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01 Oct 1997
News

W. Hall Wendel, Jr.

mortgages on our homes to buy the company, we felt if we could just recoup our money, we'd be reasonably happy. I think my share was $40,000, so things have turned out much better than I ever dreamed." For a man who thrives on conquering... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; mountain; adventure; climbing

18 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

replacing one toxic worker, which is almost double the figure a company gains from hiring a “superstar.” A superstar in the top 1 percent of performers adds $5,303 in increased performance to a company’s profit, Minor’s paper Toxic Workers shows. “Every time you View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

08 Mar 2016
First Look

March 8, 2016

March 2016 Harvard Business Review Lean Strategy By: Collis, David J. Abstract—Strategy and entrepreneurship are often seen as polar opposites. Yet the two desperately need each other: strategy without entrepreneurship is central planning; entrepreneurship without... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Aug 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Equalizing Outcomes vs. Equalizing Opportunities: Optimal Taxation when Children’s Abilities Depend on Parents’ Resources

Keywords: by Alexander Gelber & Matthew Weinzierl

04 Feb 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences

Keywords: by Hanna Halaburda

22 Feb 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Consumer Demand for Prize-Linked Savings: A Preliminary Analysis

Keywords: by Peter Tufano, Nick Maynard & Jan-Emmanuel De Neve; Financial Services

2001
Chapter

Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry

By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn

U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While... View Details

Keywords: Public Sector; Science-Based Business; Research and Development; Sovereign Finance; Pharmaceutical Industry

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May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
Case

Gap, Inc., 2012

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin

Between 2000 and 2012, Gap, Inc. (Gap) ceded its world leadership position in specialty fashion retailing to Inditex of Spain and H&M of Sweden. These two companies, each less than a quarter of Gap's size in 2000, were now setting the pace in the global mass fashion... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Change; Fashion; Multinational; Brands; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Performance Improvement; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Change Management; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sweden; Spain; United States

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09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

efforts must first lead to corporate social performance, which in turn then leads to superior financial returns. For example, firms that have better environmental management practices ought to have better environmental performance in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

twists and turns in terms of what type of company you're at and what type of role you sit in. Many of our students come to HBS with a career change on their mind and many of our organizations are open to career switchers. What advice... View Details

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

technologies, culture, and aspirations. The more generically inclined the team becomes, the more concerned the client grows, which turns up the pressure and pushes the team even further down the generic road. But forewarned is forearmed.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

century. The reality, it turns out, is a bit different when it comes to IT wages, according to new research. In all but the largest cities, wage growth in IT jobs has become relatively moderate following the dot-com boom, coming to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

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Online Management Course | HBS Online

Professional Management Show Hide Details Case Studies Scaling Up N12 Technologies Growing Pains at Stroz Friedberg Paul Levy: Turning Around the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Featured Exercises Capstone assignment: small... View Details

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

Island to South Georgia and stayed with him the whole time. He wrote of Shackleton and what the effort to bring his men home cost him. Worsley said that Shackleton went gray—his hair literally turned gray between the time they arrived at... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

product, move into a more promising market, or adjust to a changing business environment. Whatever the circumstance, he says this action turns on a basic question: “What’s your story?” “How do you maintain trust and project your original... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

Whitehall findings,” he says. “It turns out that top managers might face more health problems.” Past research has seen mixed results when exploring links between stress and high-status positions. In biology, for instance, studies of... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

24 Apr 2023
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Build as Much Buzz as Booze? Inside the Epic Challenge of Cannabis-Infused Drinks

Legalization turned cannabis into a multibillion-dollar industry seemingly overnight, but this hot new market has had more—and more unusual—growing pains than most. Many experts predict significant market expansion ahead as more states... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

objectives of a public company should be and who should decide objectives and strategy. It was one of those times when I thought the answer was obvious, but it turned out that some of my respected sectionmates had viewpoints that amazed... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

30 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations

"emotional intelligence" may take the form of changing body language or tone of voice to influence the way the other person responds—or taking a break during a difficult point in negotiations in order to turn down the heat when... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

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