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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
produce cheaper and better-quality cars than Detroit, and insisted that American consumers would buy small cars. Implementing that heretical idea, McNamara successfully introduced the compact Ford Falcon and even planned to produce a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
help consumers and make markets more efficient. Yet, the effectiveness of disclosure policies can be undermined if firms strategically make unfavorable information unnecessarily complicated to understand. To explore the incentives for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
new fintech entrepreneurs, and banks—small and large—vying for a position. Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream grapples with the broad significance of small business to the economy, the historical role of credit markets, the dynamics of innovation cycles,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
HR&A Advisors, he crafted policies promoting housing development and economic growth for historically underinvested neighborhoods. Danno said, “HBS provides the opportunity to turn my vision for community-driven urban development into... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
concerned that our executive programs — which comprise two-thirds international participants — could see declines in enrollment. Whatever the intention of the order, its implementation has led to disruption and fear, and it undercuts the... View Details
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
reversal of the state's policy towards private business from late 1978, and has grown rapidly since. While insurance as a concept and product has been a big success in post-reform China, the growth of the industry has created strong... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
networks of personal relationships: 1) Change agents who were central in the organization's informal network had a clear advantage, regardless of their position in the formal hierarchy. 2) People who bridged disconnected groups or individuals were more effective at... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
of rapid profit improvement. The question facing CEO Thomas J. Wilson was how to maintain the momentum. This case tracks the evolution of Allstate's strategy over 20 years, examining the logic behind the strategic changes, and the challenges of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
Publications Managed Globalization: Doctrine, Practice, and Promise Authors: Rawi Abdelal and Sophie Meunier Publication: Journal of European Public Policy 17, no. 3 (April 2010): 349-366 Abstract Two alternate visions for shaping and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
reports. The paper, authored by Julia Adler-Milstein, an HBS doctoral candidate in the Health Policy Management program; Sara J. Singer, assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School; and HBS... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
best people you can find and then let them do their job." CURRENT READING Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age, by Christopher T. Cross As head of Hazleton, which he turned into the largest independent contract laboratory in... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
details on the unfolding of the pandemic and the policies implemented to manage the outbreak in 19 European countries and the EU. The center also co-authored a library case study, “COVID-19: Tracing the... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
This article examines how the teaching of a course concerned with the development and implementation of the goals and policies of a firm changed during three periods in the postwar period: first, with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
implementation of an innovative, but ultimately unsuccessful strategy. Quarterly strategic reviews, based in part on the firm's balanced scorecard, led executives at Store24 to identify problems with, and eventually abandon, this strategy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
time. Build reports for their various stakeholders (employees, shareholders, lenders, regulators) to enable them to communicate effectively and objectively on their ESG progress. Gain access to a manager’s toolkit that provides resources and guidance on ESG View Details
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
of Monetary Policy By: Du, Wenxin, Carolin E. Pflueger, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—Nominal debt provides consumption-smoothing benefits if it can be inflated away during recessions. However, we document empirically that countries with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
lending data from a financial services organization that implemented a highly decentralized business model. I exploit variation in this organization in whether or not employees are selected via channels that are likely to sort on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
investigate the impact of this practice on consumer welfare. To investigate, we implement a randomized controlled trial in which we vary the search results that subjects are shown—comparing Google's current View Details
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
status-quo defenders and supporters when implementing change in the workplace. Instead, supporters must be allowed what Kellogg calls "relational spaces"—places to discuss issues and concerns they may not feel comfortable... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
member, its economic boom and subsequent bust in 2008, and its policy response. After implementing significant economic and political reforms in order to qualify for EU membership in 2004, Latvia had turned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne