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- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
2007) Abstract The role of acquisitions has been widely discussed in management literature. There is considerable evidence that many acquisitions fail, often because of post-acquisition problems. More recently business historians have examined their role in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
motivators that will entice greater effort and loyalty out of workers. Turns out, using cash as a carrot isn’t always the best answer, according to new research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ashley V. Whillans. More than 80 percent of View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53601 Harvard Business School Case 718-008 'Clarín Lies!': Bias, Post-Truth, and Populism in Argentina's Media War In 2012, Argentine media conglomerate Grupo Clarín and President Cristina... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
American Civil War, Maggie Lena Walker did her best to actively effect change by finding solutions to the social and economic problems facing blacks and especially black women. Taking charge of the flailing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial Administration after World War II. This episode illustrates the increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
through which reliability and validity are enhanced for organizational learning Race at the Top: How Companies Shape the Inclusion of African Americans on Their Boards in Response to Institutional Pressures Authors:Clayton S. Rose and... View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
eight major North American and European financial services companies as well as an international internet survey in collaboration with journals and organizations. The present paper gives an overview of the initial findings of 61... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
[LAUGHS] You know? You're having Nancy Reagan and George Bush travel the country and telling you that there's a war on drugs. I just remember my one experience with it was I was fishing with my cousin at her house on Biscayne Bay sometime... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
in the data. Baskin: What was the inflection point for this growth? Weinzierl: The key point is the early 2000s. The second of two shuttle losses, in 2003, meant that the last space shuttle flight was in 2011. This was a serious crisis for the View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
2017 Washington, DC: American Public Health Association Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management By: Howitt, Arnold M., Dutch Leonard, and David W. Giles, eds. Abstract—This book provides detailed accounts of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
provided the king with a male heir, and England was only a generation away from the crippling War of the Roses; everyone worried about what would happen if there was not a clear path to succession. At the same time, the Catholic Church... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
exploration of platform battles of the future, including voice wars (Alexa vs. Hey Google vs. Siri), ridesharing and autonomous car platforms, quantum computing, and CRISPR. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
renewables, the increasing concern about global warming actually effecting daily lives, major corporate renewable buyers and the war in Ukraine, you have major tailwinds for our industry. Then you add on the passage of the IRA, and the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
by a Belgian diamond cutter and water polo champion named Gérard Blitz, the association was inspired in part by a desire to forget the horrors and privations of World War II. Seeking diversion, Blitz put together extended holidays with... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52650 Reinventing the American Wine Industry: Marketing Strategies and the Construction of Wine Culture By: Hisano, Ai Abstract—This working paper examines the remarkable growth of wine... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
interaction—enthusiastic gamers, a largely oblivious and skeptical public, and occasionally supportive video game publishers who saw marketing opportunities, but didn’t dream bigger. It wasn’t until the 1998 release of StarCraft, a game of View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
from the Negotiations That Wrested the NFL from CBS By: Sebenius, James K. Abstract—A remarkable 1993 negotiation rocked the world of American football with aftershocks that have directly shaped today’s entertainment and media landscapes... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
greater. When Exit Is an Option: Effects of Indiscriminate Violence on Attitudes Among Syrian Refugees in Turkey By: Fabbe, Kristin, Chad Hazlett, and Tolga Sinmazdemir Abstract—Most research on the effects of violence on civilian attitudes and behavior during View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne