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  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

Education Leveraging Crowdsourced Peer-to-Peer Assessments to Enhance the Case Method of Learning By: Avery, Jill Abstract—Many marketing educators use the case method to help their students strengthen their decision-making skills. Rigorous View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

party and governmental elite and among a new class of entrepreneurs. Surprisingly, Chinese mercantilism is also widening the income gap in Western trading partners. For example, Wal-Mart, the largest and fastest-growing trader with China,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • 03 Feb 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

employed, and Petter Östlund's advocacy of "more experienced class members." This leaves us with the question of not whether, but how much of the groundwork for preparing effective doers can be provided in the classroom. Is the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

literature by analyzing all forms of incentive pay for several types of managerial positions and include additional measures of earnings manipulation-end-of-year excess sales and class action litigation-in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

participation: uncertainty about the value of the IP being offered, value dissipating effects of competition for the knowledge, and costs associated with ex-post lawsuits claiming expropriation. Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

school system—and to take action to improve it. There has been much work to do, as Harvard Business School's Stacey Childress details in two case studies. According to Childress, "The New Orleans public school district was already in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

Schering-Plough filed a lawsuit accusing Upsher-Smith of violating Schering-Plough's patent. The companies reached an out-of-court settlement in which Upsher-Smith agreed to delay its entry into the market, and Schering-Plough agreed to... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

pounds of production per year. The case describes how Johnson took charge of the plant and her action plan for implementing a new set of changes. During Johnson's tenure at Williamsport, the plant was nominated as a potential site for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

of lawsuits on all sides. Two other groups reportedly topped Kraft's bid, but, in the end, the seller reluctantly chose to settle for less rather than get involved in protracted legal battles. Afterwards, Kraft attributed his success to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

from Olympus in October 2011. It discusses the repercussions following an investigation into the fraud and the report that was released thereafter. It also discusses the lawsuit that followed (filed by Woodford against Olympus), its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 27

damaged financial markets. As an alternative to the patchwork solutions and ideologically charged proposals that have dominated other discussions, the Squam Lake group sets forth a clear nonpartisan plan of action to transform the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

America small-business owners moved quickly when COVID-19 started shuttering shops in March. Fine dining restaurants shifted to takeout. Book shops introduced curbside pickup. Gyms offered classes online. Business owners, it seemed, just... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service
  • 10 Feb 2014
  • HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

One morning last fall, Gautam Mukunda told the MBA students in his first-year Leadership and Organizational Behavior class to crawl under their desks and stay there. He wanted them to experience a sense of how it feels to work in a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

the US economy? A: The immediate direct impact on the real economy is measurable but modest. About 800,000 people are now taking unpaid days off, and they are generally people of middle- or upper-middle- class incomes, so they are... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 28 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

leaders often fail to notice when their decisions indirectly hurt people—and how people often fail to hold organizations accountable for indirectly causing harm. book excerpt Failing To Notice Indirect Actions From The Power of Noticing:... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

Political Influence of Voters' Interests on SEC Enforcement By: Heese, Jonas Abstract—I examine whether political influence as a response to voters’ interest in employment levels is reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Oct 2000
  • What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

terrible thing. Not only does it create a new social class of underground activity in the U.S., but it also creates millions of broken homes ... in Mexico." He concludes that legalizing the free flow of labor into the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

Denise Frazer and Paolo Canto, two HBS students, have decided to give each other feedback on their class participation. While Denise believes that she has provided concrete, actionable feedback to Paolo, she... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 9

abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://hbr.org/2010/03/bold-retreat/ar/1 Lawsuits and Empire: On the Enforcement of Sovereign Debt in Latin America Authors:Laura Alfaro, Noel Maurer, and Faisal Ahmed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Sep 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Credit:  Steven Zimmerman/Wikipedia Commons Google software engineer James Damore’s ten-page manifesto excoriating his employer for its diversity initiatives incited a major controversy in August about affirmative View Details
Keywords: by Bill George

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