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- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
PublicationsI Moved Your Cheese: For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in Someone Else's Maze Author:Malhotra Deepak Publication:Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2011 Abstract If you were a mouse trapped in a maze and someone kept moving the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
2003 and 2004—the first case where the SEC has allowed an accounting matter to be subject to an advisory vote at an annual meeting. We find evidence suggesting that ESO expensing shareholder proposals affected accounting and compensation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
by Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Takashi Yasui Sato-san’s hospital bed is wedged diagonally across his living room, relics of regular life pushed to the perimeter. For four years the retired accountant traveled back and forth to a... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
pirate—believe it or not, you can look him up—named Black Caesar, who was marauding across Biscayne Bay in the Caribbean and was an escaped slave who was rumored—legend had it that he docked his boat there. And here you have, maybe a... View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
anticipated that digital media using rich profiling data would intrude marketing messaging more deeply and more precisely into consumer lives than broadcast media had been able to do. But the technology that threatened intrusion is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
importance of reinvesting at this point. Q: In this context, you advance an unusual definition of competitiveness. Is that really the fulcrum for your whole project? JR: We define US competitiveness as the ability of firms in the US to succeed in the global marketplace... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
the implications for the economy are so great. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/03/fixing-whats-wrong-with-us-politics/ar/1 Why U.S. Competitiveness Matters to All of Us Author:Nitin Nohria Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
40 percent of the world’s population lives within 60 miles of a coastline, putting wave and tidal power conveniently close to “demand loads” (aka customers). The US Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) estimates... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
to flying my F-16 days. Because no matter how good an F-16 pilot you are, and you can be in it for 20 years, you're going to fly one hour mission, you're going to come back, you're going to sit down, and for four hours, you're going to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
consumer technology - no matter how amazing or elegant - means nothing unless it is useful, convenient, and readily accepted by customers. The fact that his wife's MBA degree didn't ease the drudgery of tracking the family's finances gave... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
noticeably undefined, or is off the beaten path, take the opportunity and run with the confidence that you will always land on your feet and that you will be wiser for the experience, no matter the outcome. Ilene H. Lang (MBA 1973),... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
bottles of correction fluid later, Staples continues to expand. "You have to live the reality," explains Stemberg, "but dream the dream." Yet the plethora of products, services, and satisfied customers is more than even Staples' visionary... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
previously lived outside India rely significantly more on diaspora networks for business leads and financing. This is especially true for entrepreneurs who are based outside software hubs—where getting leads to new businesses and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
a nod: the duelist receiving his weapon. Then he immediately, decisively, knocked Joe down — making sure, of course, that his tiny adversary landed safely on the living room rug. Joe, astonished, climbed back onto his feet. Furious but... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
everyone else, these people have been reflecting on their lives and options. As the Wall Street Journal put it: “A small but substantial sliver of America, however, is doing better than ever using this pause in the typical 24/7 busyness... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Abstract— The IBM PC was the first digital computer platform that was open by as a matter of strategy, not necessity. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the IBM PC as a technical system and set of organization choices in light... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
Thinking Locally? The Influence of Local Communities on Organizations Authors:Christopher Marquis and Julie Battilana Abstract We develop an institutional theory of how local communities continue to matter for organizations, and why... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
that does not come as easily to public company leaders, with the exception of the higher-ambition-type leaders we studied. Public company leaders have the constraints of capital market expectations for short-term quarterly earnings. They View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
to learn from it. In particular, environments where the difference between success and failure is subtle (or a matter of "luck") require that we learn not only from failures, but also from assessing the learning that comes from... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
its exit options from this investment? Should it go in deeper and acquire a larger stake as a "first" step towards an exit? To complicate matters further, JPMP was now managing its Global Fund, whereas its existing stake in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace