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- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
Greenwich, Connecticut, that is considering offering a wholly new line of product to retail investors, namely the ability to invest in the price phenomenon known as momentum. There is a large body of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
’09), “and when I asked my host family what they were planning to do in the context of time lines and schedules, I realized that my tendency toward accomplishment and ambition didn’t seem to match with my family’s outlook on life.” As is... View Details
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
Nohria and colleagues suggests that people are guided by four basic emotional needs, or drives, that are the product of our common evolutionary heritage. These four drives—the “ABCD” of human motivation—are: Acquire. Obtain scarce goods,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
Nohria and colleagues suggests that people are guided by four basic emotional needs, or drives, that are the product of our common evolutionary heritage. These four drives—the “ABCD” of human motivation—are: Acquire. Obtain scarce goods,... View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
after, but there is still plenty of clean business they can." Their experience is supported by companies including GE, Statoil, and Fluor that have drawn a bright line internally against paying to play in foreign countries and that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
chapters in seminars. That so enormous an achievement was the product of lonely research tells what a great scholar Schumpeter was."4 The design of Business Cycles—a three-country study of the United States, Britain, and Germany,... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
production workers) are associated with more autonomy and a wider span of control. By contrast, communication technologies (like data networks) decrease autonomy for both workers and plant managers. Treating technology as endogenous using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
conflict." "The rapid infusers are truly indispensable in cases of massive blood loss," Olga Berg, Director of Development with the non-profit organization Ukraine Medical Consortium, said in a press release, noting that these devices are used by surgeons treating... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
got over that hump, I mean then you’re like wow, we could really build an iconic company that really changes the way that the internet works for the better, kind of fixes a lot of the shortcomings. And I think that as soon as we had that a-ha we were able to really... View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
contact us.” The organization also sent the original letter without the additional line to a different set of delinquent taxpayers, allowing the government to measure the change. The intervention proved to be valuable. More people began... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
When MBAs start the second semester of their second year at Harvard Business School, most have already lined up new jobs--but that doesn't mean they have a clear idea what they want out of the rest of their lives. The same could be said... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
its historic status as a vendor of the Macintosh personal computer (PC) line. Mac sales remained vital to Apple's future, but they now accounted for less than half of its total revenue. The company's line of iPod media players, its iTunes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Decent, affordable, and stable housing is a basic human necessity; it is also a prerequisite for maintaining a productive national work force. The bottom line speaks clearly: there's no place like home. A... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
surprise “Keep America Rolling” zero-percent financing campaign on GM vehicles to keep GM's, and its suppliers', production lines rolling in the face of an unprecedented national crisis. Rick's quick and... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
multinationals toward organization-wide rationalization. Efficiencies and commonalities have emerged, particularly with certain production processes but also in backroom functions such as quality assurance and control. In addition,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
with certain production processes but also in backroom functions such as quality assurance and control. In addition, multinationals have been increasingly pressed to move toward international norms in the area of stakeholder relations... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
they spent enough time understanding what it took to make sure that the specific plans—which products to make in which kind of facility, located where, using which technologies, selling to which customers—were View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the CFO
unable to keep up with demand, and product shortages loom. Inflation is rising. Racial injustice and economic inequality persist. Businesses are adapting to the new dynamic of a remote workforce. HBS faculty members researched these and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
worked one week on, one week off, and in the case of our poultry farm, slept on the farm for days at a stretch to improve biosecurity. It took quite a bit of commitment to distribute food and products across the country, and so many went... View Details