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- 19 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book
of us should pay serious attention to. I truly believe business contributes to the prosperity of humanity, and is more important to the continued prosperity of humanity than any other institution. Therefore, we must question what got us... View Details
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012
Cynthia says, "I wanted to pursue a career that would be personally fulfilling. As exciting as product management was, it didn't mesh with my desire to work in the food space." When Path was acquired in 2015, she had the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
success in either strategy or implementation requires making trade-offs. In the absence of those trade-offs, you have a lot of mediocrity. RS: I would also tell the CEO that he or she needs to take a hard and deep look at what’s happening in terms of View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
the integrity of his business and has successfully defended Riverdale against allegations of workplace violations launched by OSHA and the EPA. His epic battle with the EPA, which began with the agency’s armed raid on the factory in 1997, attracted the View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
the political and economic turmoil following the fall of the Berlin Wall, he urged GM's senior management to locate a new plant for the company's Opel line in the East German town of Eisenach. Eisenach seemed a long shot at best. Even... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
(www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu) was developed to provide business professionals with critical information and insight into timely management topics and areas that reflect a rapidly changing landscape. Updated regularly, the site... View Details
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
Watkins The best negotiators also work to foster organizational learning, both during and after a negotiation. They pay careful attention to managing the team learning process, establishing clear roles and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
strategy that was explicitly based on the perceived strengths and weaknesses of its competitor, Ford.2 In the 1930s, Chester Barnard, a top executive with AT&T, argued that managers should pay especially close View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
mergers and acquisitions fail to achieve their objectives, suggesting possible remedies to this "flawed process." Kathryn Yates, for example, cited three primary reasons for M&A failure: "1) Forgetting to plan for the cost of integration… 2)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
for Morgan Stanley and leading the Japan office of Clay Finlay, a New York–based asset management company. Matsui was the vice chair for Goldman Sachs Japan and the chief Japan equity strategist. On these birthday-celebration evenings,... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
of both direct and indirect subsidies in industries throughout the world, and careful attention must be paid to the advantages that might accrue to competitors in very subtle ways. Q: To what extent do you think View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
that women and children would be hurt in traffic by exiting from the left side. Lara, then a manager of product strategy for Chrysler and the mother of an infant daughter, spoke up. “First of all, we park in parking lots, not traffic.... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention on another locus of learning that has received less attention from academics despite popular interest:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
management system that's held together with baling wire. It's an unacceptable situation that will require sustained attention and support over time to correct. Tell us about your modernizing effort and its... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
drive-through restaurant with low prices that appealed to working-class families. “The company has built its brand around family dining, so that is especially important to its culture,” explains Paine. Despite its ubiquity, McDonald’s View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
stellar cast of practitioners, management researchers, and business and environmental historians. As co-organizer of the event with HBS Professor Amy Edmondson and Swedish business historian Anki Bergquist, I was thrilled as the... View Details
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Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog
generating commercial returns equal to or greater than conventional businesses. This success has drawn the attention of large multinational corporations, looking at the base of the pyramid for the growth that has become ever more... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we consider how the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
widely accepted and utilized in much of the rest of the world, remain virtually unknown in North America. “I suspect it boils down to the following: Too cheap + too simple = minimal profit. Not my idea of responsible capitalism,” he says. After HBS I took a job out... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Thales to Ochkam. He pays particular attention to the church and how the purpose of medieval philosophy was radically different from that of ancient Greece and Rome. At medieval universities philosophy was a prerequisite to studies in... View Details