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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
designers are gathered around a whiteboard creating, rearranging, and discarding brightly colored Post-it notes with black-marker scrawls—for example, “What else can you imagine eating or drinking here?” They View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
fortnight if unexecuted. Bank finance and trade credit had tided Getit through tough times in the past, and Getit still had a Rs 250 million bank line to draw on. Should he take the venture capital investment? And if so, what implications... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
and provide the impetus for evaluating research on disruptive innovation in management and strategy. We trace disruptive innovation theory’s intellectual history, noting both how core principles have crystallized through a process of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
the United States was a highly protected market," declares HBS professor Malcolm Salter, who has tracked the auto industry for decades. "That wasn't because of trade barriers but because gasoline prices were so much lower than... View Details
- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
sales each year? Sunil Gupta, the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, recently wrote a case on Apple Pay and the company’s ambitions of convincing consumers to trade in their real wallets in... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
or entirely missing.— Tarun Khanna Regarding his work on entrepreneurship with Professor Palepu, Khanna notes that "it is important to recognize that emerging economies, unlike those of developed nations, typically lack many of the... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
and using 'money' facilitates the exchange of goods and services. So we are still capitalists " Barry Shere commented that "I do not see how profits are neutered as a result of the pressure on prices and margins per transaction.... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
percent of explained variance) accounted for more than three times the variance compared to owners (11.12 percent). Coaches accounted for 29.08 percent of explained variance, and general managers accounted for 22.43 percent. One can note... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
important contributor to sustained economic growth than such things as openness to trade, a competitive exchange rate, level of foreign investment, or the quality and stability of a country's political institutions. At the risk of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
the social ROI of their services. “We’re helping one of our new clients to quantify the benefit it produces for its stakeholders, which will help in both management and marketing,” Chussil says, noting that the current projects are... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
trade in and out of insurance products and is not subject to regulatory restrictions. Yet, Nephila only capitalizes 1% of the entire catastrophe reinsurance market. What is the best way to grow? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
The Case for Creative Risk-Taking, Even When the Stakes Are High | Working Knowledge
whether surgical training might stifle creativity due to its focus on standardized protocols, strict adherence to established procedures, and hierarchical learning structures. As one of the top-scoring interviewees noted to the research... View Details
- Web
From Concept to Product | Baker Library
eye-catching advertisements and easy-to-read user manuals, and the company distributed cameras and films through dealers and in exhibitions, trade shows, conventions, and theme parks. Polaroid demonstrations took place where cameras were... View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Regression estimates suggest that the relationship between leverage, exchange rate depreciations, and corporate financial distress is time varying. A central finding is that firm size is correlated with corporate distress and, further,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
existence of free trade in labor and capital as well as goods and services between the two countries. Thus, Canada had no financial crisis in 2007-08. Capitalism is a system of governance because it embodies human purposes, which differ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
Editor's note: Please see related story, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It's Effective. To what extent companies contribute to a sustainable society is a question increasingly important, not only to the companies themselves, but also to investors, the countries... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
There is an overall expansion of industrial activity after reform, and highly disaggregated trade data indicate higher exports of new goods. These results suggest that the expansion of multinational activity more than offsets any decline... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
CLARK: John has been very supportive of what we've been doing over the past sixteen months, and he's been actively involved in a couple of our ongoing initiatives. We still meet pretty regularly to compare notes on key topics. There... View Details