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  • 12 Mar 2020
  • Video

Muhammad Alagil

Muhammed Alagil, Chairman of Jarir Investment in Saudi Arabia, discusses the diversification of his firm as it expanded from books to electronics, imported goods from China, and translated hundreds if books... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

Summing Up Among responses to this month's column, there was little disagreement with the premise that attitude trumps skills in the selection of new employees. C. J. Cullinane commented: "Attitude is all! I have worked with a group of Cuban refugees in Newark who... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
  • 2009
  • Book

Financial Economics

By: Zvi Bodie, Robert C. Merton and David L. Cleeton
This book seeks to explain finance through its functions rather than its institutions, concentrating on the three pillars of finance: optimization over time, asset valuation, and risk management. View Details
Keywords: Economics; Finance; Assets; Risk Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Valuation
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  • 2012
  • Book

The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force That Transforms Performance

By: James Heskett
The contribution of culture to organizational performance is both substantial and quantifiable. This book presents the results of field research that demonstrates how an effective culture can account for up to half of the differential in performance between... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Learning; Framework; Policy; Retention; Books; Analytics and Data Science; Innovation and Invention; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Performance Expectations; Research
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  • April 2019
  • Case

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement (Abridged)

By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris
In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ’86) who worked in finance, were planning for their next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues.... View Details
Keywords: Social Movement; Gender Equality; Writing; Social Issues; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Books; Change; Leadership
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    Negotiating the Impossible

    An ideal read for your most difficult negotiations, disputes & relationships.
    Awards:
    "Outstanding Book Award" (International Association for Conflict... View Details

      Richard S. Tedlow

      Richard S. Tedlow is the Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he is a specialist in the history of business.

      Professor Tedlow received his B.A. from Yale in 1969 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from... View Details

      Keywords: advertising; computer; marketing industry; retailing; semiconductor; tire
      • 21 May 2024
      • Cold Call Podcast

      The Importance of Trust for Managing through a Crisis

      Keywords: Re: Sandra J. Sucher; Tourism
      • April 2001
      • Teaching Note

      PlanetAll TN

      By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Steven Silverman and William A. Sahlman
      Teaching Note for (9-898-105). For book only. View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Business Model; Web Services Industry
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      • 09 May 2016
      • News

      ‘Big Teaming,’ Audacious Innovation, and the Uncompleted Dream of a Smart City

      • 01 Aug 2012
      • News

      Nothing gets done in August (and that's OK)

      • August 1996 (Revised January 1998)
      • Teaching Note

      Rolls-Royce and the Rise of High-Technology Industry TN

      Teaching Note for (1-796-171)--(For Book Only). View Details
      Keywords: Technology; Auto Industry
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      • August 1996 (Revised January 1998)
      • Teaching Note

      British Capitalism and the Three Industrial Revolutions TN

      Teaching Note for (1-796-182)--(For Book Only). View Details
      Keywords: History; Economic Systems; United Kingdom
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      • 2022
      • Book

      Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies

      By: Ranjay Gulati
      This book offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms manage to get purpose right. Few business topics have aroused more skepticism in recent... View Details
      Keywords: Purpose; Business And Society; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Performance Effectiveness; Organizational Culture
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        Das Narayandas

        Das Narayandas is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His academic credentials include a Bachelor of Technology degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), a Post-Graduate... View Details

        Keywords: advertising; beauty products; biotechnology; computer; electrical equipment; electronics; entertainment; federal government; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; internet; management consulting; manufacturing; marketing industry; professional services; retailing; telecommunications; transportation

          Tom Nicholas

          Tom Nicholas is William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is British and holds a doctorate from Oxford University. His research focuses on the history of entrepreneurship, innovation and finance. His book (VC: An... View Details

          Keywords: financial services; high technology
          • 07 May 2007
          • Research & Ideas

          Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

          works ever since. But the main reason I wrote this book is the tremendous resonance his ideas have had with my HBS students and with businesspeople. I think Schumpeter is the most penetrating analyst of capitalism who ever lived. He saw... View Details
          Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education
          • Research Summary

          Personal Productivity

          He is working on a short book advising professionals on how to increase their productivity -- the quality and quantity of their output, as opposed to their hours.  The book grows out of an article he published on the subject in the Harvard Business Review

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            Caroline M. Elkins

            Caroline Elkins is the Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government and International Economy unit at HBS. She is also Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, an... View Details

            • 01 Oct 2018
            • Book

            Is the US Losing its Ability to Attract Highly Skilled Migrant Workers?

            Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage; Service