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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
defined task groups. Earning from History: Financial Markets and the Approach of World Wars Author:Niall Ferguson Abstract We are living through a paradox—or so it seems. Since September 11, 2001, according to a number of neo-conservative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
In my research, I heard stories of Baxter colleagues providing useful advice regarding which job to take and when, so that they could navigate through that uncertainty. Second, it is evident that having "gone through wars... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
stardom is a team sport. It is not enough to think about hiring talented individuals, companies need to think about how those stars fit into their organization as a whole. The War for Talent continues even during these uncertain times.... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
relative cost analysis is simply to estimate how a company's costs compare to a rival's. Companies examine relative costs for a host of reasons: to anticipate how a rival is likely to react to a price change; to predict how a price war... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Japan. An entire system of governance was blown away. In 1911, an imperial tradition of more than 2,000 years ended. After the subsequent disasters of world war and Maoist utopianism, China was an impoverished third world economy holding... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
exporters have been politically repressive, generous with foreign aid when oil prices are high, and free of civil war; in contrast, the recipients of petro aid were relatively repressive (and peaceful) during the period of high oil prices but subject to civil View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial Administration after World War II. This episode illustrates the increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
did you write this book? Jeffrey Fear: This book began as a very different project. One problem in German history is that a good deal of literature understandably focuses on discrete time periods: Imperial Germany 1871-1914; World War I... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
Huntsman Corporation (A) In July 2007, after several failed attempts to acquire Huntsman Corporation, Hexion/Apollo prevailed in a bidding war for the company and signed a definitive merger agreement. Apollo had down bid Huntsman during... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
War II when the issue became a particular concern. Policy makers considered that existing financial institutions could neither provide the necessary due diligence nor the pool of risk capital that was necessary to spur entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
Critics have denounced this proposal as yet another government intrusion into the market and a futile attempt to "pick winners." What these critics ignore is that the US government has a long history of investing in research that supports innovation in... View Details
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
ties to the rest of the company, so angered Arrow's traditional salesforce that a wall had to be erected between the warring camps. How Leaders Do It For pace-setting companies, the three stages of response to change are much different.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
war years; and innovator Herb Kelleher at Southwest near the end of the century. In this e-mail interview, Mayo, director of the HBS Leadership Initiative and the Thomas S. Murphy Distinguished Research Fellow, discusses how executives... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
post-Cold War period, with an emphasis on the political factors, external and domestic, impeding and contributing to the full realization of the potential of energy ties between Russia and China. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Publication:Journal of Peace Research (forthcoming) Abstract This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic, and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
In June, Professor Joe Bower (with fellow HBS professors Dutch Leonard, David Moss, and Lynn Paine) led an HBS faculty colloquium on "The Future of Market Capitalism." The HBS Alumni Bulletin spoke with Bower shortly after the event. It survived two world... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
As makers of everything engage in an all-out features war to cram the most services, accessories, and functions into a single product, the real question for many is this: Does the consumer really want an all-in-one digital device? A panel... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
says. “Our goal is simply to backpedal away from this narrative that somehow post World War II, in a world where the current household debt drives everything, everything else is relatively inconsequential in macro terms." You Might Also... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
are ignoring the engine that drives it." Gerald Nanninga laments that instead of going to economic war with committed volunteers, " unfortunately, we are building a mercenary culture in the US workplace." As Dennis Hopwood... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett