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- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
Publications August 2013 Cengage Learning Principles of Management. 1st ed By: Gulati, Ranjay, Anthony J. Mayo, and Nitin Nohria Abstract—Prepare your students, as managers, to confront today's challenges and opportunities that are more... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
brands. However, retail then becomes a real estate play, as is true in Japanese department stores. Alvarez: This isn't something that would happen overnight but you could imagine it as people get more and... View Details
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
"In the case of McDonald's, for example, their primary customer is not the consumers who eat their food, but real estate developers. People haven't always thought hard about this issue. The implication... View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
privately financed project that will provide enough desalinated seawater to provide drinking water for 300,000 San Diegans. The propriety of having private companies provide a public good like water may be... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
and the organizational structures which have emerged." His suggestion for companies going forward: Think twice about the strategies and assumptions that are driving your industry. Universities, venture capitalists, View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
returns. During their first three years as public companies, firms backed by corporate venture funds show better stock price performance, on average, than companies backed by traditional VCs. Managing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
In a perfect world, scientists share problems and work together on solutions for the good of society. In the real world, however, that's usually not the case. The main obstacles: competition for publication... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
of her own goals. She could suggest to her boss, "Would it be better to have a high-profile male partner on this assignment?" because that would send a stronger signal to the company and public... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Publications April 2015 HarperBusiness Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs By: Yoffie, David B., and Michael A. Cusumano Abstract—The authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time (a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
companies feared that the precedent set by the South African move would undermine their control over valuable intellectual property in the developing world. But the suit sparked international outrage against the industry, prompting a very... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
can induce ethical behavior in their employees. For example, another series of experiments showed that moving the signature line from the end to the beginning of a self-reported form leads to an increase in truthfulness in the answers. A field experiment at an auto... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208025 Silic (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS Harvard Business School Case 108-030 A French real estate firm must choose to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
immediately rose substantially. Executives felt that they had enough evidence to discontinue the fees, and the rest of the industry followed suit. Across town in Seattle lies Zillow, a company that distributes information about... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
federal and state governments, and negative publicity driven by special interest groups." Shadreck Saili added, "Is a company this large manageable? 'Yes' for as long as its policies align with... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
economics and pop culture, particularly since the recent publication of popular books such as Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's Nudge, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow. Even so,... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
through the confusion to identify the next peak that the company should be moving toward? When they're not sure where they're going, how can they guide and inspire others? Grove, author most recently of Swimming Across (Warner Books,... View Details
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
have cases and materials that are at the household level, because we think that before you can discuss business practice or public policy, you must first understand households. Q: What comes after looking at households? A: The second... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
Field brand and part of the entrepreneur's means of distinguishing his offering at a moment when there were more than a dozen department stores in Chicago. So how did Field make his strategic mark? By establishing a powerful, relevant brand which acted-and still... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
perhaps prefer, the nearby independent. "There's a delicate balance between the synergies [two combatants] can generate on one hand and too much competition on the other," says Joan E. Primo, a principal of real View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
In 2012, two seasoned scholars shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their research on designing markets. Lloyd Shapley had developed theoretical methods to create stable matches in unstable markets. Alvin Roth had taken the theory to the View Details