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- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
large firms often encounter difficulties in formulating and committing changes due to the complexity in firms' activities. Beyond cognitive limitations, perhaps the most intriguing type of failure is when managers fully understand the nature of the required change, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?
Summing Up There is no shortage of explanations for what seems to be a current bull market in writings about leadership, according to respondents to this column. Charles Cullinane attributes it to the economic and national insecurity that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
hunters with an area in which to hunt wildlife. The government retained a portion of the reserve as the Kruger National Park, which allowed visitors to view wildlife, but banned hunting, in an effort to boost wildlife populations. The KNP... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
large economies for the 2001 to 2005 period. We investigate reasons why Chinese firms are more diversified than companies elsewhere. Design/methodology/approach—We collect data on the number of business segments in which publicly traded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives. Data Sources. Primary data include semi-structured interviews with frontline staff and 1732 staff identified operational failures at 20 U.S. hospitals... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
University of California law professor Jodi Short, and HBS doctoral student Andrea Hugill examined factors such as whether it was more effective to send the same auditors back to a company or send new auditors with each audit. The answer:... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
because venture capitalists repeatedly sell their portfolio companies through acquisitions, venture capitalists may be able to certify the quality of the assets that an outside party is buying because they are "staking their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
economy was managed spectacularly, with inflation brought down to single digits relatively quickly, budget balances within a reasonable ability to pay, and political stability guaranteed by the ANC's (African National Congress)... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
address: that salespeople promoted innovations; that they acted as brokers of information; and that their activities "embodied the spirit of capitalism in popular culture." Could you elaborate on the importance of these themes? A: In the early 20th century, a lot of... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
data (Miguelez and Fink, 2013), Figure 1 shows that America received more than half of migrating inventors from 2000-2010. Figure 1: Migration of inventors, 2000-2010 Immigrants can be found in times of success and times of crisis. Examples include: Among the American... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Business School Case 207-091 Jerzy Peters, Managing Director of Patron Capital Partners, must decide the best investment option on the development of the Odra Polish theater chain and the associated real estate. Capital Field was a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
Lauder, founded Estée Lauder Cosmetics. By the time she retired from public life in the mid-1990s, this company had become one of the largest cosmetics manufacturers in the world and was recognized as one of the leading players in the... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
and CEO Dan Schulman was especially vocal: “This decision reflects PayPal’s deepest values and our strong belief that every person has the right to be treated equally, and with dignity and respect,” he wrote in a statement. As the outcry from the business community... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local or View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
competitive troubles experienced by other food companies such as Barilla in the home country. Like many national brands in Italy, Barilla was being squeezed by private-label products—store brands that had... View Details
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
of all, the studies show. The findings are detailed in the paper Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men, published in the March 2014 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Our paper provides... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
and some 1,000 cases. By the time he became professor emeritus in 1997, he had taught some seven thousand Harvard MBA students and ten thousand Executive Education participants in programs at Soldiers Field and abroad, while advising View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
part from massive outsourcing on the part of companies in developed markets. They were moving production to China in droves because labor was cheap, so the economy grew very, very fast. In the process of becoming the “factory of the... View Details
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
business practices, allowed businesses to connect with students at the individual level. At the same time, the creation of platforms for business-education learning brought system-level improvements. In particular, MCBRE's board of advisors meetings brought together... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace