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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era: Lessons from Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft by Alison Davis (MBA 1988) and Matthew Le Merle Cartwright Publishing Over the last 30 years a host of new technologies have begun... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are connected to through their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
another significant advance. For if the mutual fund first empowered the "little guy" by encouraging him to visit Wall Street, the Internet has captured the Street and placed it at his disposal, inside his personal computer. A Nation of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Harvard Business School Case 518-041 The ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament Should the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament gamble most of its player budget on superstar player Rafael Nadal, even after the event’s previous two editions saw Nadal and Roger Federer pull out at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
the insights and observations that you have from discussing it with students, but maybe you could start just by telling us what led you to write this case. George: Well, the Guardian last year broke the story on Facebook being invaded by... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
Innovation Lab. Upon his appointment last year, Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria named innovation, along with globalization and business ethics, as one of the most important focuses of the School for the twenty-first century.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
their own revenue contributions and business expenses in Will. Four times a year, the balances of individual P-Will accounts were converted to real currency and paid out as bonuses. In the last couple of years, about 10 companies,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
describes the events that took place in the run-up to the 2018 Annual General Meeting, the voting outcome, key perspectives on success factors, and the challenges that The Weir Group faced in the near future. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
behavioral health economics, focusing on insurance markets and product markets in health care. We argue that the prevalence of choice difficulties and biases leading to mistakes in these markets establish a special place for them in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
feelings of life satisfaction, we explore when, how, and why time and money impact peoples’ anticipated, momentary, and lasting happiness. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53781 November 2017 Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
development, would likely conclude that business schools inside and outside of the United States exhibit more similarities than differences. Yet the uniqueness of the American business school lies not so much in the widely imitated strategies and practices it has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
the ultimate result being a $40 million deficit. The district had already been placed on financial watch, with the very real possibility of a state takeover looming. Cognetti had been reading about the school district’s woes in the local... View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
firm-driven communication using the brand, my definition of advertising, still has a place for many, many companies. They should track consumer-to-consumer communication, i.e. word-of-mouth, but in some cases with word-of-mouth there’s... View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
strong, talented women. What a better place the world is--and how fortunate I am--when extraordinary women, and indeed all people, can make their full contributions! I’m especially grateful to the folks who have coached me, over the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children Kristof grew up with in rural Yamhill, Oregon—an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and acquisitions are back - with a vengeance - in the 1990s. Across the global business landscape, some $1 trillion in M&A; deals were completed last year. That figure includes one hundred transactions of $1 billion or more in the United... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
across geographies is a fool's errand. Best practices simply don't travel well across borders. That's because conditions not just of economic development but of institutional maturity, educational norms, language, and culture vary enormously from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
attempting disruptive innovation and entrepreneurship in these industries. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812041-PDF-ENG Speeding Ahead to a Better Place Elie Ofek and Alison Berkley WagonfeldHarvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
United States in 2021. The Juneteenth Story provides an accessible introduction for kids to learn about this important American holiday. The Changing C-Suite: Executive Power in Transformation By José Luis Alvarez (PhD OB 1991) and Silviya Svejenova Oxford University... View Details