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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
instantaneously," the Internet has created a world in which competitive advantage can appear and disappear overnight. Yoffie and Cusumano use the term "judo strategy" to encompass the combination of capabilities that competing on Internet... View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
direction. But for Baldwin and other Navy pilots, nothing created more anxiety than landing on the carrier at night -- a feat that amounted to a controlled crash on a deck that was, in the case of the World View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
end, though, all the tools in the world won’t make you a successful mix-master. For that, you need to bring your own creativity and insights to the table. The master? Steve Jobs. When the exiled CEO returned to yank Apple out of near... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
for the working class. First, welfare reformers in the interwar period embraced private credit as an alternative to an expansive welfare state. Second, U.S. organized labor in the wake of World War View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
After its war of liberation from England, America was bankrupt, disjointed, and devoid of experience in governance. "The new country could have broken apart because of its financial problems," HBS professor emeritus Thomas McCraw writes... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
responsible for the deployment of cell phones to two-thirds of Afghans. My research shows that throughout the developing world successful organizations like Roshan must inevitably take on more tasks than their counterpart firms in more... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
as the state grew in the middle of the 20th century through the Great Depression and World War Two, and the advance of entitlements, we needed to fund those things and the fiscal capacity of the state grew.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
line half a world away for not only each other, but for another country and way of life. One of these soldiers I will remember forever, and I wear on my wrist every day: SPC GABRIEL D. CONDE ABLE CO 3RD BN 509TH IN (ABN) KIA 30 APR 2018... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Tower” lingers, though it has been covered in green terra-cotta since the end of World War II. The cost to construct the building in 1928 was $10 million, $135 million in today’s dollars. Last June Cummings... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
Her focus, with the support of her boss, USIP President Lise Grande, is to help a relatively new field gel – to consolidate political and business leaders’ appreciation of the linkages between environmental “tensions and grievances” and View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
after being caught. The Cost Of Doing Business Siemens had moved aggressively into developing countries following World War II, when a German company was persona non grata to most of the Western world.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
magazine journalism early in the 1930s, Luce was able to cover some of the largest political and social events of the 20th century, including Charles Lindbergh's flight, World War II, the Cold War, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
or specific job history. Like Shackleton, today’s leaders need team members and other stakeholders who can acknowledge turbulence, embrace its opportunities, and meet its challenges with confidence and effect. Abraham Lincoln When Doing Nothing Is the Best Action As... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
support, delivered by a separate, independently funded staff, which builds public will, advances policy, and mobilizes resources. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51710 forthcoming Organization Science The Impact of Patent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
the hardships of World War II, with its shortages, rationing, bombardments, and Nazi occupation. After the war ended, at the age of 17, he went to Switzerland, where he... View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
Here then are our most-read stories in 2006. Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win? Using formal economic modelling, professors Pankaj Ghemawat and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell consider the competitive dynamics of the software wars between... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
aftermath of World War II, government funding for scientific research increased and large corporations followed suit, with firms such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Ford establishing dedicated centralized... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
formed. American Business, 1920–2000: How It Worked by Thomas K McCraw (The American History Series/Harlan Davidson) The past decade has brought such enormous change to the business world that it can be easy to lose sight of the equally... View Details
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
capital. In order to do all of this, certainly my background in finance helped, but I also earned the FSA credential levels I and II that is issued by the SASB and this allowed me to apply their framework when evaluating public equities... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace