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- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
unprecedented to have a large cohort of people all over the world start working remotely at the same moment. The only parallel I can think of is from World War II, when waves of women entered heavy manufacturing for the first time. This... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- June 2022
- Case
Mossadeq’s Gambit: The US, UK, and Iranian Oil Nationalization
By: Jeremy Friedman and Jingyu Liu
Many of the West’s political problems in the Middle East and in Iran in particular can be traced to the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh by military forces supported by the American CIA and the British MI6 in August 1953. Mossadegh, at the head of a... View Details
Keywords: Neo-imperialism; History; Conflict Management; War; Globalized Economies and Regions; Natural Resources; National Security; Government and Politics; Globalized Markets and Industries; Middle East; Iran
Friedman, Jeremy, and Jingyu Liu. "Mossadeq’s Gambit: The US, UK, and Iranian Oil Nationalization." Harvard Business School Case 722-065, June 2022.
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Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies
By: Tatiana Sandino
Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
hospital systems in New York, Chicago, and Boston pledged to confront inequities in hiring, leadership, and patient care. ‘Embedded in the fabric of this country’ Growing up in India, Chandra says, he absorbed a rosy idea of the United States—its victories in the... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
resulting void at the center of the business school curriculum eventually caused business educators to take a second look at the discipline of economics. Economics, in the decades prior to World War II, had occupied a relatively weak... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
power compliment, where you don't even think they are working in their national interest. That doesn't mean if push came to shove, they would win a military battle, but the best kind of war is one you don't have to fight." Less... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
make up for crimes by the Nazis, and South Africa paid Black victims of apartheid. In the United States, the federal government provided payments in the 1990s to Japanese civilians interred in camps during World War II. In 1994, the state... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage
recognized, and cultivate enduring connections,” they write, “then we can together make extraordinary progress toward making our system one in which it could be worth living—and one that people would believe is worth preserving.” You Might Also Like: View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
This opinion piece, first published in the New York Times in August 2005, has been updated by Pankaj Ghemawat for HBS Working Knowledge.Mighty Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, must feel less like a hotbed of retailing and more like a View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
change—business leaders have entered a new era requiring new ways of leading. Traditional management methods seem no longer sufficient to address the volume of change we are seeing. I label this VUCA 2.0. In a 1998 report designed to train officers for the twenty-first... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
the counter on a per-order basis, after conferring with customers individually. Some grocers did experiment with self-service meat marketing in the 1930s, but soon gave up due to refrigeration and packaging challenges. Not until after World View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
pattern that commonly arises when nations are confronted with a crisis, say the researchers. After World War II, discrimination against Japanese-Americans drove many Japanese to Americanize their children’s names. And after the September... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage
In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
The business system that emerged in Japan after World War II, influenced by the American occupation forces’ breakup of the zaibatsu, featured extensive cross-shareholdings, heavy bank influence, lifetime employment and close-coordination... View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
Recent humanitarian crises—the Asian tsunami, conflicts in Afghanistan, and the war in Iraq—are high-profile opportunities for NGOs. Is this a time to capitalize on strengths, or just to pitch in and be seen? What pitfalls do these... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
If Google is forced to exit China, will it be a blow financially? A: I don't think so, although they were looking to make progress in China with other lines of business, such as the Android mobile phone platform. Q: Do you think Google has at least won the PR View Details
- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
"We still have no assigned membership to specific teams over time. I think it speaks to the subtle interpersonal challenges we face trying to catch and work with relative strangers, and that even those small moments of hesitation or miscommunication matter."... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
Westinghouse, and AT&T), and Telefunken (a joint venture of the two European leaders, Siemens and AEG). After World War II knocked out Telefunken, RCA took the lead in commercializing television worldwide. It was then solely... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
some argue that the process could actually shift into reverse, toward even greater economic isolation, if the experience between the two World Wars is any precedent. Whatever the ultimate direction, though, the differences that make... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
to move into palm oil—a much more capital intensive crop to process, with higher barriers to entry for small farmers. Geopolitical forces also played a part in the palm oil industry’s development, Giacomin says. After World War II,... View Details