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- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
the middle decades of the twentieth century. In Paths to Power, we trace seven factors that either provided easy access to an insider track to power or functioned as obstacles to success. These include birthplace, nationality, religion,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
last day of class this past spring, "everyone did a double take," Koehn recalls. Oprah Winfrey was in the house. How the icon of daytime television and chief executive of a major media empire came to HBS after three years of... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
or cult of the CEO was "Made in America." But the main point is that we tend to forget that American firms pioneered a vast, bureaucratic, middle management apparatus. As a trick, I've posted General Motor's organizational chart... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
Jones Industrial Average soared amid a “bonkers” real estate market. Professionals have been looking around, and recruiters have data and stories to grab even the most contented employee’s attention. "You could have a two-hour meeting in the View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
SUMMING UP Would More Women in Leadership Help Mitigate #MeToo Concerns? If a good case study is one that splits a class down the middle on an important issue while surfacing creative responses, this month's... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
events seems inconceivable. For decades, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler were American icons, Detroit's fabled Big 3. Responsible for a significant percentage of all American jobs, they lifted countless blue-collar families into the View Details
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
Chinese regulations refusing to allow the firm's stores to use recycled wood, and mandating of animal testing, were challenging to the brand's global natural brand position. The case can be taught both in marketing classes concerned with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that newfound status on the strength of market-stabilizing structural changes that took root after the last crash. "Everything we do... View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
negotiations and auctions are the only two ways in which assets get sold in any market economy. There's a deep literature on each of these mechanisms but very little on the interplay between the two—that messy, murky middle ground where... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
of consumers are more than willing to pay for convenience. Second, the bifurcation of income in the US will accelerate and lead to an even greater need for supermarkets to provide value. Supermarkets have long relied on a high-volume, low-margin model, and the large,... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
specific assumptions about fairness principles or priority criteria, our method offers the designer the flexibility to select his desired criteria and fairness constraints from a broad class of allowable constraints. The method then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
and gas had continued to cripple the middle and lower class as the U.S. economy slowly recovered. At the same time, the U.S. lagged behind developed economies in production of renewable energy. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
School. "There is this real squeeze on certain parts of the community—housing prices are out of sight, the middle class is leaving, and homelessness is a serious problem. This is in the face of great... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
examine a class of dynamic decision-making processes that involve endogenous commitment. Our analysis is relevant to group decision-making settings as well as to hierarchical decision-making settings in which, for example, subordinates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
believe to be systemically significant. Neither is a good or appropriate outcome for the economy or the taxpayer." Finding A Middle Path Neither has to happen, says Moss, who ardently believes that his approach finds a View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
is the only way to identify the whereabouts of the otherwise invisible virus, similar to collecting enemy intelligence in time of war. From its experience with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in 2015, South Korea from... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
students and their middle class and white counterparts, the gap persists. By age nine, African American and Latino students are on average three grade levels behind, and students from low-income communities... View Details
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
BOP," Kash Rangan says. "Yes, economies, and with them, the middle classes in emerging countries, have grown. But inequality within countries has also grown. Globalization has not really hurt those... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
a business opportunity. Walson charged two dollars a month for this service, and by the middle of 1948 had 727 customers. He and other entrepreneurs soon began setting up similar "Community Antenna Television" systems in rural... View Details
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
He grew up in a middle class environment, so he had a reasonably good environment. His mother taught him self-respect, his father was a strict disciplinarian who would engage in whippings in those days. But,... View Details