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- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
actually makes you better.” An idea taking root Despite the success of his firm, Brown had not been immune to brushes with bias. Growing up in a small segregated town in Florida after World War II, Brown recalled being awestruck by white...
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- 01 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters
findings are particularly relevant at a time when the economy is clouded by recession concerns and companies in industries across the world are searching for ways to instill a spirit of innovation, with Google expecting employees to spend...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
Celebrated for both her outré style and musical prowess, the recording artist known as Lady Gaga is not only one of the world's biggest pop stars, but also one of the most recognized brands. She's garnered five Grammys, holds two spots in...
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- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Corstjens and Rajiv Lal Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012) Abstract Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
are not aligned. "CEOs should be working with both constituencies, insiders and outsiders," says Sadun. "However, if there are governance issues, there might be the possibility that the CEO is in the outside world more for...
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by Michael Blanding
- 15 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer
been adopted by more than 190,000 organizations around the world by 2020. To understand the impact of OHSAS 18001, the researchers obtained the cooperation of several global certification companies to access that data, and combined that...
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by Rachel Layne
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
We all understand at some level that stars in the worlds of film, sports, and even business create results. If you want big box office for Pirates of the Caribbean, it probably pays to sign Johnny Depp to play the lead. But Harvard...
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- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
improve these skills. Constructing a unique dataset consisting of weekly attendance records for 1,179 students, we find that approximately 25% of learners stop attending these programs in the first 10 weeks and that average attendance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?
Summing Up Future Corporate Governance: Different, But More Effective? Shann Turnbull suggests that the world of corporate governance will benefit from the establishment of "a new type of corporate information and control...
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by James Heskett
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
chapters and a more prescriptive style to reflect today's world of expanding globalization, accelerated change, and increased complexity. This excerpt discusses the importance for young managers to continue to develop as professionals via...
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by Linda Hill
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
Advertisement for DuPont Cellophane from The Saturday Evening Post, 1950. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Advertising Department records (Accession 1803), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington,...
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- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
Medical records at a healthcare clinic in Lascahobas, Haiti. Ryan McBain A few years ago, the Boston-based nonprofit health care organization Partners in Health (PIH) set out to quantify the cost of primary care for its...
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- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
associated with the building of industry giants. Overcapacity acquisitions are aimed at reducing capacity and duplication. They happen when the giants must be trimmed down to fit shrinking world markets. Recommendations Acquired companies...
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by Joseph L. Bower
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
tell you that the world of business is not so different. “It really was all about the recognition of and comparison with their peers, and many of them were willing to pay for it.” "This is why MBA programs send out lists of average...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
think? Original Article The week that I write this, I needed help programming a television set for recording purposes. Before being connected with the cable company service representative, I agreed to provide telephonic feedback about the...
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by James Heskett
- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
reception celebrating the release. The library’s late medieval and early Renaissance Italian business records housed in HBS’s Historical Collections in Baker Library are among the largest and most important collections in the View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
and economic histories to illuminate Schumpeter's life and work. A central theme details how Schumpeter's insights help us understand how the forces of capitalism, innovation, and entrepreneurship continue to transform the world today....
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- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,...
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by Rachel Layne
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
Westinghouse, and AT&T), and Telefunken (a joint venture of the two European leaders, Siemens and AEG). After World War II knocked out Telefunken, RCA took the lead in commercializing television worldwide. It was then solely...
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- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
Ask jazz fans the world over to name their favorite compilation, and chances are their response is Kind of Blue. With music that is sophisticated and sublime, spare yet complex, trumpeter and composer Miles Davis (1926-1991) reached...
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