial capital commitment to a fund,”
(according to the Global Impact Investing Network, “GIIN”) and their... View Details
- 1989
- Book
Planning and Power in Iran: Ebtehaj and Economic Development under the Shah
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book provides a biography of Abol Hassan Ebtehaj, who headed Iran's central bank and Plan Organization during the 1940s and 1950s. It provides a wide-ranging survey of the problems of modernization and economic planning in Iran. Ebtehaj was at the center of... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Making; Economics; Central Banking; Policy; Political History; Resignation and Termination; Biography; Books; Surveys; Growth and Development Strategy; Planning; Iran
Jones, Geoffrey. Planning and Power in Iran: Ebtehaj and Economic Development under the Shah. London: Frank Cass, 1989.
- 15 Nov 2012
- News
Companies want Congress to ‘just fix it’
- 27 Sep 2010
- News
Under Pressure, Teams Ignore Experts
- December 2002
- Article
Introduction to 'Valuation in Emerging Markets'
By: Robert Bruner, Robert Conroy, Javier Estrada, Mark Kritzman and Wei Li
The purpose of the Batten Institute/Association for Investment Management and Research/Emerging Markets Review conference was to examine the challenges of valuing assets in emerging markets. These challenges are immensely interesting to practitioners and scholars for... View Details
Bruner, Robert, Robert Conroy, Javier Estrada, Mark Kritzman, and Wei Li. "Introduction to 'Valuation in Emerging Markets'." Emerging Markets Review 3, no. 4 (December 2002): 310–324.
- July 2008 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
The Springfield Nor'easters: Maximizing Revenues in the Minor Leagues
By: Frank V. Cespedes, Christopher H. Lovelock and Laura Winig
The marketing director of a new minor-league baseball team must design, conduct, and then interpret survey research to determine optimal ticket pricing that will yield large attendance figures and contribute to the owner's goal of breaking even in the first year of... View Details
Keywords: Market Research; Quantitative Analysis; Consumer Marketing; Pricing Strategy; Price; Marketing Strategy; Mathematical Methods; Product Launch; Sports; Sports Industry; Massachusetts
Cespedes, Frank V., Christopher H. Lovelock, and Laura Winig. "The Springfield Nor'easters: Maximizing Revenues in the Minor Leagues." Harvard Business School Brief Case 082-510, July 2008. (Revised May 2009.)
- 20 Apr 2012
- News
What Space Shuttle Discovery has inspired in us
- 15 Aug 2012
- News
What I Learned From Swimming With My SmartPhone
- January 2001 (Revised May 2001)
- Case
Russia: The End of a Time of Troubles?
By: Rawi E. Abdelal
Describes Russia's troubled economic transition since 1991, highlights the problem of institutional development, and surveys the challenges President Vladimir Putin faced in 2000. The first section provides a brief synopsis of liberalization, stabilization, and... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Public Sector; Privatization; Economy; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Russia
Abdelal, Rawi E. "Russia: The End of a Time of Troubles?" Harvard Business School Case 701-076, January 2001. (Revised May 2001.)
- June 1996
- Case
Siemens Corporation (B): Corporate Advertising for 1996
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
Describes the television advertising and presents examples of the comparable print ads, then documents new measurement tools and presents the results of key surveys that address audience awareness. Also includes other relevant activities to support Siemens USA's... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Learning; Balanced Scorecard; Operations; Outcome or Result; Advertising Industry
Greyser, Stephen A., and Norman Klein. "Siemens Corporation (B): Corporate Advertising for 1996." Harvard Business School Case 596-106, June 1996.
- 14 Jun 2013
- News
Wheelies: The Ask and You Shall Receive Edition
Jon M. Jachimowicz
Jon M. Jachimowicz is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the Required Curriculum. He studies... View Details
- 2025
- Working Paper
Better Keep the Twenty Dollars: Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source
By: Annamaria Conti, Vansh Gupta, Jorge Guzman and Maria P. Roche
Open source is key to innovation yet is assumed to be done largely through intrinsic motivation. How can we incentivize it? In this paper, we examine the impact of a program providing monetary incentives to motivate innovators to contribute to open source. The Sponsors... View Details
Keywords: Open Source; Innovation; Incentives; Financial Rewards; Crowding Out; Open Source Distribution; Innovation and Invention; Motivation and Incentives; Technology Industry
Conti, Annamaria, Vansh Gupta, Jorge Guzman, and Maria P. Roche. "Better Keep the Twenty Dollars: Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-014, September 2023. (Revised January 2025. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 31668, September 2023)
- 13 Jul 2019
- News
How Do The Very Wealthy Choose To Spend Their Time?
- 2022
- Working Paper
Between Human Dignity and Security: Identifying Citizen and Elite Preferences and Concerns over Refugee Reception
By: Kristin Fabbe, Eleni Kyrkopoulou and Mara Vidali
Under what conditions do citizens and elites support the creation of migrant and refugee hosting facilities in their area, and what types of facilities do they prefer? What types of concerns underlay these preferences and how do they differ by ideology and elite... View Details
Fabbe, Kristin, Eleni Kyrkopoulou, and Mara Vidali. "Between Human Dignity and Security: Identifying Citizen and Elite Preferences and Concerns over Refugee Reception." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-026, November 2022.