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- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
we argue that this persistence fundamentally changes the environment in which legislation is made. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/DynamicsOfFirmLobbying.pdf August 2013 Industrial and Corporate Change Industrial Policy and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
professor Nancy Koehn, pointing out that women played key roles in the early American economy through the development of cottage industries and in the organization and work of benevolent societies. The exhibit does a wonderful job in... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
business community was swift and dramatic. Deutsche Bank froze the creation of 250 jobs in Cary. More than 100 business leaders, many from well-known companies, signed a letter to Gov. McCrory opposing the... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
establishments, and they acquire and divest establishments more rapidly. When we consider these additional adjustment margins, net relative job losses at target firms are less than 1% of initial employment. In contrast, the sum of gross... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
people: 1) those who "will never agree with the CEO and are always in the minority," 2) those who help "clean up the decision-making process," and 3) "true 'yes men' ... [who] get the job done." Cheryl Price... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
economies. The conclusion is that it has created jobs on both sides of the border while sharpening the ability of Mexican companies to compete. The Mexican business community is learning to cope not only with foreign competitors, but also... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR
By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane, Susan Pinckney and Alexis Lefort
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 424-004. Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management... View Details
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- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
Kominers: NFTs go mainstream Last year saw a huge spike in the creation and sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), digital ownership records stored on distributed ledgers called blockchains. People bought and traded NFTs of everything from... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
entrepreneurs are critical to innovation and the creation of the next companies like Google, they do not make up a large part of the small businesses community who are seeking loans. Lagace: How does the US small business landscape look... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
Palvia, and Albert L. Harris, 207-224. Marietta, Ga.: Ivy League Publishing, Limited, 2007 Abstract In the early 21st century, IT has become more important than ever. Technology evolution, the creation of new channels to global resource... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
A.S.—(Norway)—The Cenapio Project Harvard Business School Case 806-090 Describes the creation of an open source software venture in Norway, Australia, and the United States that lands a strategic OEM deal with a leading Japanese... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
history to the future improvement of business management, HBS on Thursday announced the creation of the Business History Initiative, a multidisciplinary research and teaching effort that will take its place alongside five other... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant (Princeton University Press), looks at how craftsmen establish and fulfill professional identity while simultaneously skirting rules against the creation of personal artifacts... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
performance, in whatever way one chooses to define performance (for example, quality of life, or value creation for all entities), and provides access to that causal link. Integrity is thus a factor of production as important as knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
for the creation of jobs and wealth among urban families. Moderator Randall Pinkett of M.I.T. Laboratory Anne Habiby, executive vice president of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
jobs and dignified salaries. As of March 2010, La Fageda has opened up a new production facility to make ice cream in an urban area outside of its well-known agricultural farm. Students are faced with understanding La Fageda's business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
of expansion of the business; their jobs expanded, but their work habits remained the same. These characteristics, residing deep in the culture, affected customer responsiveness, fiscal discipline, quality of managers, and interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
this point before. But we want to review the key differences briefly from the perspective of the CEO because the implications are crucial: for how the job of the senior leader is defined, and for what successful performance in the View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
at baseline (18%, 28%, and 33%, respectively, p0.05 for interaction between race or job type and intervention). Mean calories per beverage decreased similarly over the study period for all racial groups and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne