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- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
antagonists in a tug-of-war. They tend to focus on regulating workers’ behavior, often putting a damper on commitment, innovation, and performance without realizing it. But freedom and control aren’t zero sum, argues the author. By giving... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
strategic aspects of raising money. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208137 Suncor in the Oil Sands Industry Harvard Business School Case 708-023 Describes the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
Working PapersProduct Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges Are the Benefits Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard Abstract The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the interdisciplinary nature of the work... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
entrepreneurs precisely because I know the risks. I think you should not do it precipitously. There's an aphorism in our industry that CEO is the new analyst, because a lot of young people want to be startup CEOs as opposed to taking... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Tarun Abstract—New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don’t yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
governments by oil and gas firms, and negative stock price reactions for affected firms at the announcement of regulations mandating disclosure. This suggests that sample firm managers and their investors perceive that there are private... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
only responded to globalization but also driven and framed it. The study of particular industries over the long term, employing deep archival research on individual firms, has generated unique insights on evolving corporate structures,... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
is to show students as many components of the industry as possible, as well as the management and entrepreneurial skills required to be effective in this field. "We cover everything from small-scale startups on Beacon Hill or Moscow to... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
significant NPE pass-through to end innovators, nor of a positive impact of NPEs on innovation in the industries in which they are most prevalent. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47648... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
response of the U.S. government to the excessive compensation of executives following the market collapse of 2008. In particular, the case focuses on the special committee that was formed to oversee and regulate any financial companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant (Princeton University Press), looks at how craftsmen establish and fulfill professional identity while simultaneously skirting rules against the creation of personal artifacts... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
regulate the industry, and the company became a pioneer in establishing a regulatory model and developing good manufacturing practices for stem cells and human tissue. ViaCord’s first transplant was in 1995, saving the life of a young... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
are impressive as they decrease each year. The business context relates to the particular patients, mostly require cataract or glaucoma surgery and the payer is Medicare/Medicaid, which regulates the price. Yearly decreasing prices make... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
standards play in the globalization of Indian businesses, U.S. businesses, and businesses of other countries? A: This really comes back to what makes India unique. India is having an amazing growth spurt that has led to having global leadership in some View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
faced the challenge of convincing buyers to pay a premium price. Their products originated from a wild resource under government regulations which limited the size of the catch by both the industry and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
digital world," elaborates Upton, a Technology and Operations Management professor with a Ph.D. in industrial engineering. The current initiative began with the refitting of the School with an open architecture using Internet-based... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
industries - aerospace, banking, communications, entertainment, manufacturing, railroads, retailing, and health care - opting to join forces with their former competitors? Is this a repeat of the Eighties or something altogether... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
professional athletes, the top performers in any industry — make all the money. That includes the executive market as well. The irony about pay-for-performance is that pay packages had no built-in control for the general rise in all stock... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a gritty New Delhi suburban View Details