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- 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008
Society to Create Competitive Advantage Harvard Business School Case 307-076 Focuses on the experience of China's largest shirt manufacturer in managing various aspects of government relations in China. Identifies a wide variety of social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
experiment included a computerized task in which participants viewed 20 dots inside a diagonally bisected square. They were told to indicate whether there were more dots on the right side of the square or on the left, and that their... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
was named at the time) buy the Internet media company Excite in the largest Internet merger yet. It's heady stuff for a guy who started out in the unglamorous position of controller of a semiconductor firm after graduating from HBS. But... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)
management diagnostic, an assessment tool designed to help national malaria control programs and ministries of health assess their managerial challenges in a more systematic way. I am also supporting the strengthening of the existing... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
choose one. But if I have to choose one, I would say I enjoyed the case on Nissan Motor, the auto manufacturer that had been turned around by Carlos Ghosn. Ghosn was sent from Renault, the French auto company, which acquired management View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
experience planted a seed for Pomeranz's future research: how to promote financial savings among "microentrepreneurs" such as food cart owners, street vendors, and cosmetics saleswomen, whose income is low and often fluctuates.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
Source: Delpixart There’s a general consensus that Washington is “broken.” But the reason politics doesn’t seem to deliver for citizens anymore may not involve who’s in the White House, which party controls Congress, or even any inherent... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
live shots on big screens across campus. Knowing that the selfie would be temporary made people 1.2 times more likely to take and share a selfie than those in a control group, the researchers found. The promise of temporariness also... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStock Photos] Related Reading How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders What has been your View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
been more desirable, as a policy matter, but is now a missed opportunity. Using this experience on staggered boards as a motivating case study, the article then examines a policy choice regarding Section 203 of the Delaware corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
independent predictor of mental and physical health-such as decreased depression and doctor's visits-over and above mean levels of positive and negative emotion. These results remained robust after controlling for gender, age, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Jake Johnston
becoming a reconnaissance officer responsible for twenty-five pilots, ten Kiowa helicopters, and numerous maintenance personnel. "Our primary job was command and control air support for ground movement," Jake explains. "We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
according to one study—and the limited lifespan of patent rights. What can the pharmaceutical industry and government regulators do to improve conditions? We put your queries to Fred Hassan (MBA 1972), a managing director at Warburg Pincus whose four decades of... View Details
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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
right leadership style by knowing which levers shape organizational capabilities and how to use them Use power and politics to address resistance and maintain control during a transition Understand the link between personal and... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
experiences of General Electric alumni who went to new companies. Among the findings: "Even gifted executives with the best and most admired management training don't necessarily make star CEOs," the authors report. This excerpt... View Details
- 20 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
prior, arriving here with no contacts and no English, ready to start a new life. Seeing her would have been an emotional experience no matter what, but having been supported through chemo for the prior few months, arriving together on the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
foreclosure discounts appear to be related to the threat of vandalism in low-priced neighborhoods. After aggregating to the zip-code level and controlling for regional price trends, the prices of forced sales are mean-reverting, while the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Oded Navon
possibilities out there and puts you on the path to achieve them. Being part of the HBS community is like... ...finding long-lost family members, discovering how much you have in common every day. The section experience makes you so close... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-038.pdf Fluid Teams and Fluid Tasks: The Impact of Team Familiarity and Variation in Experience (revised) Authors: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract In many manufacturing and service... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
Before he launched Harley-Davidson in India, Anoop Prakash (MBA 2001) held business development roles in technology and was a consultant at McKinsey. He also had experience in the public sector and in the US Marine Corps. But he hadn’t... View Details