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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
In Memoriam
Emeritus, passed away in October at the age of 78. His work focused on exploring the strategic uses of technology by corporations and the relationship between technological change and competitive strategy, as well as the social... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
book based on their expertise. Les chantiers de ma vie by Claude Lefebvre (OPM 10, 1985) with Hélène-Andrée Bizier (Cyfbel) An autobiography of an engineer and entrepreneur from Québec. Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the View Details
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
and its efforts to establish Humanitarian Assistance for Neglected Diseases (HAND), a corporate social responsibility program focused on treatments for diseases that typically affect too small a population to warrant the attention of drug... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- January 2009
- Supplement
Live Nation Faces the Music (B)
By: Stephen P. Bradley, Frank V. Cespedes and Kerry Herman
In 2008, concert producer and promoter Live Nation, faces a decision about its strategy in light of the tumultuous changes in the music industry and the increasing power of the major artists. As the music business once again recreates itself in response to new... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019
It's been quite a year for HBS students, and as 2019 comes to a close we wanted to share some of the highlights from the MBA Voices Blog. In no particular order (since we love them all) here are the top 10 posts from 2019: How Being an Introvert View Details
- 07 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Pursuing a Dual Degree
communities. For example, I saw firsthand in Africa that communities with reliable infrastructure had more access to economic opportunity, which, in turn, offered social and economic mobility. I pursued the MS/MBA program to explore these... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
picture. Furthermore, in both contexts, communications postadoption influenced engagement, albeit in different ways. Firm-to-customer communications, through company posts to Twitter and blog entries, had varying effects on customer... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research... View Details
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
Across three studies, we show that gift givers mis-predict appreciation for socially responsible gifts and that their mis-predictions depend on the nature of their relationship to the recipient. Drawing on research on affective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
discussing a number of questions, including the following: should GAP include environmental and social aspects beyond food safety; what was GLOBALGAP's role outside of Europe; and how GLOBALGAP is a 'hidden asset' compared to ethical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
– both externally and internally. “My parents arrived in Calgary from Vietnam in 1981. They came with nothing and they influence my leadership style. They are capitalists in the best meaning of the word and I align with their sense of... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
urban and rural, the new urbanization does not upend China’s longstanding duality between those categories. The central goals of the new urbanization are to manage urbanization so as to generate domestic demand and reorganize agricultural production without... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
importance. The paper explores how this heuristic can produce erroneous inferences and influence broader beliefs about decision-makers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54771 forthcoming RAND Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
the misuse of social media, and cyberattacks—these are just a few of the threats to continuing prosperity that we see dominating the headlines every day. How can capitalism be sustained? And who should spearhead the effort? Critics turn... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- April 2006 (Revised March 2007)
- Case
Drexel Burnham Lambert (A): "The Smartest People on Wall Street Can be Had"
By: Boris Groysberg, Anahita Hashemi and Brendan Reed
In February 1990, Drexel Burnham Lambert declared bankruptcy amid a slew of scandals. Equities chief Arthur Kirsch hoped to keep his high-performing 600-person team intact. Could he find a company that would take on such a massive group hire? Competitors were already... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Selection and Staffing; Leadership; Negotiation; Groups and Teams; Power and Influence; Society
Groysberg, Boris, Anahita Hashemi, and Brendan Reed. Drexel Burnham Lambert (A): "The Smartest People on Wall Street Can be Had". Harvard Business School Case 406-107, April 2006. (Revised March 2007.)
- December 2011
- Article
Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?
By: Lauren Cohen, Joshua Coval and Christopher J. Malloy
This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In... View Details
Keywords: Spending; Private Sector; Taxation; Innovation and Invention; Interest Rates; Business and Government Relations; Investment; Employment; Power and Influence
Cohen, Lauren, Joshua Coval, and Christopher J. Malloy. "Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?" Journal of Political Economy 119, no. 6 (December 2011): 1015–1060. (Click here for a response to Snyder and Welch, click here for the data, and click here for the code.)
- Profile
Alex Furleigh
two years from HBS to focus entirely on my own development—what I want to do, what I want to learn, and who I want to be. While it’s easy to get caught up in the stresses of class preparation, social events, and recruiting, I’ve tried to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
McArthur Hall Dedication
as Dean. He expressed his personal appreciation for McArthur's friendship, which began when Menino was a city councilor, and applauded McArthur's influence on the stewardship of the city's hospitals and in establishing a relationship... View Details