Filter Results:
(867)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,781)
- People (1)
- News (542)
- Research (867)
- Events (10)
- Multimedia (35)
- Faculty Publications (502)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,781)
- People (1)
- News (542)
- Research (867)
- Events (10)
- Multimedia (35)
- Faculty Publications (502)
Sort by
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
Present, and Reconstructing for the Future Authors:Giovanni Gavetti, Daniel Levinthal, and William Ocasio Periodical:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract A Behavioral Theory of the Firm and the broader " Carnegie School" form critical theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
monopoly of nitrates. The Guggenheims invested in Chilean nitrates after synthetics were developed by German chemists. Their strategies to modernize the industry collapsed with the outbreak of the Great Depression, during which Chile... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
solutions—and that doing so can open tremendous growth opportunities for their businesses and the country as a whole. Set in September 2015, this case provides a detailed look at Nigeria's poultry value chain and the complexities of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
a modern enterprise, and encourages an ethic of greedy materialism in which managers are expected to care only about personal financial reward, and in which such human character virtues as honesty and decency are honored only when they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
entrepreneurship and how it shapes and reshapes the modern world. August 2013 HBR Guide to Getting the Mentoring You Need Reaching Your Potential: Know Yourself-and Find Fulfillment By: Kaplan, Robert Steven Abstract—Despite racking up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
world-class business. Following modern management practices, keeping sharp attention to cost control and capital operations, making aggressive entries into international markets, and maintaining a special corporate culture, Chairman Chen... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
modern industrial corporation not only separates decision-making power from the full economic consequences of the corporation's decisions, but it also insulates shareholders from accountability for the consequences of those decisions. So... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
federal laws to monitor competitive practices. Ultimately, her vision for American capitalism bridged a populist preference for proprietary ownership and a progressive impulse toward the modern regulatory state.” Currently, Sawyer is... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
GDP, trade, and the budget. Internationally, Saudi Arabia's Middle East region was a mess; troubles as always with Israel and Palestine, but also with Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Iran. In all of this, a central question loomed: could Saudi Arabia View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
sending appropriate instructions. With modern IT, these tasks are far easier than in the past. Morgantown's system attracted early complaints for its cost and visual intrusion. But Morgantown's PRT stacks up well against decades of... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
the revolution in finance in the 1960s and 1970s when the modern approaches to finance were coming into vogue. Consistent with Kuhn's (1996) Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the established profession and the established journals... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
309-073 Brief political, economic, and social timeline of China from 1949 to present to give context on and provide overview of modern Chinese history. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
Case 317-011 AEEC: Becoming an Innovation Catalyst No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317011-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-116 Helena Rubinstein: Making Up the Modern Woman This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
from the right. And not just the American state, but the size of modern states. Coming to terms with that is part of the debate that we're having. Desai: In the broad sweep of history, US history can be characterized by, first, the shift... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
hearts. That is what health tech entrepreneur turned public leader Todd Park said, and I agree. Hire people with a set of modern skills around user-centered design, product management, UX and UI, or software engineering, and who have... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
the capabilities they need. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52603 September 2017 Current History China Gambles on Modernizing Through Urbanization By: Looney, Kristen, and Meg Rithmire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
overcome the organizational blocks that impede the potential of all people who work in modern organizations. While this module is designed to be used alone, it is part of the Management Control Systems series. The series forms a complete... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
supported by numerous examples of government intervention that has triggered the growth of a venture capital sector. For instance, the Small Business Investment Company [SBIC] program in the United States led to the formation of the infrastructure for much of the View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
communications in a modern organization. We analyze a dataset with millions of electronic mail messages, calendar meetings and teleconferences for many thousands of employees of a single, multidivisional firm during a three-month period... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace