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- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley as a result of poor performance and cultural problems, as well as his relationship to the board of directors. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=405105 Cola View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
Excerpt from Defense Acquisition Reform 1960-2009: An Elusive Goal. Major Weapon Systems Since World War II military research and development (R&D) has constituted a large share of the total federal R&D effort. In 1960, for... View Details
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Why You Might Want to Say Goodbye to the Annual Performance Review | Working Knowledge
Administration, cowrote the cases with Hannah Riley Bowles, the Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School, and Alexis Lefort, a case researcher at HBS. The power of career conversations Performance reviews started in the US... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
personified the success of modern democracy after World War II could have fallen into a state of failure and inertia, with no end in sight. “How do you have this system that’s not meeting the customers’ needs, the citizens’ needs, not... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
becoming increasingly salient, as geopolitical tensions are on the rise. If you think back to the original Space Age, it was all about the Cold War rivalry and the United States and the Soviet Union trying to demonstrate superiority. As... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
exploration of platform battles of the future, including voice wars (Alexa vs. Hey Google vs. Siri), ridesharing and autonomous car platforms, quantum computing, and CRISPR. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
the war ended, Phillips was well positioned to meet the pent-up needs of consumers. His counterpart, Clarence Saunders, who founded Piggly Wiggly, was a consummate Mold-Breaker. He fundamentally revolutionized grocery shopping by... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
renewables, the increasing concern about global warming actually effecting daily lives, major corporate renewable buyers and the war in Ukraine, you have major tailwinds for our industry. Then you add on the passage of the IRA, and the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
bribery but even made it tax deductible until 1999, it was not welcomed in some nations where Siemens did business such as the United States—or in Germany after 2000—but old practices continued. Cooperative management-labor relations, often seen as key to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
entrepreneurship, neither really understanding it nor teaching or researching it in a committed fashion. To its credit, from the School’s earliest years on, Deans Gay, Donham, and David had encouraged research on the importance of innovators to business. Interest... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
the scenes that really stuck with me was in 1942. Your father joins the Merchant Marines and then he's immediately called into service, because we're in the middle of World War II at that point. And then he left you with the Catholic... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
interaction—enthusiastic gamers, a largely oblivious and skeptical public, and occasionally supportive video game publishers who saw marketing opportunities, but didn’t dream bigger. It wasn’t until the 1998 release of StarCraft, a game of View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
needs. Odutola's keen, unwavering interest in improving the infrastructure of Nigeria allowed him to enjoy a successful career in business and politics, despite the vastly fluctuating political landscape of Nigeria. From British rule through civil View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
economic theory's ideal of perfect integration—an intermediate outcome that I refer to as quasiglobalization. Looking forward, levels of cross-border integration may increase, stagnate, or even suffer a sharp reversal if the experience between and during the two World... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
Xerox's accumulated knowledge in this area into a marketable product. Xerox's accumulated knowledge—as well as XTV's aggressive funding of the firm during the Gulf War period, when the willingness of both independent venture capitalists... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
G. GoldbergHarvard Business School Case 310-086 Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun was on a fast track until the EC's antitrust concerns about open-source MySQL ignited a transatlantic war of words delaying the deal. Sun's performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
market reaction to attempts to enforce sovereign debt contracts via U.S. "dollar diplomacy" in Latin America in the pre-World War II period and by legal action in the 1990s and early 2000s. We argue that dollar diplomacy created... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
and has transformed itself from a poverty-plagued backwater to an economic powerhouse now ranked second only to the United States in GDP. The Cold War abruptly ended when the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR fractured into 15 sovereign... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
practices, and bad actors can undermine even the most successful platforms. The book concludes with an exploration of platform battles of the future, including voice wars (Alexa vs. Hey Google vs. Siri), ridesharing and autonomous car... View Details