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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
that needed professional management assistance. Five years later, I was promoted to company president and became a member of the Young Presidents' Organization. My lifelong friends in YPO helped me to buy and ultimately sell my company;... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
at a time when there are really important contextual changes taking place in the world. Let me highlight five such factors that we discuss in the book. One is the changing nature of the geopolitical economy. When I came to the United... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
strategies, shortcomings, and achievements play out in the future? How do we imagine this great and resurgent nation with its embedded conflicts and challenges will look in 2034? We examine successively the forces that have made China as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
trust. Lavish executive compensation not only drains the corporate treasury and dilutes the shareholders' earnings, but, perhaps even more importantly, it can lead the recipients to believe that they really are worth five hundred times... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
argued the merits of each, we inquired into which happiness people say they want. In five studies (N = 3351), we asked people to choose between experienced happiness and remembered happiness—for shorter time frames (e.g., one’s next hour)... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Network Utilization and the Impact of Academic Research in Marketing By: Rosenzweig, Stav, Amir Grinstein, and Elie Ofek Abstract—The forces that drive the impact of academic research articles in the marketing discipline are of great... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
to their reliable software and responsive customer service. The company had achieved this growth without the help of any outside financing. The five co-founders of eCW, who treated each other like an extended family, invested years of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
management methods in American business," finished fourth, followed by IBM's Thomas J. Watson, whose "computers enabled the automation of well-informed decision-making, allowing business and the work force to migrate from manual labor in... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Internet-enabled, branchless banking model. But Rodríguez doesn’t just hand these companies money and wish them well. He wants them to thrive—to grow and scale. He wants them to do so well, in fact, that they attract competitors, forcing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
intrinsic economics of the situation led to a major collapse,” explains Sandwen. Almost immediately after the crash, a chastened industry began to emerge. Congress rewrote the tax code and put tax-loss syndicators out of business. The S&L industry tanked, View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
only a conscious and concerted effort of group development can harness that strength. Outlines five steps in group development each team must take. Suggests that action learning, the skill the learning group must master to become... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
all highly successful. But they also share something in common: failure. Steve Schwarzman: You don't grow just by winning games. You have to lose a few to figure out how to make your team better. DM: In this special edition of Skydeck, associate editor Julia Hanna asks... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
famous inventor Charles F. Kettering (MBA ’27) predicted ARD would go bust in five years. But Doriot proved him wrong over the next 25 years, as his firm financed and nurtured more than 100 start-ups, many of which became huge successes... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
well, making Seven Bucks Productions a force to be reckoned with in the world of entertainment. Are Johnson and Garcia right to bet on a new digital channel, which is scheduled to make its debut on YouTube in the next month, and do they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
intuition for the basic economic forces in this decentralized market through a series of examples that sequentially build on each other layering on the particular fees and collateral requirements commonly levied in short-selling... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
firm, forcing the firm to lower its prices. If the open source developers' intrinsic motivation is high enough, they will develop software regardless of eventual market dynamics. If the open source product is available first, all... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
excessive economic concentration, so lucidly and incisively analysed here, are not limited to the financial services industry. For the problem is now widespread: while five firms control 80% of the banking industry, a similar or greater... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
of collective action. While the available evidence is generally consistent with these theories, there is a dearth of quality evidence. Moreover, a large part of the variation in access to public goods seems to have nothing to do with the "bottom-up" View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
she is quite petite, just over five feet tall, a figure all the more surprising given the force of her presence. It may help explain why, when crowding into the back of a taxi, Oishi insists on occupying the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
company are added to the drives by the neighborhood distributor. Hip-hop duo La Reyna y La Real also use the service for promotion, noting that most of their fellow musicians advertise this way. “If you dig deep into Cuba’s history, it’s full of events that have View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North