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- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
now give to the overall benefits of globalization. As practiced today, Ricardo's classic system results in win-win exchanges when both trading partners are either (1) industrialized nations with modern impulse/check/balance governments,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
based at HBS, Christensen's influence and legacy extend well beyond the banks of the Charles and transcend the study of business administration. When he received the School's... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
objectives in case method learning. One challenge for case method instructors is the assessment of students' class participation, particularly in large classes. This article offers a solution that mines the practices of peer-to-peer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
network of 100,000 one-teacher schools throughout rural India. More than a quarter century later, in 2014, the Ekal network included over 54,000 schools. However, with the emergence of India as an economic power, government schools had View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
operations are not well integrated across media. As a consequence, a frequent shopper may be given first-class treatment in the physical store but receive marginal service on the telephone or via the Internet. Retailers need to tap into... View Details
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
they conclude they can’t stay given the requirements of the job. Unless employers assist them so they can stay in the job, they give up a productive worker. Their replacement is an unknown quantity. Employers constantly make speculative... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
ideas and ventures; and the drag of middle management screening of ideas in large organizations that is absent in startups. They concluded, among other things, that the bottom-up RAP process still held the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
receive multiple evaluations and thereby lowering the incidence of "false negatives." Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
gives firms discretion to manage impairments. We test this argument in a sample of firms with market indications of impairment (firms with book goodwill and market-to-book ratio below one). We find that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
S. Grossman, and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 512-026 When Diane Paulus, artistic director and CEO of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) first started in 2008, she attracted media coverage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the headlines and... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
continuing the event's success and momentum after its founder, Jennifer (Jen) Goodman Linn (HBS '99), passed away from MFH sarcoma. Jen and her husband, David Linn (HBS '00), had founded Cycle for Survival... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
captured during its daily interactions with shareholders and market analysts. As a first step, he put a formalized process in place to collect and present it in a more systematic way. The team, for example,... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
school model in which students spend significantly more time reading, providing more individualized attention to students and families, addressing the challenge of finding outstanding teachers, and doing so... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
New Model of Leadership Authors:Michael C. Jensen and Allan L. Scherr Abstract In this paper we provide a new definition of leadership that gives organizations and individuals... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
In the family of investment products, a U.S. savings bond might be cast as boring old Uncle Ned, snoozing away in the corner after dinner. There's nothing wrong with that—but HBS professor Peter Tufano envisions a more meaningful role for savings bonds in the financial... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
strengths and limitations of this method, and address two misconceptions about ABMs: reductionism and “you get out what you put in.” We also offer maxims for good View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
It was in the late 1990s that the finger pointing began between Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier and its Brazilian competitor, Embraer. Each company alleged that the other was receiving government... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
very experienced account manager might take a much less experienced account manager along just to listen in on meetings, not to contribute, but just to listen. What tends to happen now is that we try to teach people by giving them... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
with old ideas and patient with new ideas. That’s true. When we start trying a new program or service, it’s not going to roll out perfectly. We do have to give it a meaningful chance. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace