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  • 2000
  • Working Paper

The Drivers of National Innovative Capacity: Implications for Spain and Latin America

By: Michael E. Porter, Jeffrey L. Furman and Scott Stern
In the past decade, both academic scholars and policymakers have focused increasing attention on the central role that technological innovation plays in economic growth. There are at least two distinct reasons for this increased interest. First, though economists have... View Details
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    Birth of a Salesman

    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

      New To Big: How Companies Can Create Like Entrepreneurs, Invest Like VCs, and Install a Permanent Operating System for Growth

      Serial entrepreneurs David Kidder and Christina Wallace reveal their revolutionary playbook for igniting growth inside established companies.

      Most established companies face a... View Details

      • 04 Jun 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: June 4

      regressions should be complemented by realized-returns regressions. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1967706   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 713-074 Currency Wars In February 2013, the G-20... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 28 May 2024
      • In Practice

      Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

      advisory firms increasingly accommodated applicants’ personal circumstances in a drive to “win the war for talent.” Today, this is, unfortunately, not as critical. A desire to relocate geographically for personal reasons or to work at a... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • 12 Nov 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: November 12

      714-409 Coffee Wars in India: Café Coffee Day Takes on the Global Brands Café Coffee Day (CCD) is contemplating how to respond to the entry of Starbucks into the Indian coffee chain market. The case study describes the emergence of CCD as... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Web

      The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

      made, and the finished steel products. In the early twentieth century, steel provided the foundation for the construction of infrastructure and new cities in the West, the increased use of the automobile, and the production of materials for World View Details
      • December 2013
      • Supplement

      Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (B)

      By: James K. Sebenius
      This case picks up (from the end of the "A" case) the detailed story of the KGB's high-pressure negotiations with Harvard doctoral student Bruce Allyn to recruit him as a secret asset for the Soviet spy agency. The "A" case describes how, at the tense height of the... View Details
      Keywords: Negotiation; Bargaining; Hard Bargaining; KGB; Espionage; Spying; War; National Security; Alliances; Ethics; Negotiation Tactics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Offer; Cambridge; Moscow; Soviet Union
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      • 09 Oct 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

      press Compensation & Benefits Review Winning the War for Talent: Modern Motivational Methods for Attracting and Retaining Employees By: Thibault-Landry, Anais, Allan Schweyer, and Ashley V. Whillans Abstract—Given the struggle that... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • 07 Jul 2022
      • HBS Case

      How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

      partnership that would make Ample Hills the official ice cream of the Star Wars franchise and harness its unique flavors to celebrate Mickey Mouse’s 90th birthday. There were marshmallow “Light Side” and chocolate “Dark Side” flavors;... View Details
      Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
      • 02 Aug 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: August 2

      pharmaceutical and skin care company. During World War I the expropriation of its brands and trademarks revealed its vulnerability to political risk. Following the advent of the Nazi regime in 1933, the largely Jewish owned and managed... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 2015
      • Article

      Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World

      By: Jeremy Friedman
      This article seeks to understand the motivations behind the People's Republic of China's attempt to present an alternative development model for the post-colonial world and challenge Soviet leadership in the international communist movement in mid-1960s. When the wave... View Details
      Keywords: Development Economics; Business and Government Relations; China; United States; Soviet Union
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      • 08 Jun 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Poverty, Social Divisions and Conflict in Nepal

      Keywords: by Quy-Toan Do & Lakshmi Iyer
      • 28 Sep 2017
      • HBS Seminar

      Annelle Sheline, GWU

      • 18 Nov 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: November 18

      http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Teixeira%20et%20al%20(2014)%20Television%20Advertising%20and%20Online%20Shopping_7d5c54e1-fd1b-4dcc-bd41-06e2978d4f23.pdf   Working Papers The Air War versus The Ground Game: An Analysis of... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Why Has Construction Productivity Stagnated? The Role of Land-Use Regulation

      By: Leonardo D’Amico, Edward Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, William Kerr and Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto
      We document a Kuznets curve for construction productivity in 20th-century America. Homes built per construction worker remained stagnant between 1900 and 1940, boomed after World War II, and then plummeted after 1970. The productivity boom from 1940 to 1970 shows... View Details
      Keywords: Governance Controls; Performance Productivity; Local Range; Construction Industry
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      • 14 Feb 2023
      • HBS Case

      Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

      trade unions formed a federation in 1898, so did manufacturers and other employers—not in opposition, but in cooperation. It was the first pillar of what became its post-World War II model. The cost of social services The model blossomed... View Details
      Keywords: by Lane Lambert
      • 2011
      • Chapter

      American Exceptionalism?: A Comparative Analysis of the Origins and Trajectory of U.S. Business Education Development

      By: Rakesh Khurana
      As business education in an academic setting becomes an increasingly global phenomenon, the university-based business school in America remains a unique institution. This holds true despite the fact that the American business school as it evolved in the post-World War... View Details
      Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Business History; Business Education; Power and Influence; Society; United States; Europe
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      Enter Elton Mayo – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

      Archives Photograph Collection Elton Mayo was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1880. Affable, witty, and a brilliant lecturer, he taught mental and moral philosophy at the University of Queensland, where he conducted psycho-pathological tests on World View Details
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      Private Capital Project

      the strategic use of private capital is inextricably tied to Harvard Business School. The first modern PE fund, American Research and Development, was designed and led by Professor Georges Doriot in the years after World War II at HBS.... View Details