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- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
of strong ties to resistors accruing to the change agent are weaker and may yet turn into liabilities that reduce the likelihood of change adoption. Analyses of longitudinal data from 68 multi-method case studies of organizational change initiatives conducted at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 2010 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
Paul Bremer at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq
By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Nicholas Henri Taranto
Since becoming the President's envoy responsible for post-war Iraq, Paul Bremer endured many sleepless nights, struggling with the decision of how to hand over sovereignty to the Iraqi people. Despite daily assassination attempts, tribal warfare, growing violence, and... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; International Relations; National Security; Leadership; Crisis Management; Iraq; District of Columbia
Kaplan, Robert Steven, and Nicholas Henri Taranto. "Paul Bremer at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq." Harvard Business School Case 411-010, August 2010. (Revised September 2010.)
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
advertisers. Nor are they the World Cup—the quadrennial single-sport, multi-week championship of professional soccer that commands vast attention in much of the world, but limited interest in the United States. Rather, the Olympics both... View Details
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
the Organizational Behavior Unit at HBS. "And as a result, the resulting policies are defensive in nature, and they don't tend to produce the high quality of relationships that you need across differences. For example, there are some... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
exacerbating urban sprawl, clogged highways, and polluted air. Says Bart Harvey, "The Chamber of Commerce of Orange County, California, one of the wealthier areas in the United States, has approached the Enterprise Foundation for... View Details
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
a national sample of 6,000 life scientists whose careers span more than 20 years. We find sharp gender differences in participation in for-profit ventures, which we measure as the likelihood of joining the scientific advisory board (SAB)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
support functions. Rather than dictating the company-level measures down to the operating units, leaders encourage the operating units to define their own strategy—based on local market conditions, competition, operating technologies, and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Even in the absence of national health coverage, the United States became the world's largest prescription drug market and emerged as the global leader in new drug research and testing. With health benefits... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
of Illusion: American Leadership in the Media Age. The book weaves together insights from economics, leadership studies, history, geopolitics, and national security to make a case for strategic independence and improved leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
This strategic response is more pronounced for vendors whose stocks of patents are small and whose home markets have weak IP systems. Our study is the first to examine the relationship between heterogeneity in national patent systems and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 1988
- Other Unpublished Work
Congressional Testimony on Defense Acquisition Policy - U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Acquisition Policy
By: J. Ronald Fox
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
how much good the donation will achieve. “That gives you some moral wiggle room to pursue the more selfish action,” says Exley, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at HBS. Her research attempts to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
section. They collect only five categories of consumer demographic data: age, sex, income, geography and e-mail. And yet they have been able to garner 70 percent premiums for their demographically targeted adverting. Knight Ridder has been successful in building out... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
autonomy includes the right to relinquish it.” Consumer empowerment is perhaps more evident in the United States than other developed economies served by single-payer national health systems. In the View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
2016 Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development By: Beckert, Sven, and Seth Rockman, eds. Abstract—During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank-are no more likely, on average, to get a negative quality rating than other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
strategies, shortcomings, and achievements play out in the future? How do we imagine this great and resurgent nation with its embedded conflicts and challenges will look in 2034? We examine successively the forces that have made China as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
globally? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518071 Harvard Business School Case 918-041 Happy UAE This case centers on the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) national goal of raising the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract In 1980, India nationalized its large private banks. This induced different bank ownership patterns across different towns,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
Look beyond the United States and Great Britain and you are likely to find networks of companies, from Latin America's grupos to India's business houses and Japan's keiretsu, helping to form the world's economies. For HBS associate... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs