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- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of 'Fairness', 1890–1938 By: Sawyer, Laura Phillips Abstract—Prior to the Great Depression and President Franklin Roosevelt’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
interviewed have a broad view of their societal and ethical responsibilities. "It's not something that we went fishing for, but it came through very clearly that many of these people, some of whom came from great poverty, are aware of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
Charles each week. The students learned a great deal more from the two of us than if either one of us had taught the course alone. View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
they can experiment. But there is also the business side of the operation, which is making sure clients are getting what they want. It’s not great if View Details
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
49 on the latest Fortune 500 listing. Anyone with a computer is familiar with the phrase "Intel Inside." With this book, professor Tedlow has taken us inside Andy Grove. Richard, it's View Details
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
an outsourcing lens tend to adopt a "transactional" model of organization. They treat partners like component suppliers, and focus their efforts on how to specify what is required from them in great detail. By contrast, successful firms... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
When North Carolina governor Pat McCrory recently signed into law the Public Facilities Privacy & Securities Act, in response to a Charlotte city ordinance that, among other things, would have prohibited discrimination based on sexual... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
similarly to its prior funds, or alternatively, raise a significantly larger fund. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211066-PDF-ENG Greg Mazur and the Purchase of Great Eastern Premium... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
definitions of the term are complex and at times contradictory. This background note traces the origins of university ranking systems and their evolution from a byproduct of lists of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
Effects, and Investment Strategy Willy ShihHarvard Business School Note 611-082 This technical note discusses scale economies and direct and indirect network effects in the context of building better business models. Some of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
not really helping us make decisions," Norton says. "Bill Clinton was famous for becoming so involved with the intricacies of each policy that no decisions were made. Having a leader who considers every detail sounds View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
leveraging equal resources. In hyper-competitive industries, another way that managers can stay relevant and maintain success is by finding ways to get small advantages over their competitors. The NFL stands as a View Details
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
by software platforms have been so great that the so-called "old guard" was displaced (or may be on its way to extinction): Typewriters have been all but displaced by PCs, board games have been... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
In May 1995, two scientists at the University of Mississippi were granted an American patent for the use of turmeric to treat flesh wounds. Soon thereafter, an Indian research organization won a lawsuit... View Details
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
Summing Up What's the Downside to Disruption in High Tech? This month's column gave many readers an opportunity to join my rant about the need for disruption to combat the... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome
ethical issues. It’s extraordinary. Related Reading: Why Leaders Need Great Books Teaching The Moral Leader Machiavelli, Morals, and You This article first appeared in the HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
hiring, and promoting minority workers, and he hopes the research will spur them to re-evaluate ways of reducing segregation. “These research findings are depressing because we value integration as a social goal,” Koning says. “Americans... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
tech-oriented, two-year college degree. “P-TECH is a great example of what I call ‘thinking outside the building,’” says Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
diversity-performance relationship in teams, while research on knowledge and practice explores the situated activities and logics of diverse experts in great depth. Both streams thus shed light on team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
on making them thoughtfully and deliberately, without remorse. Q: Could you talk a little about the four service "truths"? A: Frei: Companies that excel at service typically do a great job in four... View Details