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- 28 Aug 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How can business history influence current practice? What can the work of Joseph Schumpeter tell us about... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
this interview he discusses the development of the German corporation and what modern managers can learn from that history. The book was edited by Thomas K. McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, and was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome
contemporary readings to surface insights into the age-old issue of leadership. Q: Why is ancient Rome a good lens for exploring modern leadership themes? Dench: It’s a remote, dead society, yet larger than life, which makes it a very... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
they understood as revolving around mutual respect and the company as a family. Focusing on a different element of the HP Way, Fiorina saw her actions as consistent with the HP value of seizing opportunities. Hypocrisy may be unavoidable for leaders in the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
results in the May 2019 working paper, The Consequences of Invention Secrecy: Evidence from the USPTO Patent Secrecy Program in World War II. Although less common in the modern era, the US government still issues patent secrecy orders... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
Madam C.J. Walker helped invent what have become staples of our modern country and economy: national sales forces, corporate social responsibility, and, yes, even basic haircare. Orphaned at age 8, married at 14, and widowed at 20 with a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
Williams, who wrote the Academy-award-winning score for Jaws. It’s one of the most recognizable and influential scores in the world. In modern pop culture, great white sharks are inexorably tied to the terrifying two-note pattern of the... View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
Trumbull, that unfettered marketplace has "virtually disappeared." "Today, arguably no other economic actor in the advanced industrial countries—not the investor, not the worker, not the welfare recipient—enjoys a more thorough set of legal and institutional... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
There's a saying in the military: "Plans go out the window at the first contact with the enemy." Even General Dwight Eisenhower—who oversaw the most ambitious military invasion in modern history—said, "Plans are worthless." But he added... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
change in motion," explains Hammond, "by pulling suppliers closer to him, insisting that they implement the information technology necessary for exchanging sales data, adopt standards for product and shipping container labeling, and use View Details
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
Publications February 2015 University of Chicago Press Political Standards By: Ramanna, Karthik Abstract—There are certain institutions underlying our modern market-capitalist system that are largely outside the interest and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
years. In this period, Norway was at the forefront with regard to implementing legislation regulating cartels, yet the legislation was not an antitrust legislation in the modern sense. It was aimed not only at protecting consumer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Working PapersCapitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan (revised October 2009) Authors:Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Japan's industrial landscape is characterized by hierarchical forms of industry organization, which are increasingly inadequate in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
Abstract Modern global trends are changing the face of teams. But we believe that much of today's teams' research focuses us on the present and the past while barely acknowledging the future. Much more radical changes exist in what is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges Between Education and Business
cases written in Spanish, Portuguese or English. Translations themselves should not take up undue effort, added Matko Koljatic, dean of the business school at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. "In the modern world, you have to use... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
reviews of dozens or more user-customers," he says. Just as a modern art museum is clearly a modern art museum, so should a firm be clear about what it does and doesn't offer. "Occasionally an organization... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
accomplish something big together. Silverthorne: Why does group culture seem to matter so much when we thought economic interests dominate everything? Kanter: Modern bureaucratic life was built on the myth that people could come to work... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne