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  • 21 May 2018
  • HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

customer-centric, and how they maintain a link to their past. "It’s one of the very few companies in this world that was started—and reached the top of its industry—twice" “There is this balance between [being] innovative, but... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion
  • 12 Jan 2018
  • Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

Motel in downtown Memphis. Although he was just 39 years old at the time of his death, the autopsy revealed that he had the heart of a 60 year old. Thirteen years leading the civil rights movement, suppressing the fear that accompanied... View Details
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications

"Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications," amid deals-in-the-making. (The most notable of these, Vivendi's acquisition of Canada-based Seagram, was officially announced just after the conference.) But both media chiefs were ably seconded by... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting
  • 14 Sep 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

Xerox’s Anne Mulcahy and Ursula Burns, I have witnessed firsthand just how well they handle extremely stressful situations. For Damore to say women are more neurotic, anxious, and lack tolerance for stress implies that women cannot handle View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 23 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up

Obtaining an image from the Internet is as easy as right-clicking and downloading. We’ve all done it—or, ahem, know someone who has. We rarely think about who created these images or whether we have the rights to use them. This leaves the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing
  • 18 May 2021
  • Book

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

Starting a job can feel like stepping onto a movie set without a script. Everyone knows the plot; the challenge is figuring out the role. Managers often know what they want from top performers but rarely explain it. That perspective... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
  • 29 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

"Is talent management portable?" That's the question asked and answered in a recent Harvard Business Review article discussing issues surrounding how top managers can transfer their skill sets to a new company. The... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment
  • 08 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

100 years. The situation may be due in large part to the role of university-based business education from the founding of the Wharton School in 1881 and continuing right up to the present. According to Khurana, the schools first... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • June 2011 (Revised October 2012)
  • Case

Patagonia Sur: For-Profit Land Conservation in Chile

By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas Ibanez and Jay Verjee
Warren Adams founded Patagonia Sur in 2007 as one of the world's first for-profit land conservation businesses. His goal was to purchase over 100,000 acres of land in southern Chile and to run a variety of sustainable businesses to generate annual returns for... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Environmental Sustainability; Profit; Investment; For-Profit Firms; Entrepreneurship; Investment Return; Revenue; Risk and Uncertainty; Capital; SWOT Analysis; Real Estate Industry; Chile
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  • November 2000 (Revised June 2001)
  • Case

Pokemon: Gotta Catch 'Em All

Pokemon, the colloquial name given to a collection of 150 fantastic, animal-inspired creatures with organic powers and the capacity to evolve, are the stars of video games, trading card games, and TV cartoons. Conceived in Japan in 1996, Pokemon quickly became that... View Details
Keywords: Age; Entertainment; Ethics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Brands and Branding; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Japan; United States
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  • 13 Sep 2006
  • Op-Ed

Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do

Ask any thoughtful corporate board member what they are most concerned about these days, and it is not Sarbanes-Oxley. It is CEO pay. Directors worry because shareholders continue to express outrage, and the media attention to the issue will not go away. Directors are... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch
  • 02 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

truth.") Now research suggests that the federal government might be able to encourage honest reporting simply by moving the signature line to the top of the form, such that signers declare that they will tell the truth rather than that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting
  • 08 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

Are coaches worth the multimillion-dollar salaries they are offered? Is the same true of managers in the business world? Just what is the value of a top manager to the organization and employees? Do baseball managers improve performance?... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 17 Feb 2015
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

was little they could do to address systemic problems of such magnitude. "I think of San Francisco as many layers of communities that see right past each other, but live right on View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • June 2002 (Revised September 2002)
  • Case

Pokemon: Gotta Catch 'Em All (Abridged)

By: Youngme E. Moon
Pokemon, the colloquial name given to a collection of 150 fantastic, animal-inspired creatures with organic powers and the capacity to evolve, are the stars of video games, trading card games, and TV cartoons. Conceived in Japan in 1996, Pokemon quickly became that... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Age; Business or Company Management; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Copyright; Video Game Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Japan; Asia; United States
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  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

significant complementarity between the two. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/InformationSubsidies.pdf 2013 pub Thought Calibration: How Thinking Just the Right Amount Increases One's Influence and Appeal By: Kupor,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 02 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

in much the same way that historical perspectives helped to shape the first generation of endogenous growth theories. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55039 September 21, 2018 Harvard Business Review Innovation Should Be a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

Who achieves success and power in the United States? In the twentieth century, the easiest path to power was available to certain individuals—mainly men, mainly white—who were otherwise favored with the right religious, family,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of modularity on IP protection by formally modeling the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2006
  • Op-Ed

Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

the right thing to do is for shareholders as a whole. This uncertainty is a burden on managers and one that will force them not to choose investments, mergers, and accounting decisions based on the details of their contracts. Rather, they... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis