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  • 05 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

for cadavers. Anteby's current research examines the morality of markets by focusing on the U.S. supply and demand of cadavers for medical research and education.) Anyone who has been trained as a physician—or is close to someone who has... View Details
Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

Sometimes executive education has little to do with what happens in a classroom. Mentoring and coaching are the time-tested ways for wisdom and knowledge to be passed through an organization. Harvard Business School professor Dorothy Leonard and Tufts University... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" in Düsseldorf. The article narrates how by means of various cooperative efforts growing out of a sense of paternal social engagement, which we would today call corporate social responsibility,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?

to be inconsistent, if not contradictory. "In the ultimate analysis, however everything boils down to perception of the team members or subordinates or followers of the leader concerned." The importance of maintaining an open mind on the subject of leadership... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

Business School Press), a new book by HBS professor Dorothy Leonard and Professor Walter Swap of Tufts University. The authors not only disprove the stereotypical perception of group creativity as an... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
  • 31 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson as well as Ryan Holiday’s instant classic The Obstacle is the Way. I have also been ramping... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing
  • 27 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

official responsibility for Continental Airlines' decision to keep flying during the power blackout in August 2003, but that decision was foreordained by the actions of all the other people who claimed leadership on the ground, and knew... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 07 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?

fall in love with Tony the Tiger and forget the product details. In 1984, Democrat candidate Walter Mondale famously questioned Gary Hart's "new ideas" by asking: "Where's the beef?" As... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting
  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

the keys to their successful global expansions? By HBS professors David Bell, Rajiv Lal, and Walter Salmon. Global Knowledge Sharing And Performance Drivers Organizing Multinational Companies: Building a... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
  • 18 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

According to experts at the conference session titled "From Bubble to Recession: The Current State of the Venture Capital Industry," none of the answers are simple, but a sense of perspective remains one highly valuable commodity. According to View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 2004
  • Book

Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America

By: Walter A. Friedman
This book chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated by peddlers and... View Details
Keywords: Sales; Employees; Transformation; United States
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Friedman, Walter A. Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

New Paths to Success in Asia

Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region today are caught up in a dizzying swirl of economic, cultural, political, technological, and social change. Enormous opportunities await managers who can harness these power currents to drive their businesses forward, but their... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

ridiculed Babson's forecasting methods, which were informed by his belief, based on his reading of Isaac Newton, that economic "actions and reactions" (or depressions and expansions) would always be equal. But Babson was able to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

  PublicationsThe Rise of the Modern Firm Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Walter A. Friedman, eds. Publication:Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2012 This authoritative volume focuses on the rise of modern firms, from their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

  Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters By: Friedman, Walter A. Abstract—The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Little is known about the factors that influence regulatory-agency decision making. We posit that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2012
  • Book

The Rise of the Modern Firm

By: Geoffrey Jones and Walter A. Friedman
This authoritative volume focuses on the rise of modern firms, from their early history to the present day. It considers the role of laws and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives and the firms they... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Economy; Business History; Archives; Contracts; Theory
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Jones, Geoffrey, and Walter A. Friedman, eds. The Rise of the Modern Firm. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012.
  • 05 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’

coauthors are Walter Swap, professor of psychology emeritus and former chairman of the Psychology Department at Tufts University, and Gavin Barton, principal and founder of GB Performance Consulting. book excerpt Bank Of America's... View Details
Keywords: Re: Dorothy A. Leonard; Banking
  • September 1993 (Revised June 1995)
  • Case

Wholesale Club Industry

By: Walter J. Salmon
The wholesale club industry experienced rapid growth in the 1980s. By 1993 there were signs that the industry was maturing and perhaps facing a shakeout. This case provides comprehensive data to permit an analysis of the viability and likely direction of the industry. View Details
Keywords: Industry Growth; Retail Industry
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Salmon, Walter J. "Wholesale Club Industry." Harvard Business School Case 594-035, September 1993. (Revised June 1995.)
  • 2010
  • Chapter

Leadership and History

By: Walter A. Friedman
Historians have written a lot about business leaders, especially successful ones. In fact, rags-to-riches stories have come to embody the philosophy of America itself, yet the term "business leadership" was rarely used until the early twentieth century. This chapter... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; History; Leadership
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Friedman, Walter A. "Leadership and History." Chap. 11 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
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