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- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
experience has been a mixed blessing. In Argentina, liberalization and opening to the world in the 1990s first produced growth, and then instability as the Asian financial crisis impacted the country. At the turn of the century a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
and so many of the ideas that came to be taught were developed by the faculty. The cases were shorter and simpler but still raised important issues. Most of the students enjoyed the few lectures that the faculty offered because it was comforting to be told what you... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
family and/or be prepared to pay for help, you definitely need help. What has been most challenging about being a mama during COVID? All of us trying to work from a tiny space this winter - my husband, me, our nanny, and Olivia. Also,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
day, that came through. But, you know, that's the only assessment I would give. DM: You think you earned this reputation through mutual respect. That you would, you know ... JI: Yeah. And doing things when I didn't need it. I wasn't... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
group. Membership is a commitment to Leadership Now’s principles and to investing your time, expertise, and financial resources toward these issues and participating in our annual meeting. We’re really about three things: First, getting... View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
South Africa in the late 19th century, they brought with them accounting practices such as “double-entry” bookkeeping, which changed the country’s financial system. More recently, hundreds of Soviet mathematicians came to the United... View Details
- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
Leaders of publicly held companies are required to exercise their best judgment in pursuit of the interests of the business, and this gives them enormous flexibility to make whatever choice they see fit. This a test that cannot be deferred to View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
have argued that the real problem is that incentives work too well. Specifically, they motivate employees to focus excessively on doing what they need to do to gain rewards, sometimes at the expense of doing other things that would help... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
occurrence of organizational errors. Further, in the light of a recurring critique of prior error-related organizational studies as being narrowly context-bound and therefore of limited interest to organizational researchers in general, we elaborate on the critical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
the Soviets had entered Bucharest, Romania, which had allied itself with Germany in 1940. But each day of the offensive cost countless lives. It wasn’t enough to win the war; the Allies needed to win it now. That was the real mission—code... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
to Spain, women, and dissenters. Who will enjoy this book? Just about everyone, but especially curious laypeople without any background in this field, students trying to get a handle on a difficult history course, business executives who View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
business as possible, but to think that you're going to apply a model to it, you're in the wrong business. You need to go do something else. And certainly the Derby is the pinnacle. And people that get into the business in a substantive... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
competitive marketplace with many different price points, including zero, the brand becomes absolutely critical.” Besides, he observes, those seeking to make money from yoga need to weigh the pluses and minuses of that authenticity.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
competition in its focus on BoP businesses. Not yet, Rodríguez responds. “We hope to see more people pouring in, because it will mean IGNIA was successful. Poverty is like an elephant,” he adds. “We’ve been trying to kill it with a BB gun, but we View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
possible alliances and partnerships); manufacturers (for manufacturing set-top boxes); non-U.S. licensees; and wholesale and retail distributors (for sales). With his promising venture running on fumes, Perlman's next obvious negotiation might have been with venture... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
interconnected global community. So disease threats such as COVID-19 need to be recognized as part of the current work-scape and systematically addressed,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor of Business Administration Ashley... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
discovers somebody else doing something that works, they'll enter that. They'll bring capital or they'll bring people, some type of resources, and mostly squeeze the margin out of it. And so, you need to... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
had a very simple cheer. We all made a capital I with our hands and arms and shouted "I I I I I.” Very sophisticated! 1997B’s “Jambo!” (“Hello” in Swahili) 1998I’s “Banzai!” 1999A had a cheer, as did all of the other '99 sections. Ours... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
shipping routes to avoid sanctions—traveling from the United States to Panama to Jamaica before arriving in Havana four to six weeks later. The history of Cuba’s private sector is relatively new, short, and complicated. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North