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- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407062 Liz Claiborne and the New Working Woman Harvard Business School Case 407-060 At age 47, with two decades of experience as a lead designer for a Fortune 500 fashion... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
of society depends on trust. So the zone of sustainable action for a business should be the overlap between ethics and economics. The role of the organization is to ensure that all activity occurs within that overlap; the role of... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
concerns." Discussing these matters recently, Goldberg displays the same high level of energy and determination that have been his hallmarks throughout his life. Born and raised in Fargo, North Dakota, he started working in his father's small hay, feed, and grain... View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
companies will manage the marketing of e-cigarette brands to maximize profitability for their shareholders” The growing sales of electronic cigarettes also caught the attention of regulators. The products had been completely unregulated—they could be advertised on TV... View Details
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
Sweden have received unprecedented support in national elections by running on anti-immigrant platforms. Yet, none of this is new. A century ago, mounting public pressure prompted Congress to pass the Immigration Act of 1924, which ended the View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
and for a broader audience than just theoretical economists. Both, of course, lived to see the age of ninety and then some. And despite their sharply contrasting views of political economics (Friedman regarded Galbraith as a socialist),... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
2015 and 2016 data for about 2,000 refugees between the ages of 18 and 64 at about 30 locations to see if they are employed after 90 days. In Switzerland, the research examines about 4,500 adult asylum seekers in 2015 and 2016 who are... View Details
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
engaging the patient to the point that she may take action that is not in her best interest?” (The American Cancer Society in October pushed back its age for recommended mammograms in part because they can... View Details
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
last project was completed in the 1960s, when California had a much smaller population, with much smaller bank accounts. Woolf Farming & Processing—along with thousands of other farmers—relies on this aging infrastructure. Stuart... View Details
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
away from performance begins at age 4 (when ToM begins to develop), years before children enter puberty. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/chaplin%20norton_2de36765-4cc2-4d54-9c92-4247b2d2a189.pdf August... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
division payoffs, while non-binding talk focusing on competitive reasoning moves parties away from equal divisions. Our two studies allow us to demonstrate that manipulated pre-game talk and spontaneous within-game dialogue lead to the same results. An View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
great they are as individuals, reap the personal benefits of their position, and deftly blunt competition from potential inter-organizational rivals.” His point is that an age of knowledge sharing facilitated by networks negates the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
individual's portfolio to his or her age (young investors should take more risk with stocks) and attitudes toward risk (conservative investors should hold more cash). Research done by Harvard Business School finance professor Luis M.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
praised as the engine of growth of society and castigated for being the source of the weakness of the economy. In this paper, we review the literature on financial innovation and highlight the similarities and differences between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
larger forces that, taken together, have helped fashion business and society today. Overarching themes of her book tackle the corporation writ large, the changing nature of work, and defining moments in technology. What can business... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
the popularity of JALC's events, however, the U.S. audience for jazz is small and aging relative to other music genres. This case asks students to apply marketing principles to the challenge that JALC faces in seeking to expand the reach... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
has been an increase in the use of (the) Internet, and users are well aware of the importance of certain applications and services." AIM agreed that: "compared to dot.com bubble days we are living in a much broader information based View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
want to congratulate you on being the richest man in the world." He had come a long way from $1.20 a week. Not every giant of enterprise started life with a clear idea of where he was heading. When George Eastman was forced to enter the business world at the View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
and studies how they do business. Each of these companies has exceptional practices when it comes to stakeholder management. Whether the stakeholder is an employee, customer, investor, vendor, or even society at large, these companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2024
- Book
Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead
QB can't do it alone; he needs every one of those ten other people to be in it with him. That's part of the magic of team sports: it teaches kids from a very young age that it doesn't matter how good you are (or how good you think you... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman