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Past Issues - Alumni
Ink’s Wild Ride Over the Top What’s Wrong with Executive Pay? Read All About It! Complete Table of Contents June 2009 Dispatches from the Global Classroom Cynthia Carroll Chief Executive, Anglo American plc Too Big To Fail Four little... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
important technical problems to be solved. Once the problem is solved, the solution in combination with organizational boundaries and property rights can be used to capture a stream of rents. The tools a firm can use to manage bottlenecks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
governance regimes to meaningful transnational regulation. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2178540 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 415-015 Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (A) Valve, one of the world's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
into the workplace means creating a place where it's all right for people to bring their whole selves, with all their talents and complex emotions; where there's enough safety so that people can speak the truth openly at meetings, rather... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
expect we haven’t seen the last of it. When it comes to corruption here, the bad guys don’t even have to be clever. But, to her credit, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is Africa’s first elected female head of state and a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School, has made... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
just floored. We thought, oh, my goodness, he's gonna make it. And his son Ashtyn now is doing really well because Drew had taken parenting classes. He really seems to be pulling his act together. It's going to still be challenging. It's not going to be perfect. But at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
life “a credible example of how an individual, with faith, hard work, love, and support, can achieve her purpose.” — GE Brendan Kennealey Inner-city school founder, social entrepreneur, dreamer Kennealey Brendan Kennealey began to hone his skills as a social... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
conversation in America around small business. Indeed, President Trump’s business background, if applied in the right way, could help him understand the needs of American small business. There are certainly thousands of small businesses... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
this threshold, we find that the third candidate’s presence substantially increases the share of registered citizens who vote for any candidate and reduces the vote share of the top two candidates. It disproportionately harms the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
two questions. First, when (and why) should a company’s strategy be developed by its CEO versus by some outside analyst or other insider? Second, how does strategy interact with vision (in the sense of a strong belief about the right... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
Publisher's link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118788435.html August 2013 Harvard Business Review Why China Can't Innovate By: Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan Abstract—A look at how innovation is happening in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
the company's direction in many locations over a long period. Peter Sands at Standard Chartered Bank worked with his immediate leadership team to define the bank's values and strategic direction and then engaged his top 300 staff in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
governance models, and their integrity.” Immelt, CEO of GE, described his outlook as generally optimistic. Once the crisis is resolved (and, he remarked, “the government always wins” in these situations), the United States can expect at least two quarters of negative... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Houston back to her hometown in 2007. “People in Dallas are truly captivated by this venture,” she notes. The facility, to be named the Perot Science Museum, will be located near the city’s sports arena, a few blocks from the new Dallas Arts District and Victory Park.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
crooks, all fueled by greed, stupidity, and a keen desire to look the other way. And even when they were looking in the right direction, all of these people and entities saw nothing. Gina was the Penn and Teller of misdirection, acting... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Matthew PrebleHarvard Business School Case 912-402 George Weston, CEO of Associated British Foods, and his top executives are deciding how to position the company, a major agribusiness involved in a range... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
estimate the value of the right to determine duration to the buyer, compared to a standard duration. Finally, a counterfactual analysis illustrates why quantifying transaction costs is important for the accurate analysis of welfare.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
of people living in poverty at the bottom of the wealth pyramid, versus the relative handful at the pyramid's peak, represents what is potentially the most explosive socioeconomic challenge facing the world. Now, with markets in the developed economies experiencing... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
have pretty much vanished. In some ways, the prescription drug program is one that should have been introduced by the Democrats years ago because there was a real need for seniors to get drug coverage. It wasn’t right that since 1965,... View Details