Filter Results:
(6,589)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(6,589)
- People (34)
- News (1,951)
- Research (3,333)
- Events (47)
- Multimedia (21)
- Faculty Publications (1,139)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(6,589)
- People (34)
- News (1,951)
- Research (3,333)
- Events (47)
- Multimedia (21)
- Faculty Publications (1,139)
- August 2007 (Revised November 2010)
- Case
Grand Central Publishing
By: Anita Elberse
In April 2007, Grand Central's publisher Jamie Raab and editor Karen Kosztolnyik were involved in a frantic bidding war for a proposed book on the life of cat Dewey, billed as the feline answer to the best-selling "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst... View Details
Elberse, Anita. "Grand Central Publishing." Harvard Business School Case 508-036, August 2007. (Revised November 2010.)
- 2008
- Book
Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant
By: Michel Anteby
Anyone who has been employed by an organization knows not every official workplace regulation must be followed. When management consistently overlooks such breaches, spaces emerge in which both workers and supervisors engage in officially prohibited, yet tolerated... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Moral Sensibility; Governance Controls; Production; Organizational Culture; Practice; France
Anteby, Michel. Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant. Princeton University Press, 2008.
- 21 Nov 2024
- Blog Post
How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters
in a candidate, who does well at your organization, etc. The more context you are able to provide, the more qualified and appropriate candidates you will get . For more information, here’s a blog on rethinking your job description. View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Web
Case Method Teaching - Case Method Project
most relevant issues and events leading up to the decision point. For example, a case that focuses on a decision facing Martin Luther King Jr. during the campaign for black voting rights in 1965 also traces the broader civil rights movement, as View Details
- Program
OPM Renew
+1.617.495.6226. Fee, Payment, and Cancellations The fee for the OPM Renew program covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals. You will be invoiced upon admission to the program. Invoices are due within 30 days... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
in the Spring 2003 issue of California Management Review. In the piece, the authors offer case studies of Unocal, Nike, and Novartis. Spar and LaMure were struck by "how smart NGOs can be in their own strategic thinking, and how... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
democracy as well as its resilience over time. The book adapts the case method to revitalize conversations about governance and democracy and show how the United States has often thrived on political conflict. Each of the book’s nineteen... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Video Clips - Creating Emerging Markets
Video Clips This library of video clips enables educators and others to search for relevant interview clips by subject, industry, country, or any combination of all three. Users can also search by name to find all clips from a specific interviewee. The clips may View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- What Do You Think?
What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?
This past month, a New York Times report on Amazon’s personnel strategies prompted several days of intense debate. A number of questions can be raised about the article itself, given the fact that much of it was based on interviews with... View Details
- 04 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness
Kirgios studied more than 2,000 judicial appointments to federal courts over 75 years. They found that both in the Supreme Court and lower courts, departing judges were much more likely to be replaced by people who looked like them. For... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
momentum, as well as the uncanny levels of enthusiasm for the game, it’s no surprise that billions of dollars are being poured into the industry in the shape of pro teams and tournaments, franchises,... View Details
- Web
Research Services - Faculty & Research
problems. Some specific research services available to HBS faculty include: Computing resources HBS provides an expansive computing infrastructure for research, as well as the guidance and expertise of programmers, statisticians, database... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
These structures determine a firm's motivation to seek protection, as well as its capacity to overcome collective action problems within its industry. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Change
learned that she had a talent for communication that helped bridge cultural gaps, a skill that has served her well in a career that has included roles in think tanks, consulting firms, an embassy, a parliamentary commission, and—most... View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes represents a substantive or merely symbolic approach to governing working conditions is the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
might be appropriate to redesign (“refactor”) a system, to reduce what has been called “architectural debt.” Unfortunately, we lack robust data by which to evaluate the relationship between architectural design choices and system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2023
- Book
Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target
the use of the forceful technologies indicated above makes the fixed costs of producing, storing, and using data exponentially lower than they were in the past. Concurrently, the marginal costs of sharing data become infinitesimally low. This condition, which can View Details
- 08 Dec 2022
- HBS Case
The War in Ukraine and Nestlé’s Moral Dilemma: Stay or Leave Russia?
to its Russian employees and civilian customers of baby food and nutritional formula if it withdrew. "You don’t want to support war, but at the same time you don’t know if you will be making things worse or not." “It really gets at the... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
software to be significant. But unlike other retailers who took an iron hand approach to push compliance, Belk's implementation permitted store managers to "edit" the system to "fix" the "bugs" in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne