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- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
harder to gain credibility with commercial messages. “The sports marketing industry is a global business.” As a result, many of the highest-paid athletes now make more money from endorsements and other commercial activities than from salary and winnings. The majority... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
well as our video-based facial expression sentiment variables, we conducted factor analysis to construct four distinct CEO oral communication “styles,” which we label Expressive, Stern, Dour, and Contented. We also reveal that CEOs who... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
American trade deficit and the price of oil at more than $130 per barrel (at press time) have created an inevitable pool of financial liquidity among oil exporters in the Arabian Gulf. But this era of petrodollar surpluses is markedly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Clayton Christensen. This new category of aircraft, developed out of research done in the mid-1990s by NASA and aircraft-engine manufacturers, tied in well with government-funded efforts to decrease congestion at major hubs by encouraging... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
infrastructure ITG had constructed to support clients with customized software tools and technical support had grown well beyond sustainable levels. With his management team, Gasser had developed a two-part response to the challenge: a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
industry life cycle? Tony Mayo: My research with Nitin Nohria on entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders of the 20th century began with the creation of the Great American Business Leaders database about six years ago. In building the... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet... View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008
these major global players. Taiwan- and Korea-based TFT-LCD flat panels are the critical components in notebook computers, computer monitors, and flat panel televisions from essentially all well known global brands. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
& Gamble, Tata Consultancy Services, IBM, and GE Healthcare have adroitly managed cross-border differences—as well as how other well-known companies have failed at this challenge. Inner Work Life: Understanding the Subtext of Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
indistinguishable from one another. Fabs 4 and 5 both came online in 1979, each more efficient and more expensive than their predecessors. From humble beginnings, manufacturing was well on its way to becoming one of Intel’s competitive... View Details
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Research Resources | Baker Library
a Few Good Women. University Park, Penn.: The Pennsylvania State University Libraries, c2012. United States. President's Commission on the Status of Women. American Women: Report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women.... View Details
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
American business ought to be run, including changes to fiduciary duties, legal liability, takeover rules, and business education, among many other areas." Lorsch and Khurana will air their views in more detail to an academic... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Global Citizen Year Abigail Falik, MBA 2008 Global Citizen Year is building a movement of young Americans who engage in a transformative “bridge year” between high school and college. Global Reference Check Josh Green Claire Levy , MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
underdog to one of the big-three American cell carriers. All of this experience prepared Bond to take on the role she accepted last October: president of Xbox. It was a historic moment for the diversity of the gaming industry and one with... View Details
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
every minute, and he conveyed that....[Y]ou really learned from his passion and from his entrepreneurial fire." 10 Doriot became well known for his Manufacturing course, a second year class he began teaching in 1937. The full year course... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
the African American Student Union hosts the annual Black New Venture Competition to help early-stage Black entrepreneurs further their business concepts. Tom Eisenmann: If you examine a sample of venture capital-backed startups, you’ll... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
leadership of Professor Jim Cash in whose honor we named Cash House on the campus. And Jim has helped us assemble a phenomenal advisory board. And the board consists of individuals like Ken Frazier, the CEO of Merck, Ken Chenault, the former CEO of View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
careers. As alumni returned to campus last fall for reunion, we asked them to tell us about their first jobs and what those experiences taught them. READ MORE Dan Biederman, class of '77. I took a job in the Systems Consulting Firm, View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
data from a large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line managers, we find that several key dimensions of managerial quality, like attention, autonomy, and control, are important for learning-by-doing as well as for overall... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
centers correlated with whether a song achieved eventual commercial success. The OneRepublic song Apologize performed especially well in both the brain scans and the market. "Importantly, Berns and Moore also asked their original... View Details