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2018
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Unlocked: Keys to Improve Your Thinking

What’s the best way to change your life? Change how you think, says marketing guru Gerald Zaltman. While most of us are accustomed to self-improvement via physical exercise or dieting, we often overlook our most powerful tool for effecting change: our own thoughts.... View Details

Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Performance Improvement

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28 Feb 2007
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Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

cross-border finance and in patterns we have seen before. In his new book Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance, Abdelal documents the waxing and waning of international capital controls in the twentieth and twenty-first... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal

11 Apr 2023
Op-Ed

The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

10 weeks won’t make up for any ground that gets lost. When Michael Watkins published his best-selling book The First 90 Days 20 years ago, the world was a kinder, gentler, and slower place. Today, given the speed that information travels,... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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Lehman Brothers Timeline | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Lehman Brothers Timeline Sept-Oct 2008 Video-Coverage of the Financial Crisis Download the Exhibition Catalog (PDF) Lehman Brothers Archives Lehman Brothers Deal Books Search Exhibition Lehman Brothers - Introduction 1840s – 1880s General... View Details

08 Aug 2011
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The Death of the Global Manager

used technology," Bartlett says. "It is now the communication pipeline of the world." The organizational capability of a company to rapidly develop and diffuse innovation is incredibly important but difficult to cultivate, he continues. "Back when... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

the Age of GenAI By: Iavor I. Bojinov , Karim R. Lakhani and David Lane 2024 Book Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can't Win By: Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao More Harvard Business Publishing Seminars &... View Details

12 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

D. Margolis, Adam M. Grant, and Andrew Molinsky Publication:Chap. 16 in Human Resource Management: Ethics and Employment, edited by Ashly Pinnington, Rob Macklin and Tom Campbell, 15 pages. U.S.: Oxford University Press, 2007 Abstract The View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006

K. Kazanjian, 192-210. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006 Abstract To remain successful, companies must respond to the challenge of achieving continual internal or core growth. In this book chapter, we suggest that vendors... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jul 2023
What Do You Think?

How Are Middle Managers Falling Down Most Often on Employee Inclusion?

(iStockphoto/AzmanL) Search “inclusion” on Amazon and the majority of book entries that come up are for children. Is that an indicator of the current state of management art on the subject? Fortunately, there is a growing body of research... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

2020
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Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire

By: Thomas J. DeLong

The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are teachers. Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes... View Details

Keywords: Teaching; Leadership; Attitudes; Management; Business Education

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Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)

When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details

Keywords: Education Reform; Bureaucracy; Policy Implementation; India

19 Mar 2007
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Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

company's future. The good news is that in today's hypercompetitive global economy, certain countries offer distinctive advantages to help your business but you need to choose wisely. Understanding the competitive dynamics of the world's top ten countries is the basis... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Podcast - Business & Environment

describes how he started the Drawdown Fund with Paul Hawken, editor of the New York Times best-selling book on climate solutions called Drawdown, and the strategic choices that set their fund operations apart from others. He also... View Details

11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

conditions. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508034 PublicationsMexico Since 1980 Authors:Noel Maurer, Stephen Haber, Kevin Middlebrook, and Herb Klein Publication:Cambridge University Press, forthcoming Abstract This... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Marketing - Faculty & Research

Freitas More Working Knowledge Articles Harvard Business Publishing May–June 2025 Article Balancing Digital Safety and Innovation By: Tomomichi Amano and Tomomi Tanaka March 2025 Case YouTube: Bidding for NFL Sunday Ticket By: Anita Elberse and Crystal Yao 2018 View Details

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The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

aspects of the steel industry. In 1936, AISI distributed The Men Who Make Steel , an illustrated book intended to showcase management and labor harmoniously partnering in a mighty enterprise in which “each group seeks to get out of... View Details

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Environmental Management

By: Forest L. Reinhardt

Forest L. Reinhardt is exploring the strategic and operational problems of firms in environmentally significant industries. His book, Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management (published in 2000 by Harvard Business School Press),... View Details

01 Oct 2019
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Today’s venture capitalists owe something to 19th-century whalers

03 Oct 2016
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Clayton Christensen On What He Got Wrong About Disruptive Innovation

12 Feb 2015
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