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- 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007
PublicationsAttracting Skeptical Buyers: Negotiating for Intellectual Property Rights Authors:James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao Periodical:International Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract An obstacle to the sale of intellectual property (IP) is that an expropriable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
in setting moral tone.” Stephen Dolle commented, “I see CEO’s speaking on social injustice as a gimmick to cover themselves (on a number of other practices and issues to which Dolle objects).” Those who addressed the question also... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
the book is a sequel to their 2009 work The Adventures of an IT Leader "We hope that this book inspires reflection and makes a contribution to developing our knowledge about CEO leadership in ways that can help us meet the needs of the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
the ones that scare me." These comments raise the question of how much theory tells us about selecting for harder to measure characteristics such as possible behaviors under fire and motives as opposed to skills and past accomplishments. A second group pointed to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report
members Nisha Kumar Behringer (MBA 1995) and Kris Pederson (MBA 1991). The event offered guidance on landing a corporate board seat, what skills boards look for, and the importance of persistence. Key practical insights included:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
who are examining a wide range of climate- and sustainability-related topics. Contributing to this body of knowledge will be the work generated by the BiGS Climate Fellows, who will collaborate with the BEI next year. Additionally, BiGS... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
The occasion? The company, a leading supplier of cloud-based services for electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, was expanding. In a big way. Founded in 1997, athenahealth now serves about 44,000... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Disputes in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers Author:Michel Anteby Publication:Administrative Science Quarterly 55, no. 4 (2010) Abstract This study examines the U.S. commerce in human cadavers for medical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
develop the concept of interconnectedness as four conditions of an internal supply chain: a focus on system-rather than individual department-performance; routines within departments that are connected to current customers' needs; deliberate View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
percent battery power. Your brain is your most vital asset; it is a physical organ that, like any other piece of equipment, requires maintenance and care. Both physical and mental hygiene practices need to increase right now, because both... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
within the firm. The inventor team composition has important consequences for how the new knowledge is exploited within and outside of the firm. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50098 2015 The Cambridge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
open bar happy hours with David Fairhurst, a personal friend he had promoted to oversee human resources, and the two men developed reputations for “flirting with female employees.” HR allegedly didn’t intervene despite knowledge of the... View Details
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Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
be universally available at reasonable cost, creative expression and communication would be enhanced on a scale heretofore considered impossible.” (4) While in his own practice Adams took an active role in all aspects of developing and... View Details
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries, available October 4 from MIT Press. Evans is Managing Director of the Global Competitive Policy Practice at LEGC LLC. Hagiu is a professor in the Strategy unit at Harvard... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
her to solve complex problems. “Being in the protagonist's seat, having access to all this information, and having to make sense of it is the practice that you need in order to be able to make sound judgments,” she said. Years removed... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806207 Winning Legally: Using the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk Harvard Business School Note 806-138 Describes the four components of legal astuteness: the attitudes, proactive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to incentives, dismissals, and promotions; and measurable outcomes, for the firm and for the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
secrets in Your Seat at the Table: How to Create and Run a Peer Advisory Council. This how-to book combines her deep knowledge and experience, along with cautionary and triumphant tales in an easy-to-read style that demystifies the... View Details
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
build successful businesses. The desire to capture the scale of this change is the ambitious goal of Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets project, whose new website was profiled in HBS Working Knowledge last year. The... View Details