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  • 2018
  • Chapter

Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence

By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter explores the British experience in a volume which examines the historical evolution of business groups in developed Western economies. The chapter argues that during the nineteenth century British merchant houses established business groups with... View Details
Keywords: Business Groups; Conglomerates; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Organizations; Business Conglomerates; United Kingdom
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    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

    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Going to Extremes: Crucibles, Multiple Sensitive Periods, and Career Progression

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sunasir Dutta, Hise O. Gibson and Eric Lin
    We study the effects of crucible experiences along multiple sensitive periods on career progression. While prior literature has hinted that individuals can be imprinted during multiple sensitive periods, not just during the early career, there has been scant attention... View Details
    Keywords: Jobs and Positions; Personal Development and Career; Management Skills; Human Capital
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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 View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • August 2007 (Revised November 2010)
    • Case

    Grand Central Publishing

    By: Anita Elberse
    In April 2007, Grand Central's publisher Jamie Raab and editor Karen Kosztolnyik were involved in a frantic bidding war for a proposed book on the life of cat Dewey, billed as the feline answer to the best-selling "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Product Launch; Bids and Bidding; Product Development; Publishing Industry
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    • 08 Nov 2016
    • First Look

    November 8, 2016

    forthcoming European Competition Journal Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google's Practices in Mobile By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Damien Geradin Abstract—Since its launch in 2007, Android has become the dominant mobile device operating system... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2024
    • Article

    Crucibles, Multiple Sensitive Periods, and Career Progression

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sunasir Dutta, Hise O. Gibson and Eric Lin
    We study the effects of crucible experiences along multiple sensitive periods on career progression. While prior literature has hinted that individuals can be imprinted during multiple sensitive periods, not just during the early career, there has been scant attention... View Details
    Keywords: Military Service; Personal Development and Career; Transformation; Power and Influence; Learning; Human Capital
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    • Research Summary

    Making Markets Work: An Executive Education Program for Africa

    By: Debora L. Spar
    In the last decades of the 20th century economic growth was distributed unevenly across the world. While some countries experienced sustained and unprecedented prosperity, others fell further and further behind. This widening gap was particularly evident in Africa,... View Details
    • 08 Jul 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie Chen
    • 28 Jan 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

    Whillans co-wrote a recent article in Compensation & Benefits Review, “Winning the War for Talent: Modern Motivational Methods for Attracting and Retaining Employees,” with Anais Thibault-Landry of the... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Strategy - Faculty & Research

    bypass it altogether. Citation Educators Related Wu, Andy, and Anna Yang. "AI Wars in 2025." Harvard Business School Case 725-484, June 2025. Roku and The Future of Television, 2025 By: David B. Yoffie ,... View Details
    • 23 May 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    What Could Bring Globalization Down?

    cables to Germany, after war broke out in 1914. The Lusitania (which was sunk on May 7, 1915) is simply a good symbol for the end of this first age because so much had previously depended on safe navigation... View Details
    Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
    • 24 Oct 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Bernie Madoff Explains Himself

    evening for several months. Madoff, a renowned stockbroker turned fraudster, conducted the phone calls from FCI Butner, a medium-security federal correctional institution in North Carolina. At the time, he was serving the third year of a... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
    • 25 Jan 2021
    • Book

    In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

    How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
    • 19 Sep 2023
    • HBS Case

    How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?

    whether we should adopt AI—but rather, when and how to do so,” says Andy Wu, the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Wu’s recent case study and background note, AI... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
    • May 2008
    • Article

    When Winning Is Everything

    By: Deepak Malhotra, Gillian Ku and J. Keith Murnighan
    In the heat of competition, executives can easily become obsessed with beating their rivals. This adrenaline-fueled emotional state, which the authors call competitive arousal, often leads to bad decisions. Managers can minimize the potential for competitive arousal... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Behavior; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
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    • 04 Sep 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

    this country. If elected, I will do everything possible to ensure that America has the strongest defense forces in the world and that we are prepared to fight two major wars at a time. If elected, I will do everything possible to protect... View Details
    Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk
    • Web

    Lehman Brothers Timeline | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s Leadership Transitions 2008 Bankruptcy... View Details
    • 27 Jun 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

    often a trait of the most effective leaders, as it was in the best-respected of all American political leaders, Abraham Lincoln. Once, when the Civil War was not going well for... View Details
    Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
    • 14 Feb 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950

    Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio