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- 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008
Working PapersTraveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani Abstract We develop a framework to examine how politicians with short-term electoral pressures control bureaucrats... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
While James Hoagland is correct that in recent years there is a growing tendency to flip or resell buyouts after a rapid turnaround, the general experience is actually quite different. As I mentioned, holding periods and investment time horizons of many successful... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
consumer demand with the industry supply in a sustainable way. AW: What do you anticipate is next for TV and for streaming? JN: There are a couple forces at work. As I mentioned earlier, I think there's still a consumer demand. I think... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
managers and leaders, we serve a constellation of stakeholders, including customers, employees, investors, and suppliers. Part of the challenge of being a manager is handling the competing priorities among these groups. As you have heard me say before, I believe... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
almost 9,000 miles of travel. "I think the logistical challenge that we have today in Brazil is probably bigger than any other country has seen." For Sender, the event has forced a complete rethink of operations at TAM, which flies to 42... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
resource pools, increased corporate operational dependence on IT, and enhanced application opportunities have combined to drive this topic much higher on many companies' agendas. Different companies are impacted in different ways. Embedded in this chapter are two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
defenses aren’t just a test of their mettle or skills—they’re a drain on time and money. “Bad guys have economics, too. They can’t spend all day trying to burn your house down,” says Rothrock. “They’ll go to the next house and try to burn that one down.” Matthew Prince... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
the framework for the firm's culture. "Similarly," he continues, "I decided to lay Greylock's financial foundation by bringing together a group of limited partners who had some relationship with me and often with each other, rather than... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
overseas suppliers. One example is Hasbro, which began sourcing from firms in India, Vietnam, and Mexico in the last five years. Moving existing suppliers out of China. Goertek, a supplier of Google’s Pixel watch, and Foxconn, a... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
under an alias in the polygamous household of a Latter-day Saint leader with five wives and 20 children. Midway through Henrietta’s secret sojourn in the City of the Saints, she was caught up in the Utah War of 1857–1858, President... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
proven method for allocating an organization’s energy, time, and resources across “the three boxes”: the present (keep the current business going), the past (forget what made the business successful), and the future (create the new model).This View Details
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
call that goal the "Utilitarian criterion" after the philosophical framework that supports it. Since pioneering work in the 1970s by Nobel laureate James Mirrlees, the Utilitarian criterion has dominated tax research. It has had enormous... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
for five years before moving over to Xerox in 1978. “I like to learn,” Barron has said. “And I like to do.” That straightforward philosophy led to a multifaceted, 21-year career at Xerox, where she held senior leadership roles in the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
personally transporting several patients to local COVID wards. “Instead of giving people numbers, we do the work for them,” he told India Today. “If someone needs a nebulizer, a medicine or oxygen, we get it to them.” The article goes on to note that Dost has saved... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
success was larger for those that were culturally closer to native whites (i.e., Western and Northern Europeans). These patterns are consistent with a framework in which perceptions of racial threat among native whites lower the barriers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
first two quadrants, locating design near production isn't critical, but separating the two functions is risky in the third and fourth quadrants. This framework will help business leaders make better sourcing decisions and reinvigorate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
objective fluency scores from the language change recipients at five points over a period of two years. Using variable and person-centered exploratory analyses, our results suggest that recipients’ negative affective responses to the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
past five years, I have uncovered hundreds of online advertising scams defrauding thousands of users—not to mention all the web's top merchants. This chapter summarizes some of what I've found—and what users and advertisers can do to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace