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- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting LGBTQ friendly companies, while still closely tracking the overall stock market performance. In 2017, bolstered by $3.25 million in seed funding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
increasingly aggressive rival as the century lengthens. These threats will take on many forms including terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and the breakout of wars with the potential to become nuclear exchanges.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
member) Neil E. Harlan (MBA '50). During that leave of absence, he served as Harlan's deputy for management systems at a time when the nation was rapidly developing expensive top-performance weapons systems under exigencies created by the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
technology-driven efforts to sway their votes, and from as far away as Russia, according to US government claims. Social media in general and Facebook specifically were the primary weapons of choice. It worked so well that spending by US... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
explored in this area of study. Still, their work so far makes clear the many opportunities that await companies willing to devote resources to this increasingly important aspect of marketing—and the pitfalls awaiting those that do not. "Proactively managing... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
But if the two greatest challenges of an entrepreneur are finding a massive pain point and hiring enough exceptional talent, remote-first is worth the price as your greatest weapon to address the latter. —Samuel Clemens (MBA 2004), HBS... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
open to altering that point of view in the face of reality. For example, we question whether the Bush administration objectively considered the issue of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq from an objective standpoint (under a veil... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
of mass production more completely than anyone had done before. Until the 19th century, weapons manufacture, like most industries, had been the exclusive domain of skilled craftsmen, whose families had typically been in the trade for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
measure of trust from the mothers, sisters, daughters, and wives living at the compound. The CSTs were able to search adult women for weapons and gather crucial intelligence. They could build relationships—woman to woman—in ways that male... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
in the bud if the United States had handed over administration of the country to the Iraqi opposition. The Americans could have come in, overthrown the regime, spent maybe a few weeks looking for weapons of mass destruction, and then... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/617039-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-060 Napalm: From Soldiers Field to Trang Bang Napalm is one of the most destructive weapons ever to be invented. Yet, at its... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
"P5+1"-the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany-raises challenging questions. Will the initial deal function as a stepping stone toward a more comprehensive deal? Or will it drift into becoming a stopping point that leaves Iran... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
surveys, and content analysis, as well as promising newer methods like experiments, agent-based modeling, and cognitive mapping—we hope to provide the kind of brush clearing that will enable the field to move forward methodologically as well. Business and Low-Income... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
if needed, so we have to be careful not to use up all of our fiscal weapons now. And it’s not only a question of money, it’s also a question of political will. That is, if we've spent however many trillions of dollars on this first phase,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Weapons of Peace by Peter D. Johnston (MBA 1990) Goldrook Publishing What If the Nazis developed the Atom Bomb first? Recovering from gunshot wounds and confined to an ancient English castle, America's top negotiator shares the secrets of... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
be allowed to play. Sanctions add teeth to accountability. But the work should be a motivating opportunity for success rather than a weapon for punishment. Leaders of successful teams and organizations have high standards and punish... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
weapon called life experience. Just Change: How to Collaborate for Lasting Impact by Tynesia Boyea-Robinson (MBA 2005) (Advantage Media Group) Equal access to opportunities for all citizens is the key to a sustainable national economy. To... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Houdt) Thirty or forty angry Afghan police officers crowded into Karim Khoja’s office. Someone had stolen their pay, and the prime suspect was the CEO of Roshan, the company offering the new mobile payment system that was used to process their salaries. Their View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
billions of dollars every year on nuclear weapons they are hoping to never use, so what about spending a couple of billion dollars to build plants, teams, and scientific work and projects to equip ourselves so this never happens again?”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
wouldn’t participate in the protest, and some hurled rocks and other projectiles at those in Go-Jek uniforms caught in the fray. Police wielding semiautomatic weapons were called in to help restore order. What was different in Jakarta... View Details