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- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
development organizations, involved in both research and program design and delivery. This case explores CCL's approach to leadership and management education for executives and presents some of the challenges the CCL faces as many... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Anthony Tan and COO Hooi Ling Tan (no relation to one another) expanded their Grab car-hailing app to Jakarta in June 2014. Later that year, Uber launched its car service in the city. Grab had started as MyTeksi in Malaysia in 2012, View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
even from a distance. This is what every global manager has been dealing with for decades. It’s so important to ensure everyone is on the same page. Part of that involves launching or relaunching your group to ensure you’re setting the foundation and explicitly View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
delivers a message of hope for a better world where no social mission is impossible. Cindy Ko (MBA ’05) Endeavor www.endeavor.org POSITIVE IMPACT: With help from Endeavor, Drillco Tools has become a leading designer and producer of mining... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
ideas to a wider audience. The chapter looks at the origins of Porter's interest in clusters, which turns out to be a natural extension of his earlier work on companies. It identifies the key characteristics of Porter's conceptual View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
policy, resulting in even stricter immigration restrictions—with potential negative consequences for the economy. The US government and business leaders should instead seek a coordinated approach to design an open, but flexible... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
must overcome severe individual and organizational biases that prevent managers and employees from thinking deeply and analytically about their risk exposure. In this paper, we draw lessons from seven case studies about the multiple and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
creativity is a better predictor of unethical behavior than intelligence (Experiment 1). In addition, we find that participants who were primed to think creatively were more likely to behave dishonestly than those in a control condition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
faster in sequential auctions conducted with a standard second price auction mechanism than with a clamped second price auction mechanism. We conclude that while it is important for mechanism designers to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Raising the Level of Abstraction This technical note discusses abstraction as a way of generalizing a process or component for wider application. By hiding complexity inside a module, abstraction enables system designers to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
quite brief (a total of 4 pages) so the balance between thinking time and reading set-up time for students is quite attractive. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211067-PDF-ENG ABICI Mukti Khaire, Elena Corsi, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
a hunting and fishing equipment retailer in the U.S. In June of 2003, founders Dick and Jim Cabela wanted to liquidate some of their holdings. However, Cabela's was not ready for an IPO, and the brothers were not interested in selling Cabela's to a strategic acquirer.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
depend on. "How do you go from a state of corruption to an orderly market?" says David E. Bell, successor to Ray Goldberg as the Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business. "I think it has to start with you and me trusting each other.... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
business leaders. “It’s disheartening to realize just how many women have had their careers and lives affected. But when you think back to Anita Hill over 20 years ago, there’s a difference now in recognizing how widespread this is, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
world's most influential women business executives gathered at Soldiers Field for Women Leading Business: An Executive Forum, the first-ever HBS Executive Education program developed for businesswomen. Anchored in the School's leading-edge research, the new program was... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
his coauthors, correct some of the misinformation, describe how the thinking on the subject has evolved, and discuss the utility of the theory. They start by clarifying what classic disruption entails—a small enterprise targeting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
leaders focus on the few things that produce results and experiences for the right customers; (3) the best service operating strategies don't require tradeoffs, so leaders foster "both/and" thinking in View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
exhibitions and NFL Europa, a de facto minor league, failed to establish a viable Continental presence for the league. Longer term, the NFL will look at London and other foreign markets to determine whether a franchise could be supported. "Like certain other American... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
discussed supporting innovation through a range of additional policy interventions, including tax credits, loan guarantees, IP policy, regulatory mandates, codes, and standards. It is critically important that these kinds of interventions be thoughtfully View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace