Filter Results:
(1,780)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,780)
- People (2)
- News (583)
- Research (978)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (13)
- Faculty Publications (304)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,780)
- People (2)
- News (583)
- Research (978)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (13)
- Faculty Publications (304)
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
draws on theories of entrepreneurship and history to explore the ways in which historical processes play an integral role in entrepreneurship. It builds off the plea by Joseph Schumpeter for an active exchange between historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
The various components of a channel (whether within a supplier or within a third-party vendor) may be able to improve operations by taking advantage of new technologies, but usually there is no one at the helm guiding the activities of the entire channel. View Details
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
CEO and his team. Q: What caused the failure of Alpha's first attempt at a customer service initiative in the early 1990s? A: Initially, the first CSE [Customer Service Enhancements] initiative was not a failure. It did lead to some... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
Role of Psychological Safety (revised) Authors:Bradley R. Staats, Francesca Gino, and Gary P. Pisano Abstract Prior work examining the relationship of varied experience (i.e., the concurrent completion of multiple tasks) and learning by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
for any big company that would have me. I had no particular interest in trains or railroads, but the Chessie System happened to be hiring at the time.” Chessie and the Seaboard System Railroad combined to become CSX in 1986. In 2003, Ward became chairman, president,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
prevailing research norm. The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities Author:John D. Macomber Publication:Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 23, no. 3 (summer 2011) Abstract Three trends will drive urban... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
boss but a rock star courted by suppliers, shopping center developers, and the media. Josh is eager to step into his father’s role and passionate about the family business. But as he comes of age, starts a family of his own, and works his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
way—flexible work. But flexibility means a lot more than a day or two a week to “work from home”: 93 percent of your employees want more flexibility in when, not just where, they work. They want choice and they are leaving their roles to... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
In mid-2012, Clairemont had invested nearly $75M in Yahoo! after the tech company settled a highly visible proxy fight with prolific activist investor Daniel Loeb of hedge fund Third Point. Since that time, Loeb and his colleagues had joined the board, the company had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
1997, CEO Cor Boonstra abolished the geographic dimension of the matrix as a way of forcing the organization to align itself around global product divisions. Given this long and sometimes painful history, it would be unrealistic for... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
what's driving local firms. Several CEOs have asked us why we emphasize the role of institutional intermediaries and ignore industry factors. They argue that industry structure, such as the degree of... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
benefits associated with IFRS adoption. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-032.pdf The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard Abstract The central role of... View Details
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
Hellenic Bottling Company) and the role of regulation in integrated reporting (Anglo-American). April 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Real Effects of Relational Contracts By: Henderson, Rebecca, Steven Blader, Andrea... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Off Your Shoes: One Man’s Journey from the Boardroom to Bali and Back by Ben Feder (MBA 1991) Radius Book Group A hard-charging CEO of a large enterprise, Feder discovers that he is losing the very things that sustained him over his years... View Details
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument Authors:Bo Becker, Henrik Cronqvist, and Rüdiger Fahlenbrach Abstract Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically presents a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
role (himself MBA '75, PhD '82, he is D'Arbeloff MBA Class of 1955 professor of business administration and cochair of the school's entrepreneurship and service management unit), he pointed out that none of these ideas was a business.... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711491-PDF-ENG The Full Yield Ray A. Goldberg and Noemie DelfassyHarvard Business School Case 911-402 New firm created to provide understanding of the role of food in health and nutrition.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
Apple's strategic moves under the leadership of CEOs Jobs, Sculley, Spindler, Amelio, and (again) Jobs; places those moves in the context of structural features of the evolving PC industry; and covers the iPod and iPhone businesses at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
housing is a problem that increasingly affects companies and employers, as well as the overall economy," says F. Barton Harvey (MBA '74), (see related story) chairman and CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a nationwide housing and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
well prepared, he had to do much better than his fellow white students in order to be accepted, and so he was extremely careful to do those things and not get himself in any kind of trouble, or not fall short. In some ways, I think he felt like he was a View Details