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  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

threats that Brazil faces?" Nonprofit/for-profit Collaboration Professor Diana Barrett teaches Entrepreneurial Management and the course on Leadership, Values and Decision Making. She conducts research on the relationship between View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

steps toward rapprochement in June 2016. The central dilemma is this: whether in light of the existing uncertainties companies operating in both countries can resume their investments and commercial activities, or should decisions be put on hold? What is the best View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

self-report of a licensee. Self-reporting gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

markets and ecosystems through their ability to transfer a package of financial, organizational, and cultural assets, skills, and ideologies across national borders. It argues such firms have been shapers of, as well as responders to,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Dec 2017
  • Blog Post

The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference

(Chief Brand Officer, Uber). Both of them shed light on their current responsibilities and what they are doing to turnaround the culture at Uber. The highlight of this session was when Frances and Boz spoke about how they are not just... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 01 Jan 2011
  • News

Robert Kraft, MBA 1965

community is evident in the halls of medical, educational, and cultural institutions throughout the Boston area. The Kraft Family Blood Lab at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, for example, is one of the largest blood platelet centers in the... View Details
  • Web

Hands-on Learning About Global Markets | MBA

discussing Argentina’s skyrocketing inflation rate with students, Gerardo Lietz notes that they didn’t fully comprehend how it has affected the economy and consumer behaviors until they were in country. “They were surprised by the extent to which the View Details
  • July 2002
  • Case

Introducing ... The XFL!

By: Susan M. Fournier, Stephen A. Greyser and Seth Schulman
When the XFL professional football league debuted on February 3, 2001, it generated a Nielsen rating of 10.1, higher than any nationally televised program in a Saturday evening time slot. The next week, ratings plummeted, and by week nine the XFL game earned the title... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Forecasting and Prediction; Product Positioning; Consumer Behavior; Product Development; Culture; Commercialization
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  • 02 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

actors and entrepreneurs nor purely emergent, but rather embedded in historical and cultural contexts. This would imply that entrepreneurs wishing to create new market categories are circumscribed by historical context and therefore they... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

centuries of animosity. The “shadow of the law” relevant to the substance of the negotiation may be ill-defined or easily misunderstood. Finally, significant cultural differences may obscure common ground that could facilitate a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Career Coach

Kristin Brennan

candidates, and moving across the boundaries of strategy consulting or professional services roles v. operating roles with direct line authority. Prior to her current role, Kristin worked in leadership development within the Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
  • December 2010 (Revised March 2013)
  • Case

Growing Pains at Stroz Friedberg

By: David A. Garvin and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In late spring 2009, Stroz Friedberg co-presidents Edward Stroz and Eric Friedberg had to set growth targets for 2010. The leading global consulting firm they had built specialized in managing digital risk and uncovering digital evidence and had grown very rapidly.... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Change Management; Transition; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Consulting Industry
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  • 01 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

decision-making toward the bottom of the corporate ladder. Communication systems, such as e-mail and instant messaging applications, will push the decision-making process toward the top. And that means developing an IT strategy isn't all... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

of conflict. They recognize the potential for escalation in zero-sum thinking, mutual perceptions of vulnerability, a history of distrust or injury that has transformed perceptions, and cultural misunderstandings. They are also equipped... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

Alumni Books Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk by Gary Antonacci (MBA 1978) (McGraw-Hill) Antonacci explains his investing method, which combines U.S. stock, non-U.S. stock, and aggregate... View Details
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-046.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsBroadcast Television in the Broadband World Harvard Business School Note 707-486 What strategies have the top four (NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX) broadcast television... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 1

their stock recommendations when they have an educational link to the company. A simple portfolio strategy of going long the buy recommendations with school ties and going short buy recommendations without ties earns returns of 6.60% per... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

countries. In his new book, Consumer Capitalism: Politics, Product Markets, and Firm Strategy in France and Germany, Trumbull looks at the implications of this rise of consumer protectionism. Sean Silverthorne: You note that until the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 05 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

large companies around the world, even including Japan where continuity, consensus, and culture have been honored for so long. The questions posed in many of these cases include: What did the board know when? How could it have anticipated... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 10 Jan 2007
  • HBS Case

The Challenge of Managing National Security

Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in 1997 as a member of the Strategy Unit. His special area of interest is examining the interactions that occur between and across the various functional and product boundaries of the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service