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- 20 Jan 2011
- News
A Precursor from the 1930s
next two yearbooks listed only one person each. Apparently the program was abandoned due to lack of interest. (Later, in 1940, according to Jeff Cruikshank’s A Delicate Experiment, a history of HBS from 1908 to 1945, Professor George P. Baker “successfully View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
of the outcome, signals confidence. Although signaling confidence typically increases status, telling inappropriate jokes signals low competence and the combined effect of high confidence and low competence harms status. Rather than conceptualizing humor as a frivolous... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
governments have started to list state-owned enterprises, have selected professional managers to run them, and have given them more financial autonomy. We argue that the transformation from owner and manager to majority shareholder has... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
The Economics of Housing Finance Reform: Privatizing, Regulating and Backstopping Mortgage Markets. In a presentation delivered recently at the Brookings Institution, Scharfstein and doctoral candidate Adi Sunderam also argued for... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
enormous upheaval in the Communist Revolution that firmly established the Chinese Communist Party in charge of all things political and economic. If China is to live up to its promise, argues the new book Can China Lead?: Reaching the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 9
advocates-including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce-argue that traditional U.S. GAAP has too many disclosure and fair-value requirements that impose very high compliance costs on private companies. But there are influential players-including the Big Four auditors-who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach
nature of work. Prediction: How AI will affect Business, Work, and LifeHow should we think about improvements in artificial intelligence? Bill speaks with Joshua Gans, co-author of "Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence," which View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
Rakuten.” “Students have strong reactions to this. On the one hand, some insist that this is a poison pill that must be swallowed—there’s no choice,” comments Neeley. “Others say, ‘This is impossible, the CEO is crazy. How can you do that?’ ” For her part, Neeley View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
the future. In Do Lunch or Be Lunch: The Power of Predictability in Creating Your Future, Stevenson (with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank) argues that predictability in the business organization - created by practices such as establishing precise... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Shanghai and Dartmouth's Tuck School, argue that Chinese enterprises are characterized by a unique organizational culture and climate. The authors classified corporate culture according to four types: entrepreneurial, bureaucratic,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
Jay Lorsch and the Boston Consulting Group’s Colin Carter (MBA ’71) argue that corporate boards have made progress in the last decade, but are being pressed to perform unrealistic duties, given their structure, processes, and membership.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
University of Toronto. The paper argued that the structure of executive compensation and perks motivated CEOs and other top officers to feather their own nests at the expense of the business itself — the “principal-agent problem.” How... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
future success. The Keystone Advantage by Marco Iansiti and Roy Levien (Harvard Business School Press) Professor Iansiti and his coauthor argue that business ecosystems work in much the same way as biological ecosystems — one company’s... View Details
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
drive disruption—customers do. A recent book argues that successful disruptors spot and serve emerging customer needs faster than larger competitors. How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.comBook retailers were among... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
Hal Gregersen of INSEAD, for “The Innovator’s DNA” in the December 2009 issue. In their article, Pisano and Shih argue against U.S. companies’ decision to outsource manufacturing in the mistaken belief that American manufacturing holds no... View Details
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
ongoing challenges, agreed Rod Smith, vice president of emerging technologies for IBM. "Interoperability will be a cornerstone word from now on, whether you're in wireless, the Internet, or Web services integration." I would View Details
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
The Lines That Divide America
fair process they had come to expect, is increasingly aiding and abetting these line-cutters.” Nohria argues that feelings are equally strong among people with means, who see their own hard work, creativity, and sacrifices as... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
world's food citizens—realize they must take more responsibility for society's nutritional needs, economic development, and the health of the environment. Goldberg argues that the traditionally commodity-oriented, bargaining relationship... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
In 1995, the Vatican dismissed an outspoken French bishop named Jacques Gaillot. Arguing that Gaillot had been far too liberal for the Church's doctrine, Vatican officials removed him from his diocese outside Paris and sent him to... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
with—and may displace—producer innovation in many parts of the economy. We argue that a transition from producer innovation to open single user and open collaborative innovation is desirable in terms of social welfare and so worthy of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace