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- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
decisions were discussed and made. Then she moved to expand her risk management process throughout the bank. She handed out 10,000 booklets that presented the department's view and expertise in areas including market risk, credit risk, and operational risk. All the... View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
unto themselves, businesses have become involved in the pursuit of science and universities in the commercialization of science. Unlike traditional high technology, science-based businesses--especially biotech and pharmaceuticals, nanotechnology, and View Details
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
express a high-level set of principles that employees are expected to abide by, but what the court effectively said is, ‘This is akin to marketing material that people don’t take literally word-for-word.” So do company ethics codes have... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49196 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 815-113 MINTing Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian (B) This short (B) case gives an update on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
productivity always hold a fascination for us. But the last few weeks seem to have brought an unusual flow of material on the subject across my desk. One question this raises is, "Why now?" In short order, I am encouraged by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
reflect on the material and ideas discussed in class and apply it to their own situations. This is a rich opportunity for sharing information in an informal atmosphere in which participants can build relationships with each other that... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
business and concentrates on how to pull them together in a meaningful way. We look at early stage companies, but we're developing more material on being entrepreneurial within more established companies. View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
a modern enterprise, and encourages an ethic of greedy materialism in which managers are expected to care only about personal financial reward, and in which such human character virtues as honesty and decency are honored only when they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
approaches are not suitable in settings where a material portion of the observations is at the boundaries. Nonlinear methods use restrictive distributional assumptions and employ ad-hoc transformations for observations at the boundaries.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
asset pricing models with limited investment capital, but also suggest that both the level and distribution of capital are crucial for accurately describing price dynamics. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49425 Cases & Course... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-041_1af09bde-47f9-4364-bad6-aaac464be909.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-008 The United Kingdom and the Means to Prosperity After struggling through the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2302589 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 514-022 Tesco Group Food In 2010, the world's third largest retailer created a new centralized sourcing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
restaurants to engage in review fraud. We then turn our attention to negative review fraud and find that increased competition by similar restaurants is the driving force behind it. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2293164 Cases & Course View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
non-founding CEO will never be able to get." According to this thinking, for a fixed level of total rewards, if founders receive a higher level of psychological rewards, they should be willing to accept a smaller amount of material... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
enterprise, the future is not something that just happens. It is something they create. —Richard S. Tedlow A born empire builder, Carnegie could see in the early 1870s that steel was destined to transform the material basis of... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
currency, triggering a chain reaction that some believe contributed to the Great Recession of 2008. Here’s their thinking: Although the depressed value of the yuan increased the cost of raw materials imported by China, it produced a huge... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
(especially between western and eastern contexts) and is also a contribution to both the project management and cross-cultural management literatures. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2562376 Cases & Course Materials... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-113.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-010 Experience! The Finger Lakes: The Groupon Partnership Decision In 2010, Experience! The Finger Lakes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
efficiencies and lower costs. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/asheen/consumer%20mergers%206-28-13.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 413-013 Women MBAs at Harvard Business School: 1962-2012 Eight women... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
boundaries around their workday. “When people typically arrive home from work, they often have a corner or a mudroom where they drop their stuff,” Norton says. “Now many people have work all over the place.” He advises storing laptops and work-related View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost