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- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
Musacchio, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Dante Roscini, conducted the in-depth interviews, often focusing on key moments of transition and decision-making. The just launched website offers access to video clips,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
including Augustine Heard & Co. Thomas Hunt & Co. papers include accounts current, bills, account stock and deliveries, invoice books, day books, sales, and letters sent, illustrating the brisk level of business View Details
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
unlikely issue for professors in a business school to take on, but they say they are lucky that HBS independently funds much of the research conducted by its faculty and doctoral students. That’s important,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
which the art world uses market categories to separate and organize large amounts of information, which in turn allows buyers and sellers to accurately assess the value of various works. This investigation... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
On Eve of Transition, Alumni Conference Set for Hong Kong
corporations who will identify common pitfalls for foreigners trying to conduct business in Greater China. "Connection" known in the West as networking is an important part of HBS alumni conferences. There... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
million Firestone 500 tires at a cost of $150 million after taxes–an action that constituted the largest consumer recall in U.S. history.19 Firestone's move into radials was not only consistent with the company's View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic (In)Congruence in the Helping Process within Organizations
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
later Twitter acquired competing app Periscope and cut off Meerkat’s access to Twitter’s social graph. And then there was the iPhone flashlight app from Noah Corp., which you’ve likely never heard of because Apple now includes a... View Details
- 03 May 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, 1880-1930
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
assessment methodology and business certification standard for gender equality, and Anka Wittenberg, chief diversity officer of technology giant SAP. In addition to becoming one View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 31 Jan 2022
- News
Michael Trejo Brings Business Back to the Valley of the Sun
bring back to my community,” he explained to the magazine. “It was time to come home.” Trejo is now president and CEO of Standard Printing Company, a commercial trade printer located in an industrial... View Details
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
highly unionized, highly paid work force puts in an average workweek of 28.8 hours. To this we could add a second and related practice: Balance work and personal life. Many would claim that the quality of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the School, even as HBS alumni continued to distinguish themselves in the realm of entrepreneurial practice. In 1982, acting on a marketing survey they had conducted as second-year students, David W.... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
It was a brief dalliance, just a few weeks in length, over text and video only. The end of the affair was nonetheless just the beginning for Stephen Easterbrook, the McDonald’s CEO who went from being hailed as the company’s “savior” by... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation
who they were calling on to participate in class in order to provide more equal opportunities in discussion. Lessons learned from the HBS experience can be applied to recruiting events as well. Be aware of allotting candidates equal... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
were not women themselves—it was in the nature of hierarchies in companies and society. Ely: What you're saying is that the discourse on gender partly motivated you to write the book and to think about things differently. The research on... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
- 2009
- Working Paper
Assess, Don't Assume, Part II: Negotiating Implications of Cross-Border Differences in Decision Making, Governance, and Political Economy
When facing a cross-border negotiation, the standard preparatory assessments—of the parties, their interests, their no-deal options, opportunities for and barriers to creating and claiming value, the most promising sequence and process design, etc.—should be... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Corporate Governance; Negotiation Process; Organizational Culture; Business and Government Relations
Sebenius, James K. "Assess, Don't Assume, Part II: Negotiating Implications of Cross-Border Differences in Decision Making, Governance, and Political Economy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-050, December 2009.
- 18 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
Does the federal deficit matter? Oceans of ink track and report this monster tally (current estimates for fiscal year 2006 stand at $260 billion), yet Jerry Green of Harvard Business School and Laurence J.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- December 2014 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World
By: Tom Nicholas and Vasiliki Fouka
By the late nineteenth century scale and managerial hierarchies had extended to several major industrial sectors of the U.S. economy. Although the precise mechanisms often varied, this process mainly involved horizontal integration, some form of legal or administrative... View Details
Keywords: Horizontal Integration; Wealth; Business History; Vertical Integration; Consolidation; Personal Development and Career; Energy Industry; United States
Nicholas, Tom, and Vasiliki Fouka. "John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World." Harvard Business School Case 815-088, December 2014. (Revised March 2018.)