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- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
Professor of Business Administration: Don't just mourn Nelson Mandela. Learn to be Nelson Mandela. He was the consummate turnaround leader. As the first democratically-elected president of post-apartheid South Africa, he took on and reversed the destructive symptoms of... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
cost? Yes, it probably would be worth it, she says. Should Hollywood sue Bollywood production houses to fight plagiarism? This bet can be a lost cause for American studios. After showing a couple of scenes of the Bollywood version of the... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
the Harvard Kennedy School, where she is the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation. Frances Frei: Ask us for a better version of ourselves It’s hard to overstate the positive business impact of government that embraces... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
was asked to develop and teach my own version of The Moral Leader. Q: Tell us about your version of the course. A: In my design, The Moral Leader is a 13-session seminar, an elective course taken by MBAs in... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
global competition and efficient markets. A rewritten version of an earlier note. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407022 Duane Morris: Balancing Growth and Culture at a Law Firm Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
two-minute version is that after I left HBS I worked at McKinsey down in Texas. I learned two major things while I was there. First, the way to make money in commodities markets is to have superior information, to make better trades, and... View Details
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
The children's classic The Polar Express tells the fanciful story of a young boy's journey to the North Pole on a train filled with chocolate and candy. But when Warner Brothers released a $165 million computer-animated version of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
case presents the predicament of a company trying to do right by its customers and its employees as the economic crisis of 2008 hits home. Fifteen years earlier, this Spanish supermarket chain had adopted its own version of total quality... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
early-stage startup, offers an electronic signature application as a "freemium" product, i.e., users can upgrade from a free basic version to a premium version by paying a subscription fee. Using 9... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
economics, researchers who study leadership argue or assume that individual leaders are surprisingly unimportant. Strikingly, social scientists in every field have identified different versions of the same three forces that, together,... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
three business units, would be affected by a business model change for its largest product that required a change in the timing of revenue recognition. Corporate Learning was in the process of revamping its flagship product, Harvard Manage-Mentor (HMM) from View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
you are saving lives. So it has to have a humanitarian angle to it." (Cipla manufactures generic versions of a number of commonly prescribed medicines and is the world's largest manufacturer of the antiretroviral drugs that fight HIV and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
team. Now Westergren, the founder who has taken over as CEO, is facing even deeper pressures as he finds out about a lawsuit filed by former employees, and he is wondering if it is time to give up on ever achieving his vision. Note: The content of this View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
version of this process enabled IBM to generate more than $15 billion in growth between 2000 and 2005. Cases & Course MaterialsBrummer and the bracNet Investment Harvard Business School Case 309-065 bracNet, a for-profit/nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
see the short video Doing Good by Doing Business. Correction: The original version of this story referred to Inder Kumar Gujral as a president of India. He was a prime minister. View Details
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
plants are a significant determinant of cross-country differences in income per worker. For this purpose, we use a standard version of the neoclassical growth model augmented to incorporate monopolistic competition among heterogeneous... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
chemical company, is in the midst of the first use of a new zero-base budgeting system. The general manager of the division leading the process is experiencing disagreement and conflict among the members of the senior management team. This case describes a difficult... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
what it does. When I presented early versions of this paper, people just couldn't believe the press could actually uncover accounting malfeasance. Of all the papers I've written, this was the one where I had to do the most to convince... View Details
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
individual ethics and as a specific version of a broader argument made for centuries by theorists from Hume to Hayek. I also provide evidence of an example in which real-world policy judgments are consistent with this theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
had sat hidden in a repository called Hanslope Park, 10 miles south of Northampton. (Known colloquially as spook central, it’s the real-life version of the fictionalized intelligence branch in James Bond films, where the government keeps... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel