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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
world needs principled leaders. Business has become one of the most dynamic forces in our society. If you look at what our graduates are asked to do, you will find them holding influential positions on the boards of major nonprofit and... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
Group had transformed itself in two decades from a small welding material factory in 1989 to a leading global construction equipment manufacturer with 5 industrial parks in China; 5 R&D and manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
intrinsic economics of the situation led to a major collapse,” explains Sandwen. Almost immediately after the crash, a chastened industry began to emerge. Congress rewrote the tax code and put tax-loss syndicators out of business. The S&L industry tanked, View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
radar technology, which forces planes to fly 50 nautical miles apart and only on predetermined routes. Step Forward: Satellite Tracking Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson, citing air traffic control systems as "one of our biggest... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
management ideas that incorporate these principles. Book link: http://www.tobinproject.org/twobooks/pdf/New_Perspectives_Full_Text.pdf Priced and Unpriced Online Markets Author:Benjamin Edelman Publication:Journal of Economic Perspectives (summer 2009): 21-36 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
and claim the value of their marketplace identities, and that give producers the incentive to respect them." We asked Deighton to elaborate on his ideas. Working Knowledge: You argue that market forces can do a better job than... View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
actually hinder the most important part of problem-solving: actually solving the problem. Research by Ethan Bernstein and colleagues. The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs (34,436) David Yoffie and Michael... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
you’re doing today will change as you evolve. Don’t give the doctors and hospitals a suboptimal experience on their first try with your service. Don’t let the VC hype force you to expand faster than you should. (I say this as a health... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
rights perspective. "We can link the causal effect from the immigrants to the firm trade decisions, even 60 years later.” However, the researchers decided to focus on a specific period in US history in 1942, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, when the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
Competition keeps you hungry. It forces you to continually find new and more cost-effective solutions to business problems. Although there's nothing new in this insight, recent research suggests some often-overlooked ways in which... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
much as many people think. I say that culture is a 5 percent factor, not a 50 percent factor. The issues facing families in business are surprisingly similar across cultures. The way you would go about addressing an issue in a family... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
to present a 3-principle framework we call REVISE. This framework classifies forces that affect dishonesty into three main categories and then redirects those forces to encourage moral behavior. The first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
entrepreneurial ideal of attaining financial success without having to give up the reins of the company. When To Found About 4 to 5 percent of MBA students at HBS decide to leap into entrepreneurship immediately upon graduation, or even... View Details
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
work in exploring the forces that govern the process of CEO change. I have conducted research in four interrelated areas: factors that lead to vacancies in the CEO position; factors that affect the choice of successors; the role of market... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
nation's social enterprise organizations. Today, the United States has more than 1.4 million non-profit organizations, and they account for 5 percent of GDP. Annual contributions have grown faster than the economy for years, and experts... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
her yard. Interested in a “green” career post-HBS, she found it difficult to locate the alumni and networking opportunities that would provide a leg up on the job hunt, so she joined forces with Fishman to create an alumni organization to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
countries and annual revenues in excess of $126 million. The privately financed organization has nearly 5 million members. Under his leadership, the WWF has launched an ambitious new strategy to focus its efforts on protecting nineteen of... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
considerable amount of high-quality research has been done regarding financial stability. Some of these steps were prompted by regulatory changes—or anticipation of such changes. But perhaps the biggest force in stabilizing the financial... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
of the term of the next President. We'll have the mechanism that will bring transparency and have this tax support that will make it possible for people to buy health insurance with pre-tax money. Q: And why are the 5 View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
Press), HBS professor and business historian Nancy Koehn selects contemporaneous news accounts from America’s paper of record to complement her essays on the rise of business in the United States and the influence of business on the country’s evolution. In ten chapters... View Details