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- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
entitled We Shall Not Surrender this Television Station. As Tom Wolfe says, who needs fiction with reality like this! Writing and teaching a case with material like this is a real pleasure. Q: Can you identify the key miscalculations made... View Details
- 08 Feb 2017
- News
How Immigrants Changed the Geography of Innovation
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
case has been interesting, Berg notes. Once, during an MBA class attended by Lincoln's president, a student declared that he had high regard for Lincoln but he preferred three-piece suits and executive dining halls to eating in a company... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 21 Jan 2022
- News
A Leader’s Handbook for Managing Culture
- 02 Dec 2010
- What Do You Think?
Making Right Choices: Art or Science?
using art to sharpen the intuitiveness that goes into the moment of choice." Others maintained that choosing is neither an art nor a science. Laurence McKinney said, "We ultimately base our decisions on 'feelings'" and emotions, aided View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
The risk taken in a politician’s private investment portfolio is a strong indicator of whether that person will cross legal or ethical lines in office. The riskier the portfolio, the more likely the lawmaker will be involved in at least one scandal, according to new... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
Summing Up To remain sane and relevant, must we smell the flowers as well as the ozone? This month's question of how much obsolescence business and society (and by implication, we as managers) can absorb brought out both the poets and the... View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical assets View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
links between satisfied employees and satisfied customers have on practitioners? Jim Heskett: While we don't spend any time tracking the impact, Earl and I (as well as our coauthors who, over the years, have included Chris Hart, Len Schlesinger, Gary Loveman, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
directly to negotiations," says Wheeler, whose own background is in law and policy analysis. "I'm not speaking metaphorically. By emulating what jazz masters do, we all can become better negotiators." Indeed, the late diplomat Richard... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
In 1999, Tom Herman and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, best friends since childhood, quit their comfortable jobs to start govWorks, with millions of VC dollars to back them up. Their goal was nothing if not grandiose: to use Internet payment... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
Kamal Gupta put it this way: "Investors care two hoots about it as long as the company is doing well and rewarding them well." There was concern that the legislation might actually have the opposite effect of what was intended. View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
cannot afford not to do so. I present several case studies, such as on basketball's LeBron James and actor Tom Cruise, that vividly illustrate the ongoing tug-of-war between stars and entertainment companies, with each party vying for a... View Details
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
began to appear in the 1990s, with French historian Laurence Fontaine's Histoire du colportage en Europe: XVe-XIXe siècle, a work translated into English and published by Duke University Press as History of Pedlars in Europe in 1996. This... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
initiative's rapid progress has been aided greatly by the strength of the technology groundwork that has been established at the School over the past few decades. "This is not something brand new," notes Professor F. Warren McFarlan,... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
linkages he saw and analyzed. “Al Chandler had one of the best darn smiles this side of the Continental Divide." —Nancy F. Koehn Second, he wrote about the past but this work was always anchored by his own eye on the present. Al... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2014
- News
Whalen: Dow Should Give Money Back to Shareholders
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
the words of my colleague Tom Eisenmann, the "get big fast" strategy by focusing on core activities while doing the rest by partnering with others, including... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
"leverage" that technology can provide, commenting that "who says that if I want to service my client I have to be at my desk in my office?" Tom Dolembo, who has "no choice but to be 24/7 and technologically... View Details