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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
we now enjoy,” Richard Haass told some 640 alumni and guests at the HBS Global Leadership Forum (GLF) in Washington, D.C., in June. Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, was the first among a wide array of Washington insiders at the three-day conference... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
concluding section. Global companies will need to organize cross-functional value capture teams focused on appropriating value from their know-how and reputation by combining different institutional, market, and nonmarket tools, depending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
certain wariness of what one alum referred to as “the dreaded ‘R’ word.” “I look forward to being completely retired — after my funeral, maybe,” wrote one member of the Class of 1960 for his 40th Reunion profile. “Retirement is not on my... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
Things change. Things also get changed—often. Why? The obvious reason is that revising things makes them better. In the current research, we document a less obvious reason: Revising things makes people think they are better, absent objective improvement. We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
liquid, the observation refers to her involvement in, first, the 1993 launch of ViaCord, a company that enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source of stem cells that help treat life-threatening diseases like... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
regulation, consumer preferences, or technology change, managers in successful firms often respond with more of what worked in the past — a trap the author refers to as “active inertia.” When new realities call for new approaches, some... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
corporate archives to explore the fine details of how firms actually operated. It also includes work by those who have been influenced by evolutionary, transaction cost, and resource-based theories of the firm. The book will be an essential source of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
depended on a more dynamic development of the entire regional economy. On his own initiative, in 1997, Groot launched a private sector-driven effort to enhance the economic development in central Germany, the region located around... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
and North Africa have been referred to as "Revolution 2.0." The term admittedly ignores the vast history and evolution of governmental transitions over the ages, but these protests are nevertheless clearly influenced by network... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Thus the hypothesis predicts that developers with few or no organizational linkages will design independent system components, while developers with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
in applications, although just how many students shy away from applying depends largely on how widely the incident is reported in the media. The June research paper The Impact of Campus Scandals on College Applications shows that a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
seen. In these recent cases, while there’s talk of regulation and of laws, there’s very little reference to the word ‘integrity.’ That’s the key to it! Integrity is the fulfilling of one’s responsibility to all constituents. Greed, of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
call may be having a dramatic experience during this crisis is an important subtext for how they are navigating the conversation with me.” “[Pacing] ourselves as leaders to remain strong for all the people that depend on us, [managing]... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Suchors (MBA 1977) She Writes Press Floundering in her second career, the one she’s always wanted, author Cheryl Suchors resolves that, despite a fear of heights, her mid-life success depends on hiking the highest of the grueling White... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
perspective is at the same time grounded in theory and in the experiences of particular places. Reviewing state-of-the-art of economic geography, setting agendas, and with illustrations and empirical evidence from all over the world, the book should be an essential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
(2003): "Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited." Our paper received the Academy of Management Review's best paper award in 2003 and the decade award in 2013. We consider the context within which the paper was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
PublicationsOne-Switch Conditions for Multiattribute Utility Functions Authors:Abbas, Ali E., and David E. Bell Publication:Operations Research Abstract We introduce a variety of new independence conditions for multiattribute utility functions that permit preference... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
framework. The unified funnel communicates the idea that not only should the marketing funnel and the sales funnel be linked "vertically"—in the sense that Marketing's leads should flow seamlessly into Sales' funnel—but they should also be integrated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
cheaper) to manufacture in China. So depending on one’s perspective, China can be seen as both a challenge and an opportunity for U.S. manufacturing. For Sharpe and Katz, it is competitor and partner. As a competitor, there’s broad... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
that transcends the confines of “economic self-interest.” Referring to the nation’s financial crisis, Light said, “The times call for serious reflection and deep inquiry.” If timing is everything, then the Centennial Global Business... View Details