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- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
The World Bank estimates that the equivalent of $1 trillion is offered in bribes every year. In the age of globalization, it's easy to see how giving into bribery might be competitively advantageous. In fact, research by Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
and continues to be a lack of good leadership! . . . The politics of international labor interaction are extremely complex and will require tremendous leadership ability to negotiate win-win deals across countries so that employees of corporations in diverse nations... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
Facebook’s vision and mission statement.” Brendan Coffey led the way in proposing that “FB needs a much more active strategy to place the user in a position of control with respect to how their data is used.” Bhanu Ramenani suggested one way this could be done is View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- What Do You Think?
Making Right Choices: Art or Science?
using art to sharpen the intuitiveness that goes into the moment of choice." Others maintained that choosing is neither an art nor a science. Laurence McKinney said, "We ultimately base our decisions on 'feelings'" and emotions, aided View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
journals. “Academic research can be helpful, but it tends to be overly complex, hard to digest, and not backed by real quantitative insights from customer populations or engagements,” says Neale-May, executive director of the Chief... View Details
- November 2007 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
Allston: Brand vs. Architecture
By: Andre F. Perold, Arthur I Segel and Christopher M. Gordon
Harvard President Lawrence Summers had presided over the final interviews of world-renowned architects being considered for the science complex planned for Harvard's expanded campus in Allston. The selection process had absorbed nine months in 2005 and amplified the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Brands and Branding; Design; Urban Development; Selection and Staffing; Construction Industry; Boston
Perold, Andre F., Arthur I Segel, and Christopher M. Gordon. "Allston: Brand vs. Architecture." Harvard Business School Case 208-079, November 2007. (Revised March 2009.)
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
the inner city will require a commitment not only by the government, but also by the private sector, a five-member panel, moderated by Randal Pinkett of the MIT Media... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 2022
- Book
Private Equity
By: Paul A. Gompers and Steven N. Kaplan
This Advanced Introduction provides an illustrative guide to private equity, integrating insights from academic research with examples to derive practical recommendations. Paul Gompers and Steven Kaplan begin by reviewing the history of private equity then exploring... View Details
Gompers, Paul A., and Steven N. Kaplan. Private Equity. Elgar Advanced Introductions. London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
joint venture with Toyota called NUMMI, approximately fifteen years ago. However, despite Toyota's openness and the genuinely honest efforts by other companies over many years to emulate Toyota, no one had yet matched Toyota in terms of... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
features described by Donham. Typically, they average 10 to 20 pages of text, with 5 to 10 additional pages of numerical exhibits. The best cases describe real, not fictitious, organizations and real business issues. "A good... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
cost performance of IT technologies over the first forty years changed by roughly 107, and for the foreseeable future will continue to evolve at the same rate. That is in sharp contrast to a train, which after eighty years moved six times... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
coauthored the textbook and its updates with the late Sumantra Ghoshal (HBS DBA '86) and Paul W. Beamish of the University of Western Ontario. "The Japanese juggernaut had just come driving through the United States, challenging the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
may file for an initial public offering by the end of 2011, according to the New York Times. "Groupon has attracted remarkable interest," says Harvard Business School professor Benjamin G. Edelman. "With the economy... View Details
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
backlash from other organizational members. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/mcqxpioCi4O4ZaScUhLN][/div] In response to the broader perspective offered by his team’s devil’s advocate, one CEO shared that he took proposed... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
What They Are Reading Jeff Bussgang Two of my books during the “summer of COVID” have been a deep case study into perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
fact, this redundant communication works to get projects completed quickly, according to new research by Harvard Business School professor Tsedal B. Neeley and Northwestern University's Paul M. Leonardi and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Company Loyalty
both employers and employees to strike a brand-new balance when it comes to loyalty—one that gives organizations the focus and expertise they need to compete and employees the career development opportunities they demand? According to the experts interviewed View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
liabilities, estimated at about $34 trillion. They are omitted from Medicare's costs because the government uses cash accounting. If Medicare followed the accrual accounting, which private sector insurers must use, its administrative costs would increase View Details
- October 2003 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
Dividend Policy at Linear Technology
By: Malcolm P. Baker and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
In 1992, Linear Technology, a designer and manufacturer of analog semiconductors, initiated a dividend. The firm increased its dividend by approximately $0.01 per share each year thereafter. In fiscal year 2002, Linear experienced its first significant drop in sales... View Details
Keywords: Financial Strategy; Investment Return; Financial Condition; Taxation; Initial Public Offering; Financial Management; Semiconductor Industry
Baker, Malcolm P., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Dividend Policy at Linear Technology." Harvard Business School Case 204-066, October 2003. (Revised February 2004.)
- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
Competitiveness: Paths Forward," an HBS initiative, was an appearance by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, who was brought in by wheelchair but rose to his feet to speak about how the city could be a model... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette