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- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
potential amount of money that could be devoted to venture capital." Although little has been written about Doriot to date, he was one of the 20th-century's visionary thinkers. Based on his personal background and intellectual breadth, he quickly grasped the... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
professor and consultant. In these twenty-two-plus years in the field, in addition to the research and writing I have done, I have worked with families in business from over sixty countries. I have traveled to nearly every corner of the... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
around the globe. As he considers 3i's performance through the first quarter of 2006 (3i's fiscal year 2006), he must balance his satisfaction at the firm's results and progress in the recent buoyant market with the question of whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Harvard Business School Case 309-088 College Summit, a nonprofit organization "committed to the day when every student who can make it in college makes it to college," was faced with an important strategic decision. After growing rapidly at more than 30% a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Japan. An entire system of governance was blown away. In 1911, an imperial tradition of more than 2,000 years ended. After the subsequent disasters of world war and Maoist utopianism, China was an impoverished third world economy holding... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
technologies, demographic shifts, and consumption trends. They can't develop truly global organizations that operate effortlessly across borders. And they find it tough to ensure that their people adhere to values and ethics. The world... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
a short case that presents the idea for a new business in the global art market and asks students to evaluate whether it will work, given the structure and unique workings of the art market. Paddle8 is a New York-based startup that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
and Hiring By: Stanton, Christopher T., and Catherine Thomas Abstract—New employers in a global online labor market are less likely to hire and, when they do, pay higher hourly wages than employers with market experience. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
less common as manufacturing loses influence, in the following email Q&A Anteby explains that moral gray zones operate everywhere, at all levels of organizations. What's more, they will probably remain strong in the years to come.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2024
- Book
Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead
global executive and coaching experience—explains how people can use these five Cs to find their own “treasure,” that personal or professional achievement that spells success in their own eyes and have greater impact in the world. The... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
Right, a new book by HBS research associate Gorick Ng. Educated during the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, the class of 2021 concludes an unusual academic experience only to face an unsteady global economy. Ng’s book sets out to help these... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
It was a brief dalliance, just a few weeks in length, over text and video only. The end of the affair was nonetheless just the beginning for Stephen Easterbrook, the McDonald’s CEO who went from being hailed as the company’s “savior” by doubling its share price in less... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
Network-weaving Organizations in the Global Interstate Network Authors:Paul Ingram and Magnus Thor Torfason Publication:Administrative Science Quarterly 55, no. 4 (December 2010) Abstract This article examines the population dynamics and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
of chains in addition to exchanges. This review is designed to provide insight into the challenges that face the emerging national KPD system in the U.S., now five years into its development. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
promoted young executives—often around thirty years of age—to run whole companies. The chief auditor of one of the premier machine engineering companies in Germany in the early 1920s was barely thirty years... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne