Prisoners Of War - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs

detailed their results four years ago in the Harvard Business Review article, "The Risky Business of Hiring Stars." Since launching his research into the war for talent, however, Groysberg has... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

capabilities set a favorable foundation for the economic growth miracle the country experienced after World War II. If history is any guide, Japan should make a full recovery from the devastating effects of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

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 View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

constitute an impressive 49 percent of the world's capital markets. But the job picture is bleak, with over four million people unemployed for more than 26 weeks. Productivity growth has been negative for four years. Compared to the other... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

people are more likely to endorse a more aggressive, masculine leader—for example, Winston Churchill—to take action. But a pandemic is not a war and framing it as a warlike threat may hinder effective action. An infectious disease threat... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

explain a little bit about your research in this area? Josh Lerner: By the end of World War II, the corporate research laboratory model was widely adopted in the United States. A corporation would have a... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

World War I, it was allowed to share patents with AT&T, Westinghouse, and United Fruit, which used radio to communicate across its infrastructure of plantations and transportation links throughout Latin... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

23 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

presided over the development of the empirical social sciences to address questions of labor regulation and control within manufacturing industries. Next, we look at the creation View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

iPhoto This weekend the NFL is concluding its annual draft. Up to 255 college football players will be distributed over three days across the 32 NFL teams. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

Apple Computer knows how to make headlines. The company is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh and is enjoying the fruits of its launch into the digital entertainment business. In its December... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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