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- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
that part of what Oprah was offering was a set of insights or connections about what former HBS dean Kim Clark used to call leadership with a small 'l'—individual empowerment, self-improvement, and inspirational lessons for our daily... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
watching me..."). Newspapers with built-in refreshable video. Menus (no more regrets from the waiter that the daily special is sold out). Maps. Camouflage clothing that changes in different lighting (Sahlman again: "So if you... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
can harness volunteer leadership for transformative change; and how professionals can sustain core values in the midst of daily routine. The diverse array of writers with international reputations in their fields makes it the only book of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
struggling with the decision of how to hand over sovereignty to the Iraqi people. Despite daily assassination attempts, tribal warfare, growing violence, and political pressure—at home in Washington, D.C. and abroad—the CPA undertook the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
daily from the borrower's bank account over several months. Given the short loan terms, the rate a small business borrower could pay on an annualized basis is a median of about 50 percent at OnDeck for a business term loan, but can range... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
Will Hurwitz. McDonald’s emerges from a slump With 40,000 mostly franchised restaurants across the world, McDonald’s serves some 63 million customers daily and employs more than 2 million workers. The brothers who founded the chain in... View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
resources available to the company—this includes attracting the best people who like to work for winners. Winners get better deals and are left alone by others who don't want to disrupt the winning. Losing is the exact opposite. The... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
economy in the last hundred-plus years. There was no specific event that brought the Dow over the 20,000 mark last week. Markets exhibit a fairly large degree of short-term volatility, so once you get close to 20,000, normal daily market... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2010," which is compiled by this journal in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. The ten problems and the innovative solutions are discussed in each essay. This particular essay describes research demonstrating the importance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
we all experience some degree of this pressure in our own daily work lives, in this series of studies I examined what happens to team dynamics and performance when the pressure is significantly intensified. Ironically, Gardner found that... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
owned homes or could borrow under such conditions. As a response, the modern housing finance system undergirded by the federal government arose during the New Deal to make credit and liquidity available to people wanting to buy a home.... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
industry. He came to China in 2004 and set up Huaxia dairy farm with the goal to build a world-class dairy farm in China. In 2015, Huaxia had three farms in operation with approximately 20,000 cows (including 7,200 milking cows) and a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
advertising strategy, and leather sourcing issues. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/514078-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-070 The Grommet The Grommet, an online product launch platform, was at the brink of scaling its business. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
daily diary entries and weekly interviews from four project teams, and a separate sample of critical incident interviews, to induce process models of successful and unsuccessful helping episodes. We found that, in unsuccessful episodes,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
that help people solve problems in their daily lives. That investment focus on manufacturing would go against the private equity trend, another factor he considered. But he knew few, if any, general partners at major private equity firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
higher for those in STEM occupations compared to younger workers. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2354963 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 313-071 Día Día Practimercados: Meeting the Daily Needs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
data. First, we use field data on employees' productivity from a mid-size bank in Japan, which we then match with daily weather data to investigate the effect of bad weather conditions (in terms of precipitation, visibility, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
successful rescue. Yet they failed to save anybody. Based on the recollections and daily situational reports of Commodore David Russell, who headed the Royal Navy's rescue mission, the case explores how and why this failure-a classic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
Participation in daily unit management had no effect on unit mortality, while participation in process improvement was positively related to improvement in unit mortality. The positive relationship between collaboration and improvement in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace