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04 Feb 2014
What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

think? Original Article The week that I write this, I needed help programming a television set for recording purposes. Before being connected with the cable company service representative, I agreed to provide telephonic feedback about the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

are not aligned. "CEOs should be working with both constituencies, insiders and outsiders," says Sadun. "However, if there are governance issues, there might be the possibility that the CEO is in the outside world more for... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

reception celebrating the release. The library’s late medieval and early Renaissance Italian business records housed in HBS’s Historical Collections in Baker Library are among the largest and most important collections in the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

How do you fit a case discussion into the confines of a high-school schedule? How do you record the information when you aren’t blessed with HBS’s abundance of blackboards? Can the case method incorporate the type of “active learning”... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

been adopted by more than 190,000 organizations around the world by 2020. To understand the impact of OHSAS 18001, the researchers obtained the cooperation of several global certification companies to access that data, and combined that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

Corstjens and Rajiv Lal Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012) Abstract Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Reunions 2024 Reunion Presentations At Reunions, HBS faculty and other thought leaders address a range of issues facing business and society. Program recordings and materials (slide deck, handouts, etc.) are made available only when... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

of Business, 2015-2016. Jeffrey J. Bussgang : Named one of Boston Magazine 's The 30 Most Disruptive People in Boston Tech. Lauren H. Cohen : Set the All-Time World Record in the Squat in the 165 lb.... View Details

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

chapters and a more prescriptive style to reflect today's world of expanding globalization, accelerated change, and increased complexity. This excerpt discusses the importance for young managers to continue to develop as professionals via... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

Westinghouse, and AT&T), and Telefunken (a joint venture of the two European leaders, Siemens and AEG). After World War II knocked out Telefunken, RCA took the lead in commercializing television worldwide. It was then solely... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

30 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

Summing Up Future Corporate Governance: Different, But More Effective? Shann Turnbull suggests that the world of corporate governance will benefit from the establishment of "a new type of corporate information and control... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

Medical records at a healthcare clinic in Lascahobas, Haiti. Ryan McBain A few years ago, the Boston-based nonprofit health care organization Partners in Health (PIH) set out to quantify the cost of primary care for its... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

26 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

Advertisement for DuPont Cellophane from The Saturday Evening Post, 1950. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Advertising Department records (Accession 1803), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

into World War II gave the steel industry a financial boost from the depths of the Great Depression as well as an opportunity for image burnishing. Large corporations and government worked together on the joint goal of supplying steel for... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

into the project. The company went on to be the world’s top chip manufacturer and among the 10 most valuable companies in the world in 2021, approaching $800 billion in market value. A mere 0.2 percent of TSMC at that valuation would be... View Details

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

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

tell you that the world of business is not so different. “It really was all about the recognition of and comparison with their peers, and many of them were willing to pay for it.” "This is why MBA programs send out lists of average... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

associated with the building of industry giants. Overcapacity acquisitions are aimed at reducing capacity and duplication. They happen when the giants must be trimmed down to fit shrinking world markets. Recommendations Acquired companies... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

07 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

and economic histories to illuminate Schumpeter's life and work. A central theme details how Schumpeter's insights help us understand how the forces of capitalism, innovation, and entrepreneurship continue to transform the world today.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

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Judges - Alumni

World Economic Forum. Industry Business Products and Services (B2B), Healthcare Verticals Digital Health Area(s) of Expertise B2B, Building a Team, Co-Founder Dynamics, Customer Acquisition, MVP Development Advice Make it personal, it... View Details

13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

Flick reached the soccer Olympus in line with manager icons Sir Alex Ferguson, José Mourinho, and “Pep” Guardiola. Indeed, while the aforementioned legends led the superior soccer team at the time through a glory season, Flick took over a struggling soccer club during... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

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