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- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
entrepreneurs, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn. In Part One of a discussion about her recent book—in the April 16 issue of HBS Working Knowledge—Koehn described the brand-building savvy of three entrepreneurs in the past, as well as their clear lessons for View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
senior executives specializing in everything except sales. “The number of executives reporting to the CEO in the average S&P 500 company has doubled in the last 20 years,” says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
included virtual onboarding, sales-pipeline restructuring, performance management, M&A acquisition, managing layoffs and furloughs, rethinking the customer experience, and creating financial projections with an unprecedented number of... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
buyout market: RLBOs performed strongly in the late 1980s, the mid-1990s, and the 2000s. Large RLBOs that are backed by private equity firms with more capital under management perform better. We also find the so-called quick flips—when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
tripwire that is often triggered before a person crosses the line and violates the law. A manager who becomes accustomed to disregarding his or her inner voice in the name of shareholders is more likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
visual and econometric evidence now backs it up. But it moves the question from how to develop your isolated internal R&D function to how to manage a collection of transient professionals who are... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
the results of his inquiry in a new book The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World, which deals head on with the growing management complexities in the new economy. “What's going on now is a return to an earlier... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
began to emerge, first in the United States and then in Europe: the vertically integrated, multidivisional (or "M-form") corporation that made large investments in manufacturing and marketing and in management hierarchies to... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
Introduces students to the concepts covered in the Managing in the Information Age module on Enterprise IT. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608075 Managing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
influence that activist investors such as Icahn are gaining on Wall Street.) Carl Icahn made news last month when he announced he had accumulated a large ownership stake in American International Group (AIG) and said he wanted the company split up. His letter making... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
member to discover how and whether his employees can speed up cleaning, checking, restocking, and refueling. Expert commentary comes from Atilla Korkmazoglu, president of ground handling and cargo operations at Celebi Aviation Holding, and Vikram Oberoi, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
of investing at home than those where external managers are involved. At the same time, SWFs with external managers tend to invest in lower P/E industries, which see an increase in the P/E ratios in the year... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
a purist when it comes to principles. To me, free trade is always superior to managed trade because it is always more efficient Trade policy is essentially political, not economic It’s also relevant to ask which time horizon governs such... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
Electric—described how American business raises public suspicions and loses public support: "[T]he law is not a satisfactory censor," he said. "It functions in the clear light of wrong-doing—things so wrong that the... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
spend between these 4 boxes - is a Corporate/Board function if only because their primary role is to mediate between the needs of the different Biz/Op units within the corporate structure." If top-down approaches to the resource... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
Economics; Brigitte C. Madrian, Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Harvard Kennedy School; and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds, with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA. The team has completed... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
crossed with small incentive (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open a bank savings account. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings account in the full sample but do find modest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
specialized groups working independently of one another. The 'modules' could then be connected and (in theory at least) would function seamlessly, as long as they conformed to a predetermined set of design rules." In addition, module... View Details
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
Where once "corporate giving" meant writing an annual check to a favorite charity, more recently businesses and nonprofit organizations (NPOs) have joined forces to achieve their separate, but related missions. When these partnerships View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
both nature and humankind. We asked a group of Harvard Business School faculty members to offer their views on the many facets of "going green." Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor Of Leadership And Management The world's cities are... View Details