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- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
This is an age-old problem that most managers handle badly. You know the story by now. It concerns high-performing employees, known by some as "stars" and by others as "destructive heroes" or "brilliant... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
four firms account for 75 percent of the Australian market. Research by my colleagues Jan Rivkin and Tarun Khanna suggests that industry structure can be quite different around the world. View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Competition of Countries
Countries, like companies, need development strategies to succeed in a world of growing globalization. Professor Richard H. K. Vietor is an expert on business regulation and the international political economy. Vietor has taught at... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
that our most important asset is our brain, which makes it easy to take for granted the people, platforms, processes, products, and politics that create the context for our View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
making that, too, an essentially stock-financed transaction. Many of Livedoor's acquisitions were great companies, and continued to perform well under the Livedoor brand. This probably explains why View Details
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
their numbers, but they weren’t a good corporate citizen essentially,” Minor says. “So what he basically says is you have to close your eyes to their great productivity and have the courage just to terminate... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Bringing Out the Best
relatively young leaders. It’s a huge priority to understand what motivates and concerns them,” she notes. Curry says she values great leadership and agrees with Dean Nitin Nohria’s observations about the... View Details
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
experience and rather disappointing professional careers. One can check this easily by searching on Google the members of the new government. My sense is that 2015 will be another year of View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- June 2002 (Revised November 2005)
- Case
Life, Death, and Property Rights: The Pharmaceutical Industry Faces AIDS in Africa
By: Debora L. Spar
In the final years of the 20th century, the world was hit by a plague of epidemic proportions--AIDS, a life-threatening disease that remained stubbornly immune to any cure or vaccine. In the developed nations of the West, AIDS was slowly brought under control through a... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Health Pandemics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Pharmaceutical Industry; Africa
Spar, Debora L., and Nick Bartlett. "Life, Death, and Property Rights: The Pharmaceutical Industry Faces AIDS in Africa." Harvard Business School Case 702-049, June 2002. (Revised November 2005.)
- 21 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 1: HBS/HKS Faculty Reflections
slender sprout that was planted in the midst of the Great Recession has given flower to a strikingly successful, robust program that sets the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Results are in!
Thanks to the generosity of over 12,000 alumni and friends—and the help of more than 1,000 fundraising volunteers—fiscal year 2011 was a great success. Here are a few... View Details
- December 2007 (Revised December 2021)
- Case
The South Sea Company (A)
By: David A. Moss, Eugene Kintgen, Agnieszka Rafalska and Kimberly Hagan
In early 1720, the South Sea Company and the Bank of England were cometing for the right to issue new shares and to exchange those shares for government bons that were then in the hands of the public. The British government had already executed two such debt conversion... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Debt Securities; Stock Shares; Financial Strategy; Bids and Bidding; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Great Britain
Moss, David A., Eugene Kintgen, Agnieszka Rafalska, and Kimberly Hagan. "The South Sea Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 708-005, December 2007. (Revised December 2021.)
- 07 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Steve Jobs Legacy
businesses and governments. Would you expect any less from a mighty prophet? Robert Higgins (Entrepreneurial Management) Steve Jobs will be remembered as the Great Innovator of our age. It is no wonder that... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
the supply-demand ratio for talent? Will the need for recognition and advancement on the job lure people back to the office? Or have View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997) “Everyone deserves a fair start regardless of their zip code,” says Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997). Reforming that start is what motivates her. “The effects of income disparity start early in our society, and education is View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 24 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World
Roaring 20s and Great Depression. A stable and supportive marriage was a rock, as was a friend who helped him see and spread the idea that alcoholism wasn’t a moral failing, but a disease. Once sober, Wilson... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
place had it not been for us. And the second thing that gives me a great deal of satisfaction is the franchise opportunity that got created as a result of View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
thinking,” Kang said to laughter. “It’s another online dating site.” But VC firms have shown a great deal of interest—almost $150 million worth since early 2010—in the revitalized online dating sector, which... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Back from the Brink
buyout of ZeroChaos in 2004, Mills projects the firm to be a $1 billion operation by 2010. “It’s always a great discussion to have with your wife when you’ve got three kids and a mortgage, but she was View Details
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
high, it's when the change is high—when credit is expanding a lot faster than the economy. That is when you should watch out. Layne: What can we learn from these patterns now? Greenwood: I think View Details