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- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Markets Authors:Charles Dhanaraj and Tarun Khanna Publication:Academy of Management Learning & Education 10, no. 4 (December 2011) Abstract Economic growth in the Western View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
Marketers can make a bottle of sugar water look like golden elixir. Can health advocates sour the taste for consumers? (SteveDF) San Francisco is in a three-year battle with the American Beverage Industry... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
China) in multilateral negotiations, notably in the World Trade Organization's Doha Round. Yet Brazil's actions to enforce a compulsory license of a patented therapy for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
term whims of the POTUS who will be out of office at some point.” Richard Eckel commented, “Screw the politics; run your business and innovate a strong brand into new markets Start with engaging the markets... View Details
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
prevailed through the difficulties of finding capital, and through the difficulties of her own very limited social position. In a market in which there weren't many realms... View Details
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
and limit ‘globalization’ to commercial terms To me, ‘globalization’ means increasing knowledge of how other people in the world live and think.” Doug Kinsey set forth a view shared more or less by many... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
John A. Quelch, Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus. Tip: Small talk works big wonders Another factor that workplaces can focus on right now is creating opportunities for informal conversations. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
of employee time" for it. Edward Hare proposes that organizations might "understand who their deep thinkers are and then make absolutely certain that they're in a position to take advantage of their rather unique... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
are not aligned. "CEOs should be working with both constituencies, insiders and outsiders," says Sadun. "However, if there are governance issues, there might be the possibility that the CEO is in the outside View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate
Efforts to restrict women’s sexual behavior date back centuries in virtually every region of the world. Now, the end of Roe v. Wade in the United States has returned such... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
marketing was dreadful, and its finances would have collapsed had it not been for CFO Fred Anderson’s work. The world of computers was dominated by Microsoft, especially after the introduction of its... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
that managerial fiduciary duties affect equity-bondholder conflicts in a way that is economically important, has impact on ex ante capital structure choices, and affects welfare. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
the risks of failure. Adding to this concern is that even as the number of mega audit firms has contracted from eight in the 1980s to four today, their combined market share remains formidable, especially... View Details
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
Why in the world would anyone take the time to write complicated software programs for free? It's a good question, one that has piqued the curiosity of a number of economists, who wonder what benefits, if... View Details
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
organizations. We can learn vicariously from their experiences. Consider the example of one manager who was about to undergo a critical transition in her career, only four years after first becoming a manager. When she was about to step... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
software and IT services industry as players seek to develop their capabilities for their growing domestic market. We describe the implications of our findings for CIOs in developed countries. Our main prediction is that the challenges of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
future stock market returns by extrapolating past returns: they expect the stock market to perform well (poorly) in the near future if it performed well (poorly) View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne