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16 Apr 2024
News

Netflix Enters Its Dan Lin (MBA 1999) Era

head of film at Netflix, which details the challenges and opportunities ahead for him at the streaming giant. Lin is a longtime producer (notably of The Lego Movie and Sherlock Holmes) and founder of Rideback, the production company he... View Details

17 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant (Princeton University Press), looks at how craftsmen establish and fulfill professional identity while simultaneously skirting rules against the creation of personal artifacts on View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
Teaching Note

Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree

Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details

Keywords: Argentina; Argentine Exceptionalism; Infrastructure Finance; Investing; Finance; Inflation and Deflation; Government and Politics; Energy Generation; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; South America

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04 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees

leadership." Changing A Leopard's Spots Unfortunately, companies that promote only extraverts are natural breeding grounds for the aforementioned ineffectual situations in which extraverts report to extraverts. Fortunately, the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

minutes—during the pandemic’s early weeks. Employees also participated in more meetings, though for less time than they did before COVID-19 sent many workers home. “There is a general sense that we never stop being in front of Zoom or... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

03 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers

Sometimes, trying to prove yourself in one task takes away time from doing other important tasks. “Women experience the fear that people are going to think they’re not good at, competent in, or capable in their roles.” Especially women... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Retail; Consumer Products

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

Ranjay Gulati talks to Tynan about her learning journey, and how she managed the risks of entrepreneurship while aiming to make a lasting impact. Saving BlackBerry: CEO John Chen Explains How to Make the Hard Calls John Chen was hired to save an iconic smartphone View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

24 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 24

Earnings Call By: Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim Abstract—One of the challenges companies claim to face in making sustainability a core part of their strategy and operations is that the market does not care about sustainability,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers

with Gen Z shoppers in their teens and 20s. The payment method made up $97 billion—or 2.1 percent—of total US e-commerce sales in 2020, a figure that is expected to double by 2024. BNPL is so lucrative, merchants are paying fintech View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Financial Services; Technology

18 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

model, is a more responsive and adaptive framework than a “time-dependent” model, and can track changing prices better in times of crisis, says Harvard Business School Professor Alberto Cavallo, one of the study’s authors. “Central banks... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

04 Mar 2009
Op-Ed

Credit is Not the Bogey

their income for housing, and rejecting "credit-impaired" borrowers with less-than-stellar records. Credit card companies have raised fees and increased penalties. Consumers have emerged as both victims and perpetrators. They... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas & Eric S. Belsky; Construction; Real Estate; Financial Services

19 Jun 2018
Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

entity that can effectively lobby to pass such policy. It’s time to revisit the assumption, one speaker argued, that sustainability can be reconciled with economic growth. "What’s the use of a zero-waste and carbon-free island resort... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

first commercial infrastructure for enabling secure commerce on the Internet and provided the software and services that enabled companies like Time Warner and AT&T to offer their services on the Internet.... View Details

07 Feb 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course

how viable the dream. “We tackle the problems that are faced by almost any founder no matter what industry they are in, no matter what country they are in, and no matter what time frame they are in-boom or bust.” "We tackle the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

02 Mar 2016
What Do You Think?

Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?

an action that destroys the contents. From the FBI’s view, Apple is in position either to identify the four-digit code (the company disputes this) or it can turn off the 10-attempt limit, which would allow law enforcement to crack the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

13 May 2013
Blog Post

The Social Side of an Internship

rounding out the internship experience and making new friends (and future colleagues). The day itself was a blast. Forty or so of us took a company bus to Anaheim and were treated to lunch by the company. In between hot dogs, soda and... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

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Business History - Faculty & Research

Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision By: Laura Phillips Sawyer In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying... View Details

02 Aug 2016
First Look

August 2, 2016

attention is allocated, and how that attention is allocated. Using click-stream data for thousands of U.S. households, we assess if and how attention allocation on each dimension changed between 2008 and 2013, a time of large increases in... View Details