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- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
disease threat materializes. For example, hospitals are the first line of defense in an outbreak. Yet the number of patients that our hospitals can manage with extreme cases is extraordinarily low. We have only four bio containment units... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
economic systems in ways that could well present unknowable threats to many of us. The threats are not certain. The victims are not known. But a fire is burning, and the smoke is swirling. The EIA/IEA... View Details
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
entrepreneurs are innovating products to attract the emerging middle class. Such innovations could potentially benefit consumers living in mature markets. How Important Are Relations With The Host Country? HBS Cases: Looking Behind Google's Stand in China Google's... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate
not foresee how nationalisms—which Levitt saw as a threat to globalization—could transform themselves and actually embrace global capitalism, as occurred in the former Soviet Union. But Levitt was dead-on in his view on the malleability... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
proposal that "a non-Big Four auditor should be retained to [perform tasks such as] ... due diligence." Until these kinds of things happen, C.J. Cullinane believes that the "deterrent of getting caught is the biggest threat... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?
personal levels—needed to achieve the "peace of mind" with which we did business on September 10? How will they and other changes affect business and consumer costs and, at a more basic level, the global economy? And what can we learn from those who have been... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
likely contributed to the great recession by inflating the housing and credit bubbles in 2005-2007. But when it comes to sovereign risk, they are getting it right. Across the world, there are many serious threats to the long-term ability... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
interconnected global community. So disease threats such as COVID-19 need to be recognized as part of the current work-scape and systematically addressed,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor of Business Administration Ashley... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jun 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome
not a serious daily threat for them. But then we’d hear, “I’m not going to be killed, but I could be fired by my board of directors.” Q: Give an example from the course of how you compare and contrast contemporary and ancient texts. Frei:... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
are willing to face the challenges common to post-liquidity business families that can pose threats to unity of the family and the owners. Enterprising Families Build Value Through Liquidity Transitions The attitudes of enterprising... View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
new product, a firm may decide to preannounce untruthfully in order to deter competitors. We examine an incumbent's preannouncement strategy when there is uncertainty regarding the commercial viability of a new product opportunity and a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
wider political implications that concern me most. Brexit will put a real border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, for example, and that will pose a threat to reverse the (finally) peaceful relationship between the two... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
threats and asks students to choose one after they analyzed the company's strategy. The analysis begins with the understanding of value proposition, as derived from failures of substitutes. It proceeds to examine industry structure and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
of many managers facing similar threats. In the case of Firestone, Sull writes, it just dug itself into an even deeper hole. Its reaction did not make the company better able to fend off the threat of radial technology; quite the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
vertical portals have a profound effect on traditional distribution networks, but because many vertical portals will have production capabilities, they may also pose a threat to specialty producers that choose to downplay the significance... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
that they posed a threat to the nation state. Yet as historians, economists and other scholars have discovered that globalization has a long history, so the role of business enterprises has tended to be written out of the script. The... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
Threat: Responses to and the Consequences of Threats to Individuals' Identities Authors:Jennifer L. Petriglieri Publication:The Academy of Management Review (forthcoming) Abstract I review and reconceptualize identity threat, defining it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
one of the three most important issues facing managers and directors in 2006. He commented that, "Activist shareholders, led by hedge funds which today have aggregate assets of more than one trillion dollars and armed with the threat... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
on those earnings, targeting behavior is muted and no longer generates a negative effort response to higher wages. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53905 in press Games and Economic Behavior Games of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne