Filter Results:
(1,697)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,391)
- People (9)
- News (762)
- Research (1,697)
- Events (16)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (942)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,391)
- People (9)
- News (762)
- Research (1,697)
- Events (16)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (942)
Sort by
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
co-edited with Lina Gálvez-Muñoz, a scholar and lecturer at the University of Reading and University of Seville. The essays in their book, entitled Foreign Multinationals in the United States: Management and Performance, describe the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
275,000 people. The case provides an update on TopCoder's growth and resulting changes in its platform and business model, specifically, its decision to virtualize the project management role. Issues related... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?
The deadline on an important work project is looming, but you keep getting distracted by news stories and silly cat videos online. Even though installing an Internet-blocking app might help you stay focused, you resist the idea, telling... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
it may become part of a larger debate in 2006 about added pressures on managers to produce short-term earnings regardless of the impact on the long-term health of the business. In his annual year-end letter to directors, Martin Lipton, a... View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
this chapter, we share preliminary results from a collaborative project on leadership for innovation. We studied a dozen effective leaders of innovation in a wide range of industries and geographies, posing the following question: what do... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project characteristics which are often hard to measure. Hence, we differentiate "quality... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812096-PDF-ENG Hayman Capital Management Robin Greenwood, Julie Messina, and Jared DourdevilleHarvard Business School Case 212-091 In late December 2011, Hayman Capital founder and portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
years, I believe I have a clear sense of the state of corporate governance in the United States and in much of Western Europe. Not surprisingly, my crystal ball for predicting future developments and demands on boards cannot be so clear. The Language of Global View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
that helps businesses profit from making their buildings carbon neutral. (Not to put too fine a point on it, Teach For America was founded by a woman, and Carbon Lighthouse by two men.) The researchers then developed a five-point commercialization scale, ranging from... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
couldn't still succeed, says John Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a professor of health policy and management at Harvard School of Public Health. The sheer scope of the... View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
potential: (1) project complexity, (2) cross-functionality, (3) temporary membership, (4) fluid team boundaries and (5) embeddedness in organizational structures. We argue that effective management of these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
paradox in a recent paper called "Rich versus King: The Entrepreneur's Dilemma," an early draft of which was featured in the Best Paper Proceedings of the 2006 Academy of Management Conference and the 2005 Babson-Kauffman... View Details
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
(diamonds) and have managed this resource extremely well. Working with De Beers, the government has consistently and strategically limited its sales of diamonds, striving to keep prices steady over the long run rather than maximizing... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
distribution strategy for Glass, a wearable computer that projected information on a display viewable with an upward glance. Options, which were not mutually exclusive, included 1) continuing to sell Glass directly through online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Competition of Countries
economy. Hopefully, I can finish by the late fall of next year. After that, I have in mind another project on U.S. economic management since the New Deal—through the exchange-rate collapse of Nixon, the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
method patents that were litigated compared to patents that were not litigated offer empirical evidence supporting the hypotheses. Cases & Course MaterialsThe AtekPC Project Management Office Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
into their negotiating approach. It's a lesson many companies have learned the hard way. And influence on negotiations need not be driven by an informal, underlying power structure, as U.S. Stone Container Corporation learned. While negotiating the terms of a major... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral finance. The asset management group... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
industries. We exploit data from the U.S. Cluster Mapping Project to examine the effects of agglomeration within regional clusters after controlling for convergence at the region-industry level. Our findings suggest that industries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne