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- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
made a difference in the world for all time. Dean Nitin Nohria, George F. Baker Professor of Administration: In the face of great odds and through acts of courage and conviction, Mandela transformed a nation and its people. And although... View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
of host countries' investment laws. Second, and perhaps most important, is the very rigid view of contracts that panels have tended to take, even when a host country acts as a result of an economic crisis. A third cause of backlash is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team
managed. We are continuing to work on this topic. Finally, we are working on a paper that examines whether higher-quality colleagues can act as a retention mechanism for knowledge workers. E-mail Boris Groysberg and Linda-Eling Lee. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
you get customers to act in the best interests of the firm? Of my mantras, number one is: Your customer is probably your most powerful asset." To explain how certain companies jump to the head of the pack through good service, she... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
preparing for the innovations that will define the future. This mental balancing act can be one of the toughest of all managerial challenges—it requires executives to explore new opportunities even as they work diligently to exploit... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
will still get high-quality health care, but within a system designed around the concept that tradeoffs exist. When health care organizations act this way, they begin to thrive in unprecedented ways. A: Morriss: Obviously, when your... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
High-Wire Act of Building Sustainable Partnerships Harvard Business School Case 709-411 The case describes the history and business model of Cirque du Soleil (CdS). The case allows for a rich discussion and analysis of Cirque du Soleil's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
severe as they seemed.” Bernstein advises startups that are facing a dwindling talent pool to raise cash—and act quickly. Finding capital when it's least needed can provide a firm with more stability, as well as the ability to offer... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
buy, how we talk, and even how we feel—and use that to make predictions about how we’ll act next. As the field of machine learning (ML) has become increasingly mainstream, says Harvard Business School doctoral student Mike Teodorescu, it... View Details
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
had survived even after multiple mergers and acquisitions—Hoover vacuum cleaners, for example. Analyzing the data, the team found that when two companies merge into one, their preexisting product lines started acting like an old married... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
career relationships help to build up organizations. The study of careers seems to act as a powerful lens for examining the birth of biotech. Higgins, who specializes in research, teaching, and course development surrounding the field of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
misreported due to a series of failures to check manual accounting processes. The situation has been escalated to Vodafone’s audit committee, which expects Colao and his team to act drastically. In the second case, 7 million have been... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
designed to measure creativity. Those who cheated were subsequently more creative than noncheaters, even when we accounted for individual differences in their creative ability (Experiment 1). Using random assignment, we confirmed that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
and make it safe for participants to act effectively on their preferences. Centralized clearinghouses organized around the deferred acceptance algorithm can have these properties, and this has sometimes allowed failed markets to be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
"As organizations have become flatter, those running them are looking for leaders who can see opportunities and address problems that cut across functional boundaries." Even managers in large organizations have to think and act... View Details
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
more complex and the gray areas more prevalent, we need to strengthen individual integrity. We need leaders who are prepared to act on principle, with standards and values to guide them, even in the face of strong financial incentives to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
Sarbanes-Oxley Act is another. Q: What noteworthy differences do you see between the way multinationals operate in the United Kingdom as opposed to the United States? A: There has historically been a considerable difference between U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2003
- What Do You Think?
Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?
responsibility of business leaders (in both the U.S. and E.U.) to take charge of the situation. We cannot allow politicians to act alone in their never-ending quest for votes and popularity." C. J. Cullinane, without being specific,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
them is whether to hire or fire a CEO," said Kapoor. "With so much information coming to them about a company, and so few outlets for them to act on that information, it makes it more likely that they will press that button at... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
cross-listed firms that violate the law. What can be done to rectify this situation? Doesn't this undercut one of the supposedly main benefits of listing in this country? Jordan Siegel: The SEC faces two primary challenges. One is that it is still severely resource... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen