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Clear Channel Communications, Inc.

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Carole Winkler

Discusses the rise of Clear Channel Communications, Inc. (CC) as the most important radio broadcasting company in the United States. While CC can look back on a glorious past, it faces a multitude of business issues: radio listenership is in decline, media deregulation... View Details

Keywords: History; Media; Performance Effectiveness; Public Opinion; Business and Government Relations; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States

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05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

the capabilities they need. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52603 September 2017 Current History China Gambles on Modernizing Through Urbanization By: Looney, Kristen, and Meg Rithmire... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jan 2018
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Abstract—The article discusses the notion of advertising as a profession in relation to the impact of digital analytics and data-driven marketing. Topics include the history of internet marketing, the investments of the content-driven... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Sep 2011
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The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

creating effective cultures. A 2010 Conference Board study revealed that only 45 percent of US workers were satisfied with their jobs—the lowest level in the history of the survey. Our Q&A with Heskett begins with that dour figure.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Businessmen and Land Ownership in the Late Nineteenth Century

By: Tom Nicholas

This article analyses the proportions of personal to real estate wealth for a group of 295 businessmen profiled in the Dictionary of business biography. It shows that businessmen who owned land on a large scale in the late nineteenth century were a comparatively small... View Details

Keywords: Ownership; Personal Finance; Property; Biography; History; Acquisition; Wealth; Power and Influence; Status and Position; Integration; Transformation; Market Transactions

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05 Mar 2020
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Real Leaders: Ernest Shackleton Leads a Harrowing Expedition

10 Sep 2021
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The Evolution of Black Friday Shopping — And What 2021 May Bring

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

to their ethical conduct. Scholarly attention to ethics and values does indeed have an impact on business leaders' self-conception and resulting behavior. Q: Corporate social responsibility sounds like something we should all want. Yet... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge... View Details

08 Aug 2006
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Managing Governments: Unilever in India and Turkey, 1950–1980

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones

14 May 2001
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Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition

intellectual resources—using existing knowledge to improve performance or combining strands of knowledge to create something altogether new—can help companies respond to a surprising array of challenges, from fending off smaller, nimbler rivals to integrating View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger

01 Jun 2011
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Who Was George F. Baker?

Related Links Where Conservation Means Business In today’s media-saturated business world, it seems almost incomprehensible that a preeminent financier and philanthropist would remain virtually unknown to... View Details

Keywords: Finance

28 Apr 2020
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"What Yesterday’s Leaders Can Teach Us about Today’s Crisis "

14 Jan 2022
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Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

The COVID-19 pandemic made remote work more the norm than the exception, and now many companies are struggling to map out a hybrid plan that both managers and employees can embrace long term. With return-to-work policies in flux, this is “a fragile period” in which... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Livia Alfonsi , Alex Chan , Jillian Jordan , Amit Goldenberg , Kadeem Noray Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Negotiation and Diplomacy James Sebenius Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 TALK Alison Wood Brooks Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 War & Peace: The Lessons of History... View Details

19 Jan 2024
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The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

companies their firms are issuing securities for—or hope to do business with. The research, "Playing Favorites: Financing Options Sway Analysts' Thinking," was published in the June 2004 edition of Investor Relations Quarterly.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

12 Aug 2020
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Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

assistant professor of finance at Harvard Business School. When they do find out, they often want to sue, but they can’t. Financial services companies require customers to waive their right to litigate and instead resolve their disputes... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

27 Sep 2004
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IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

number of self-identified gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender executives gained 733 percent. Another benefit: "By deliberately seeing ways to more effectively reach a broader range of customers, IBM has seen significant bottom-line results," says Thomas.... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

02 Aug 2004
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Health Care Research and Prospects

As is clear to anyone who pays medical insurance premiums or has undergone any kind of medical procedure, the business of health care is an expensive one. The technology is expensive. The research is expensive. The services are expensive.... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

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