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- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
otherwise, the campus is comparable in population to a small town or a neighborhood in a large city, and to the latter in area. Unlike most towns and neighborhoods, the campus has, however, almost no signage to guide visitors.... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
David LaneHarvard Business School Case 810-075 Iqbal Quadir, a former New York investment banker, set about to bring universal telecommunications to his native Bangladesh. He was convinced that GSM, the same... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2007
- HBS Case
How Magazine Luiza Courts the Poor
The inspiration for a new case can strike at any time. For Harvard Business School professor Frances X. Frei, the time and place was one morning at home while reading The New View Details
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
performance and succession, corporate strategy, and executive compensation. In a recent interview at Harvard Business School, governance expert Jay Lorsch, the School's Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, offered his insights. Jim Aisner: According to an... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
so doing, introduce a set of new research questions to examine. We believe that these alternative questions offer great promise for understanding and, ultimately, guiding possible corporate social initiatives. We conclude the discussion... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
Financial and Accounting Standards Board, new New York Stock Exchange rulings regarding board composition and other matters, and a Corporate and Auditing Accountability,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
Wharton School as well as Columbia Business School’s Oded Netzer and Nachum Sicherman to develop the model that identifies routine users and their value. Not all rides are routines To track how targeting routines may work, the authors teamed up with a rideshare company... View Details
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
their areas of expertise, have attempted to influence the debate through opinion pieces in major newspapers. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, HBS professor Jay Lorsch and coauthors Martin Lipton and Theodore Mirvis—partners of the New... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209001 The New York Jets—A West Side Story Harvard Business School Case 207-027 In 2005, Jay Cross, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
map of New York to drive in Los Angeles. As examples, the authors cite the ongoing movement for a U.S. balanced budget amendment; the IMF's use of the deficit to assess fiscal prudence; the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
globalization strategy. After explaining the historical origins of France's preeminence in upscale fashion, the case explores the challenges to this position from New York after World War 2, and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
products are secure? As Tim Cook, what else would be on your mind and in your plans? What would you do? Why? What do you think? Reference: Katie Benner, John Markoff, and Nicole Perlroth, Apple’s Newest Challenge: Learning How Government Cracked Its iPhone, The View Details
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
(through some form of sovereign fund) to those economies that are short of it? Is a climate change agreement a pot of gold or only the rainbow? Does it matter? What do you think? To read more: Vikas Bajaj, "In India, a Developing Case of Innovation Envy," The... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
looking at how students are matched with schools. We helped New York City design a new matching system for assigning students to high schools. (Under their old system, 30,000... View Details
- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
the spread of COVID-19—airborne transmission—is largely reduced by wearing face masks, with 78,000 fewer infections in Italy in a month and 66,000 fewer in New York City over a three-week period once masks... View Details
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
Business School Press, forthcoming) as reported in Louis Uchitelle, "Revising a Boardroom Legacy," The New York Times, September 28, 2007, pp. C1 and C5. View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
extreme example of distancing from organizational tensions: They simply decide to work on their own. Naomi Rothman—a colleague at New York University—and I are analyzing data on contingent workers and are... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019). Sarah Kessler, “One Risk of Remote Work: Being Forgotten,” The New York... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
economists, to kidney exchange, and school choice in New York City and Boston. Third-World Multinationals: A Look Back Author:Louis T. Wells Periodical:In Emerging MNEs from Emerging Markets, edited by Ravi... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
Harvard Business School’s Executive Education program: the Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports. “The creative talent brings a unique perspective they have insights that no one else has” Big-name celebrities, including Miami Heat player Dwyane Wade, View Details