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- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
that employer’s name on their curriculum vitae? “You have this great name on your CV, and suddenly it goes from being an asset to a liability,” says George Serafeim, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management
McClelland's work on the entrepreneur's alleged "need for achievement," were seminal pieces in this genre. Other traits that have been singled out and cited include a proclivity for risk seeking, an internal locus of control,... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
identity crisis of sorts because their jobs and their family roles no longer allow for the authoritative (some would say patriarchal) roles of the past. To compensate for this felt emasculation on the work... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
Harvard Business School MBA '03 students Raj De Datta, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Meghna Modi recently won the Social Enterprise track of the annual HBS Business Plan contest with their plan for brokering microfinance loans to View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories
to convince consumers to buy luxury goods." The Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe promotes the idea that its products can be handed down from one generation to the next, for example. With such a limitless time frame for enjoyment, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
long-running family agricultural businesses: emphasizing high-quality raw materials, building close relationships with farmers, and spending on vigorous marketing View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
that, few newspapers have the historical cachet of the Washington Post—and therefore more to lose from making the wrong call. So news of the Post's ownership changing hands from the Graham family to Amazon's Jeff Bezos—after seven... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
Siemens, the Deutsche Bank, Dresdner, Bosch, BASF, and so on, all managed to somehow reconstruct and reinvent themselves after these upheavals. So I intended to write a long-term study about a company or... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
preface. Bower is the School’s Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
all-stock deal that is certain to go through, the note defines accouchement effects and describes the fundamental arbitrage relationship between Target and Buyer stock prices.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid
The Medicaid program provides a much needed health insurance safety net for 52 million of our nation's poor and medically needy, but its price tag threatens the financial stability of the states, growing 9.5 percent in 2004 alone—far in... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
project goes poorly, and Hrad is left with the decision of how to rescue the relationship and avoid a similar problem in the future. The case allows the examination of how to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation, the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator is a partnership between the foundation, Harvard Business School, and the Broad Institute of... View Details
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
review sites for family doctors, pediatricians, heart surgeons, psychiatrists and others involved in health care delivery? There are seven key barriers. Some can be overcome by a cleverly designed website,... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
that organizations could motivate employees simply by showing them how their work helped others—in other words, by harnessing and increasing their altruistic capital. In December 2009, the Society for Family... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
in moving out of lower-value into higher-value paths as technologies and markets changed. Before World War II those managers became proficient in monitoring the processes of production and marketing in each... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
and Failures of a Global Entrepreneur Harvard Business School Case 807-045 Bert Twaalfhoven (70; HBS '54) is faced with two offers to acquire the manufacturing holding company he had built up over 40 years. Despite the attractive price... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
family farming; permitting again a form of mixed economy; welcoming international investment on a vast scale; and gradually limiting the state to the role of guiding, rather than running, the economy. The... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
to give their dog to the shelter, we can help them skip the shelter and directly rehome their dog into a new loving family,” says Exley, noting that the program also helps families follow best practices... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
in a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic, and then followed up with regular telephone calls to coordinate counseling, medications, and family support. Overall, outpatient costs... View Details