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14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

doesn't increase its debt limit on October 17, it will start defaulting on its bills—an unprecedented event in the nation's history. Senior Lecturer Joseph B. Fuller, a member of the School's Entrepreneurial Management Unit and an expert... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

18 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

last project was completed in the 1960s, when California had a much smaller population, with much smaller bank accounts. Woolf Farming & Processing—along with thousands of other farmers—relies on this aging infrastructure. Stuart... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

10 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Governance in India and Around the Globe

Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu are engaged in an ongoing project focused on understanding the convergence (or lack thereof) of corporate governance practices worldwide. That is, rules-on-books regarding corporate governance appear to... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu; Technology

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

Watkins The best negotiators also work to foster organizational learning, both during and after a negotiation. They pay careful attention to managing the team learning process, establishing clear roles and responsibilities for observation... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

juxtaposed the School's historic roots as an institution dedicated to American management practices with the increasingly global nature of business. Today, there's a clear sense that this will be a global century in which economic... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

05 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

requires four seats at least." His current projects include histories of German management thought and German capitalism, but working on the Porsche cases has given him a new appreciation for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

project was born from that feeling, and the belief that the school could convene and analyze and understand in ways we had not taken full advantage of. As Jan and I started looking at the data, a whole set of indicators validated... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

27 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

Business School Case 207-092 How should creditors pursue their claims in a multi-jurisdiction bankruptcy? David Butters, Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, negotiates a restructuring of Navigator Gas Transport, a shipping company that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

businesses reportedly use behavioral economics strategies to guide their decision-making. In his Immersive Field Course at HBS, called "Behavioral Insights," Luca brings students to London to partner on projects with BIT and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

than corporate managers who are trying to move money from "cash cows" to "growth businesses." Q: It sounds like supermarkets and chain stores are starting to dominate wine distribution—Costco is one of the largest wine... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

winning streaks, the number of leaders multiplies along with the momentum of the streak. Winning teams and successful organizations become increasingly less dependent on the person called the commander-in-chief—even though, ironically, the same top View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

19 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

Christopher J. Malloy, along with University of Chicago colleague Andrea Frazzini, investigated the ties between more than 1,800 sell-side analysts and the management of public firms, and the subsequent performance of stock... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

14 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

2getthere, and Cabintaxi. In the past decade PRT projects been weighed for sites as diverse as the docklands in Cardiff, Wales; the airport-to-town route of Ciampino, Italy; and the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. We... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

providers to improve services to Americans. Source: gpointstudio In 2015, there was an average of 6.9 plans to choose from in each state. This fell to 6.5 in 2016, and even before Aetna's decision, the Kaiser Family Foundation projected... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

09 Mar 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade

simulations, but Strategic Brew stands alone in scope. All 940 first-year students play the game simultaneously as part of the required Strategy course. Roughly 40 faculty and project members manage and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education; Food & Beverage

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

"is the extreme form of change that management teams within companies have to go through. The degree to which that change is hard is tied to how well you are doing when you attempt to do something like that within the company.... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

30 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 30

enterprise in management and organization research, the lack of a cohesive knowledge base in this area is concerning. In this chapter, we propose that the underdevelopment of the attendant research infrastructure is an important, but... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

community service projects such as serving as classroom aides in inner-city schools or assisting staff at neighborhood Boys and Girls Clubs. Expansion of the relationship over the ensuing decade found Timberland supplying City Year's... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

United States is no exception. So rather than focus on whether S&P called the downgrade a little too soon, let's focus more on figuring out how to get the US fiscal house in order. robert Steven Kaplan, Professor Of Management... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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