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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
New Alliances: Forming For-Profit and Nonprofit Partnerships Where once "corporate giving" meant writing an annual check to a favorite charity, more recently for-profit firms and nonprofit recipients have begun to join forces to better... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 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
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
brands based upon five ideas about transnational companies that are prominent in today's global discourse: quality, status, country-of-origin, citizenship, and American values. "Hence, managing the transnational brand requires... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
employees, arguing that while agency theory provides a useful framework for analyzing compensation, it fails to consider several psychological factors that increase costs from performance-based pay. We examine how psychological costs from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
The U.S. health-care industry isn’t immune to the forces of disruptive innovation that already have transformed other businesses, from computer manufacturing to retailing, HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen told 250 participants at the... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
family companies in the Gulf Region was written for a conference organized by the Kennedy School in Doha, Qatar in 1997. The frameworks and approaches I used in this article really helped me get some leverage on understanding the problems... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
University Press) Walter Friedman’s Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America documents the history of salesmanship, from the days of peddlers to the creation of modern sales forces at companies like National Cash... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
responds in the negative. "I knew I would be with Synthes for a certain amount of time, because I had some equity in the company and saw there was huge potential for our products in the United States—if we could survive the first five... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
leaders on the cutting edge of research. The driving force behind this gathering since its inception has been Ray Goldberg, the veritable father of agribusiness. Along with his then HBS colleague John H. Davis, Goldberg coined the word in... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
professor Regina E. Herzlinger contended at a fall reunion presentation titled "The Four by Four Report: Effective Oversight of Nonprofit Organizations." An expert in health care and nonprofit management control, Herzlinger made the case that nonprofits fulfill View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
top posts at Schering-Plough and Wyeth. Are there structural reforms that could be implemented in the drug industry to lower the market-driven price of drugs? Forcing pharma firms to invest in R&D a minimum percentage of the sales of any... View Details
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
bad process—one perceived as unfair, illegitimate, or simply confusing—can create unnecessary barriers to agreement and that good process design can promote breakthroughs. Principle 4: Breakthrough Negotiators Foster Agreement When Possible But Employ View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
1942 to 1946). He was appointed the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking in 1967 and took on the title emeritus in 1975. During World War II, he served as an instructor in the Army Air Forces Statistical School on the... View Details
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
capabilities; the use of the five forces analysis to understand customers, suppliers, products, and competitors; how to use this analysis to identify unique opportunities to create value for customers; and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
with the Wahhabi establishment, and its increasingly dangerous environment populated with a diverse set of enemies, he looks at the prospects for the survival of the monarchy and suggests ideas for reform. Managing in the Gray: Five... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
strategies for launching them for 10 years. In this article he draws on research on dozens of platform sites and products to offer a framework for building a successful platform business. It involves asking View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
literature when it comes to linking sales efforts with strategy. Part 1 of this book provides data indicating how and why sales remain (by far) the biggest part of strategy implementation in most firms, the issues involved in linking selling investments with strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
compensation to strategy relies on agency theory economics and focuses on executive pay. Departing from this work, in this paper we focus on the strategic compensation of non-executive employees and argue that while agency theory provides a useful View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
overall communications strategy that would serve to keep the greater community more connected. The Lifelong Learning Committee, headed by Perry Driggs (MBA '61), will build on the important work undertaken by last year's committee and will coordinate closely with a... View Details