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Leading a Family Business (LFB) - Course Catalog

decisions in a family business? How do you define success in a family business that goes beyond maximizing shareholder returns? How do you build and sustain competitive advantage? How do you plan for effective succession and transition of leadership? What are the key... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

review the research on when people expect too little or too much self-interest in the intentions of others, as contrasted with rational behavior. We also discuss the antecedents and consequences of these naive and cynical errors, as well as some potential View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2015
  • News

The ‘F’ Word

States, I was offered the job of general manager of the Italian marketing operation based in Rome, with responsibility to integrate it with a newly acquired manufacturing company outside Florence. I insisted that I would need to have both... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

exercise a huge impact on management studies more generally, especially strategy and the study of entrepreneurship. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-046.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsBroadcast Television in the Broadband World Harvard Business School Note 707-486 What strategies have the top four (NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX) broadcast television... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

materials and physical space. As we traversed Denmark in the first of our two-week immersive field course (which would later take us to the Netherlands), we were lucky to meet several organizations that are turning to circular economy View Details
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

By: Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger and Se Yan
Our paper provides a comparative perspective on the development of public primary education in four of the largest developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50% of the world's population in 1910,... View Details
Keywords: History; Middle School Education; Data and Data Sets; Residency; Integration; Perspective; Surveys; Geographic Location; Welfare or Wellbeing; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies; Growth and Development; China; India; Brazil; Russia
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  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Innovations Under Way Will Shape HBS’s Future

ambition, internationalization, inclusion, and integration with Harvard — have set in motion a pace of change that is unprecedented yet needed to respond to the changing world around us. There is enthusiasm and energy that can be felt... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Skeete Tatum; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 21 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

and when they buy). "Without capturing what is going on inside customers' minds and hearts, and integrating that information with the factual external experiences, the picture is incomplete," says Doug Grisaffe, chief research... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
  • 22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22

in a Systems Business J. Bruce HarreldHarvard Business School Case 810-071 This short case describes the tensions that often arise between finance executives attempting to curtail unproductive activities and strategy executives trying to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

exporting to 32 countries and had manufacturing plants in Brazil and Uruguay. As it continued its international expansion, should it follow the same vertical integration strategy in other countries, or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2024, over 100 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some of the types of companies that students worked at this summer... View Details
  • Sep 2007 - 2007
  • Conference Presentation

Antecedents of Boundary Spanning in Cross-functional NPD Teams

By: James R. Dillon, Shikhar Sarin and Amy C. Edmondson
Boundary spanning has been shown in prior research to enhance innovativeness and performance of product development teams. In this study, we examine team conditions that foster boundary spanning behavior. We analyze survey data from 207 members of 54 cross-functional... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Performance Improvement; Boundaries; Leadership Style; Product; Complexity; Integration; Power and Influence
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  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

  Working PapersLocal R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

New Releases

strategy represents the new competitive standard, replacing the conventional "make and sell" method of doing business. Sense & Respond: Capturing Value in the Network Era, edited by HBS professors Stephen P. Bradley and Richard L. Nolan,... View Details
  • 11 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

supported by management. Deshpandé's observation that in top international firms, "corporate culture trumps national culture," is in line with what other studies show. They indicate that as high-performing global companies implement transnational View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Do You Speak Business?

international firms, “corporate culture trumps national culture,” is in line with what other studies show. They indicate that as high-performing global companies implement transnational strategy and strive to achieve competitive... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

with a dominant platform that earns more than under compatibility. We also find that incompatibility generates larger total welfare than compatibility when horizontal differences between platforms are small. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace