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  • 03 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks

“Just as the leitmotif of the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz might evoke images of its cackling, green-skinned character, the ominously quickening motif that typifies the Jaws soundtrack may similarly evoke haunting images... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Media & Broadcasting
  • 03 Jun 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

nuanced cultural approaches." Whether this will produce sustained economic superiority or a model to be emulated in the U.S. is debatable.—James Heskett Roy Bingham points out that "American management seems to work best when the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

immigrants favored the increase in industrialization as well as the establishment of more and larger firms, and then grew over time. “After 1880, parts of the US West that were more impacted by the Chinese Exclusion Act grew at... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

Express; Solomon Trujillo, president and CEO of U S West Communications; and Ann Fudge, president of Maxwell House Coffee Company and Post Cereals? How did these people of color overcome the odds and break through the glass ceiling that... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

supplement: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208125 China's Financial Markets: 2007 Harvard Business School Note 208-147 Provides an overview of capital markets in mainland China in 2007, evaluating the up-to-date... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

key transitions that shape leaders' careers, specifying processes and moderating conditions for identity transformation. Implications for designing experiences and training that take identity processes into account are drawn. Purchase the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

business's key success factors and other important interests, and strictly adhering to "professional" compensation principles, which are useful standards to try to follow but they may not meet important personal and family... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

which it has opened up to the outside world—shapes those markets, and companies must consider those factors, too. The five contexts framework places a superstructure of key markets on a base of sociopolitical choices. Many multinational... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

University of Hong Kong: Bridging East and West In the early 20th century, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) was established in order to serve as a bridge between mainland China and the British Empire. As an elite institution in the 21st... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

Publications Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest Author: Niall Ferguson Publication: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Review the book: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

business. As the Republic of Turkey sought to catch up with the advanced West in the 20th century, the pioneers of modern businesses faced the same challenges caused by weak capital, labor, and other markets as encountered in many other... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

major role in propelling growth. But there were two key differences. First, the scale of Chinese currency intervention was without precedent, as were the resulting distortions of the world economy. Second, the Chinese have so far resisted... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 11

a 5.3% increase in RVUs per clinician workday; an increase in delegation of EHR tasks of 1 standard deviation resulted in an 11.0% increase in RVUs per clinician workday (P August 2013 Journal of Development Economics Evolution of Land Distribution in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8

Price Competition Models Authors:Awi Federgruen and Margaret Pierson Abstract The question of what impact mergers and acquisitions have on key equilibrium performance measures is fundamental to our understanding of competitive dynamics in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

sharpen its "Stepping Up in Asia" strategy, LEGO executives employed scenario planning as a key tool to weigh potential outcomes. The technique, which has been around since the 1960s, fell out of favor in recent decades. In his... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

Authors:Diwas KC, Bradley R. Staats, and Francesca Gino Abstract Learning from past experience is central to an organization's adaptation and survival. A key dimension of prior experience is whether an outcome was successful or... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

market conditions and, indeed, to a company's own strategic decisions. By serving the U.S. market from Japan, Toyota in its early days implicitly considered that market to be on the periphery of its own region. The North American West... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 22 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

We tend to think of the moment of insight and creativity in sudden and shocking terms: the bathtub overflowing (Archimedes), the apple beaning off the head (Newton), the bolt of lightning shivering the key at the end of a kite (Franklin).... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 24 Jul 2013
  • Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

and new construction. On the other hand, well-managed public-private partnerships, where the private sector funds, builds, and operates key public infrastructure, can shift the capital requirement from municipalities to the private... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

structure and liquidity policies—for tax or agency reasons—appears to be a key driver of their decision to simultaneously raise and pay out capital. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48383 Online... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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