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- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
substantially for nonmaterial reasons that affect both institutions and agents' interests. Purchase the book: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5625 Re-Constructing IPE: Some Conclusions Drawn from a Crisis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
them appear manipulative. Some children grow up to use these time-honored tactics in the workplace. For example, when a private equity firm negotiates with a major institutional investor, the investor might View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010
These changes did not—as often assumed—result in the decline of family businesses but instead gave rise to a different kind of competitive and internationally oriented "Mittelstand." The study integrates approaches from new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
of understanding of their company's business. They cited two reasons. First, there are too many independent directors in the boardroom, and it takes them too long to figure out what the business is all about. Second, there's a flaw in getting View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
with them we were able to create a very different organization—less top down, more participative, one that offered more challenging jobs and informed people about results of the business on a regular basis. That began my intellectual... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
or even employing the long arm of the government; and the influence of informal and formal institutions on opportunities for success in international finance and trade. Identity as a Variable Authors: Rawi... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
to divert search for an information intermediary who enables buyers (consumers) to search affiliated sellers (stores). We identify two original motives for diverting search (i.e., inducing consumers to search more than they would like):... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
the Top: How Director Conversations Shape Culture by Melinda Muth (MBA 1981) and Bob Selden Australian Institute of Company Directors The authors examine how director conversations shape organizational culture. They provide board members... View Details
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
the negatively performing hospitals engaged in low levels of activity, but one poorly performing hospital in particular caught Tucker's eye. This institution had high levels of activity when it came to gathering View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
India. "The case raises an uncomfortable question: Why should Monitor pay a Harvard MBA top dollar to conduct business research in the United States while an Indian Institute of Management graduate could do the work just as effectively in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
with the classic norms of science. We actually discuss this in terms of the discovery of DNA. Watson and Crick arguably violated scientific norms by relying on information that had been gathered by other researchers. Nevertheless, they... View Details
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Digital Archival Resources - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
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Digital Archival Resources - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
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- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
2001), a founding member of Leadership Now, formed the Election Support Corps, a partnership between Leadership Now and the National Vote at Home Institute (VAH) to support the safety and security of the 2020 election cycle. Working with... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
Italy, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Latin America. He advised public administration institutions, regional governments, and multinational institutions. In 1998, Duch also became the founding chairman of the Competitiveness View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
institutions are in flux. Many of the large German firms have huge legacy costs and entrenched corporate cultures that must change. Remembering August Thyssen reminds people just how entrepreneurial corporate Germany once was. I think... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007
constitutional test and encourage private investors in electric power, it was not clear that officials had fully understood the lessons of the recent disputes. Problems lay less in the legal framework than in lack of information about... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace