by David Moss - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Sep 2017
Video

Are Carbon Tariffs Protectionism or Climate Policy?

14 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 14

of investing at home than those where external managers are involved. At the same time, SWFs with external managers tend to invest in lower P/E industries, which see an increase in the P/E ratios in the year after the investment. By way... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

where a company seems weighted down by the bounds of its original start-up business model, a lack of experience by its founder(s), and an accelerating, expense-fueled burn rate through working capital and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

School—Gary Pisano, David Upton, and Steven Wheelwright—show how a well-designed operations function can become a strategic competitive weapon. Their book is titled Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the Competitive Edge... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Mar 2025
Video

Aidra Health: Sacerdote Runner-Up Prize Winner Social Enterprise Track 2025 New Venture Competition

February 1985 (Revised July 1993)
Case

Puritan Drug Co.

David Thomas takes his first sales management assignment and is faced with a sales rep revolt because of a possible territory reorganization. In addition, his sales division is performing well below the national average. Rewritten version of a case by R.Z. Sorenson. View Details

Keywords: Salesforce Management; Conflict and Resolution; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Retail Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase

28 Feb 2011
News

Don't Try to Learn from Failure

26 May 2021
News

One Year after George Floyd’s Death: 6 Reflections on Corporate America’s Progress

01 Sep 2024
News

Back to School

There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, has used music and singing to help staffers think in unconventional ways. Poet David Whyte brings poetry to corporations such as Merck and Procter & Gamble to stir creativity View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

brought an extra white shirt for the afternoon; the first would be gray by the time they got back to the office. A manufacturing hub for everything from Buster Brown socks to Chris-Craft boats—with plenty of steel and coal foundries to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

09 Nov 2020
News

Best Business Books 2020: Talent and Leadership

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

several members of the quartet. Time spent rehearsing was time not spent performing and recording. They did eventually record the entire string quartet cycle on Nimbus. Folks who are able to play the way these guys play can get lots of gigs and are paid good rates... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

30 Mar 2010
News

Good Housekeeping's 125 "Women Who Changed Our Lives"

04 Oct 2018
News

CEO Tenure Is Getting Shorter. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.

17 Apr 2014
HBS Seminar

Paul Healy, Harvard Business School

21 Aug 2012
News

Apple Reaches Record U.S. Market Value on IPhone Optimism

8 AM – 9 AM EDT, 05 May 2021
Virtual Programming

The Post-Pandemic Future for Corporations for Institutions and Civic Society

Please join us for a fireside chat on The Post-Pandemic Future for Corporations for Institutions and Civic Society. Hosted by the Harvard Club of the Philippines, this event will feature a conversation between former HBS Dean Nitin Nohria, Atlantic Media Company... View Details

July 2012
Case

Generation Investment Management

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Matthew Preble

Examines the investment process of Generation Investment Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who must decide... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Energy Generation; Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Welfare; Financial Services Industry; India; United Kingdom

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