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16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

and scale of this unique global corporation. Geoffrey Jones, a leading business historian from the Harvard Business School, takes us inside this corporation, which from its origins in Britain and the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

technologies developed by the Sony Corporation. In this same astonishingly brief period, Japan's computer makers had become Europe's dominant suppliers of large computer systems and had captured the U.S. market in memory chips. International View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology

04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

cost-look ahead, investigate, and announce a small set of choices to the rest of the organization. Starting from that definition, the paper studies what makes a decision "strategic" and what makes strategy important, considering... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. "In an organization, all the employees already have some of this, in varying degrees." “Altruistic capital is the idea that every individual has... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

Leaders, edited by Michael Kinsley and Conor Clark, 170-171. Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2008 No abstract is available at this time. Cases & Course Materials Arcapita-2002 Harvard Business School Case 209-023 tIn 2002, Arcapita Bank,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

long-term study of successful CEOs, some of them outlined in the August 2008 Harvard Business Review article, "The Uncompromising Leader," cowritten with Russell A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

With cross-sector collaborations on the rise, a new book exploring partnerships between business and social organizations in the Americas comes at just the right time. Social Partnering in Latin America: Lessons Drawn from Collaborations... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’

seen before. It makes his character richer and more interesting. In fact, it will help set up and explain some events that happen later. Let's keep it. Tone it down a notch. But put it back." Though it was a small thing, adding that touch... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill; Entertainment & Recreation

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

Want to get a heated debate going among technologists? Ask them this question: Can the open source software movement defeat (or severely cripple) Microsoft in the marketplace? With little academic attention focused on this question, Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

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