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23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

hope of creating a company that could command the high valuations seen recently by a number of social networking concerns. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/813147-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-079 The LEGO Group: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

enduring strength of the corporate climate in South Africa, says Eric D. Werker, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. Werker's case study, "Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa," to be published in December,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jan 2020
Op-Ed

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

for All published by the Harvard Business Review. [Image: Hispanolistic] Related Reading Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete Making Health Insurance That Consumers Actually Like What... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration

02 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News

Revelation of Bad News, were published in September. To determine when and why companies engage in this behavior and what it might indicate about their future earnings, the research team examined roughly 70,000 call transcripts from all... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

06 Oct 2011
What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

Moneyball Analytics play a greater role in preparation for management? If so, what should it replace? What do you think? Jim Heskett's latest book,The Culture Cycle, was published in September. Original Article In the past we've discussed... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’

predecessors in a given field. Certainly in business as in education, China has shown innovation through creative adaptation in recent decades, and it now has the capacity to do much more. Reprinted by permission of Harvard Business Review Press. Excerpted from Can... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby & F. Warren McFarlan; Education; Technology

17 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?

having and what isn't." What do you think? Original Article Looking over one of my favorite weekly business magazines published a couple days before the September 11 terrorist attacks in the U.S., I am struck by how dated (and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Oct 2024
Op-Ed

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

published The Emerging Republican Majority, arguing that suburban growth and the professionalization of the economy would usher in a new age of Republican dominance in politics. It was not to be. The share of people living in the suburbs... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

conclusion after studying research published between 1958 and 2001. Their findings were recorded in their paper "Social Issues and Management: Our Lost Cause Found," published by the Journal of... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

relentlessly attacked in the US" while those most affected by the act as implemented express "acquiescence or even mild praise." The paper, SOX after Ten Years: A Multidisciplinary Review, is scheduled to be published later... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

03 Sep 2009
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Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?

organizations known for their prowess in developing their employees have to bear? What do you think? Original Article Last March 25, Jake DeSantis, then an executive vice president with American International Group, published his... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

Authors:Christopher Marquis, Michael Lounsbury, and Royston Greenwood, eds. Publication:Vol. 33, Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011 An abstract is not available at this time. Publisher's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Dec 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Information and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman & Wesley Brandi; Publishing; Publishing

January 1999
Case

Prague Post, The

By: Paul A. Gompers

Lisa Frankenberg, co-founder of the Prague Post, is faced with several business and professional decisions. The English-language paper she founded is under pressure from competition and a Czech Republic recession. She must decide how to return the paper to... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Profit; Competition; Financial Crisis; Personal Development and Career; Publishing Industry; Czech Republic

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Bankruptcy and Restructuring at Marvel Entertainment Group, Teaching Note

By: Benjamin C. Esty

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May 2017
Article

The Reference Wars: Encyclopædia Britannica's Decline and Encarta's Emergence

By: Shane Greenstein

The experience of Encyclopædia Britannica provides the canonical example of the decline of an established firm at the outset of the digital age. Competition from Microsoft’s Encarta in 1993 led to sharp declines in the sales of books, which led to the distressed sale... View Details

Keywords: Digital; Britannica; Diseconomies; Encyclopedias; Applications and Software; Books; Competition; Publishing Industry

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What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the Determinants of Book Reviews

By: Loretti I. Dobrescu, Michael Luca and Alberto Motta

This paper investigates the determinants of expert reviews in the book industry. Reviews are determined not only by the quality of the product, but also by the incentives of the media outlet providing the review. For example, a media outlet may have the incentive to... View Details

Keywords: Quality; Media; Relationships; Marketing Reference Programs; Books; Publishing Industry

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