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- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
focused on IT businesses and involved male protagonists. Mends thought it would be exciting to explore a wider range of model companies and leaders, and Koehn, whose work has often focused on entrepreneurs in unconventional settings,... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to share her latest thinking. Her new book, Clearing the Hurdles, co-written with Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, and Patricia G. Greene, will be out in May 2004 from... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
and one lucky family wins the entire amount at the end of the week. What they also learned is that although these funds were intended for building, winnings were often diverted to such other purposes as weddings and celebrations of festivals. View Details
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
psychological research points toward new directions in the understanding of what makes a negotiation work or not work. In an article recently published in the Annual Review of Psychology, HBS Professor Kathleen L. Valley, HBS Senior... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
Harvard College in 1950 and working as a reporter for the Boston Herald, he signed on at the U.S. Department of Labor (he has been a card-carrying member of three different unions) for several years before making an unsuccessful run... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
though "no product has had a more significant impact on the world of business and trade," the personal computer is "still only a precursor to the 'information appliance' that will allow us more flexibility in choosing where we want to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
clinical trials, and unabashedly forces cooperation, collaboration, and openness in and among fields that are sometimes traditionally slow to do that. “We work to see the big picture and then invest our capital in ways that will best... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
for Bankruptcy. Now What? Taking the Long View By: Werker, Eric D., and Benjamin Kennedy Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45603 Working Papers Creating a Design Commons:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
Working PapersDeterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
Herz, he wrote the HBS working paper "Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society" [PDF]. An abridged version of Ebrahim's testimony follows. (The entire testimony is available as a PDF).... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
and fire” companies don’t. So what factors in the family and work environments foster the creation of leaders who share the founders’ entrepreneurial fire? How do some firms manage to bypass or work through... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
the chain best positioned to create a process that benefits all. In this excerpt, Rangan discusses the promise of channel stewardship. (Look for an HBS Working Knowledge interview with Rangan next month.)Senior managers of most of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
When they returned to Hong Kong from the United States in the 1970s to work side by side with their father, the company’s future was uncertain. Under the brothers’ guidance, Li & Fung today is a global leader in consumer goods design,... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
these were German firms, interpreters would quickly claim that these represented a particular German tendency to bureaucracy. Prior to 1945, many German firms actually resisted the expense and burden of implementing these innovations in the interest of more View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
shake my confidence in the industry and its potential to work with entrepreneurs to create massively exciting and valuable companies. There’s just as much entrepreneurial energy out there as there ever has been. If anything, it’s... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About
correct—mistakes we have made. This has not been easy. I will always be deeply grateful for how you worked with us in a spirit of partnership to preserve the ties that bind our community together. In the last month, the University has... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
and worked for Qaddafi’s son Saadi. Within a few days, at Bradley’s request, Frazier had located Gillis and two other journalists being held with her and helped arrange their release. “Making that happen... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
point you decide this man is a story. And it's a story that I want to tell. What convinced you of that? Taylor Becker: Well, I mean, this was definitely something that happened organically over time through working with him—at this point... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
workforces. But working through this process and profitably growing the combined businesses are arguably much easier tasks when the merging parties are financially stronger. American's bankruptcy reorganization (as well as those of... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
try to standardize the work those individuals do. And the net result is that people who have optionality, which tend to be our highest performers, tend to leave the classroom. And so then our average sinks down, because you have the top... View Details