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  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

One-on-One with Robert McNamara

produce cheaper and better-quality cars than Detroit, and insisted that American consumers would buy small cars. Implementing that heretical idea, McNamara successfully introduced the compact Ford Falcon and even planned to produce a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 02 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 2

the project; the partner was also required to integrate some local smallholders into the production chain. In December 2009, Codevasf was almost ready to start accepting bids for Pontal. For Clementino de Souza Coelho, director of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

Company Harvard Business School Case 307-093 Digital China is the largest Chinese independent systems integrator (IBM and HP are larger). Describes their history and their current strategy and invites the student to advise them as to how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

from the current level of $6,634, the plan included measures to improve human capital, reduce migration, and privatize inefficient government linked corporations (GLCs). However, the most controversial part of the NEM was the dismantling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 6

workers, the middle class, and the nonpolitical rich, jeopardizing the nation's security in the process. The authors contend that this usurpation is the source of America's economic decline and fading international power and provide an action View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

2018 Pearson Education Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan Abstract—Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the cost accounting market and continues to innovate today by consistently View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

of the situation. A resilience regimen of questions that managers can use to reframe negative events and understand their thought processes is explained. Read an excerpt: http://hbr.org/2010/01/how-to-bounce-back-from-adversity/ar/1 Crafting View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

companies offer a direct stake in the company's performance through stock, a share in profits, or both. Companies with employee stock ownership plans report significantly higher sales growth and higher revenue per employee than do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

the parties who are running those organizations, then we should try to see if we can break the cycle with something that lets an organization learn over time,” Bernstein says. “And that would seem to be a more experimental approach than a View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Water for Life

has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details
Keywords: Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

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

break through institutional complacency and unite HKU's oft-divided students, faculty, and administration behind a plan that would allow HKU to thrive in a landscape in which it competed not only with other institutions in Hong Kong, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

Apply the three-step approach to climate adaptation Identify challenges you could encounter proposing adaptation practices within your company Reflect on the issues businesses may face when planning for stressors on a longer time horizon,... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

Balanced Scorecard, to a public school district. As part of a continuous improvement initiative, the Director of Planning and Policy facilitates the development of a strategy map and scorecard for the district. She then helps cascade the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

Abstract Trying to operate two business models at once often causes strategic failure. Yet LAN Airlines, a Chilean carrier, runs three models successfully. Casadesus-Masanell, of Harvard Business School, and Tarziján, of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Next Level

In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 12 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World, and his views on subjects ranging from whether globalism has been a force for good to what Nazi Germany tells us about the difficulty in planning for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

and 90%. Executives can dramatically increase their odds of success, the authors argue, if they understand how to select targets, how much to pay for them, and whether and how to integrate them. The most common reasons for making an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Around the World

about students' "road trip" stories Plan B: The Brick Bank Issue Focus: The Global Manager They Call Him Mr. China Think Locally, Act Globally Bringing Global Back Home HBS celebrated the opening of its newest classroom in early March—in... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

sustainability issues do not significantly outperform firms with poor ratings on the same issues. These results are confirmed when we analyze future changes in accounting performance. The results have implications for asset managers who have committed to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Not to Trust Your Gut

setting deadlines for low-priority tasks, or when you're informally discussing items that you plan to revisit later in more detail, System 1 thought will be sufficient. Taking the time to logically reason through every decision can be... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra