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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
learn more and to watch the final four teams compete for the grand prize. The 2022 finale will take place virtually on March 31. Visit www.hbs.edu/nvc to learn more and to watch the final four teams compete for the grand prize. Codifying View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The New Global Business Manager
Companies are finally recognizing that being global is about accessing scarce resources — and that the scarcest of all is the human resource, particularly management. The assumption that “all the smart, capable people were born within a... View Details
Keywords: Management
- Profile
Evgeny Koudryavtsev
international students to bring their partners." This summer, Evgeny will go to London where he will intern with Warburg Pincus, a large-cap private-equity firm. After graduation, Evgeny's goal is "to help bring companies in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
companies with such plans do not perform better financially. Further analysis prompted Beer and Katz to conclude that the real role of bonuses is simply to attract highly qualified executives to a corporation. "Companies are forced into... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
methodology? Bernstein:This study would not have been possible without my collaborator and close friend from the days of my doctoral studies, Ben Waber. After finishing his doctorate at the MIT Media Lab, Ben co-founded (and is CEO of) Humanyze, a View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
While HGO met with some early market success, ultimately its fate would hinge on how other parts of the company viewed it and on how the rest of the company was performing financially. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
relevant government ministers at the table in a culturally sensitive process. Instead, the company took innovative actions away from the table that significantly improved its negotiating position.... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
spending your time on disruptive innovations!" M. P. Singh, a manager in the public sector, suggests, "Expecting corporate culture to tolerate or encourage radical change or innovation is like expecting a country to encourage... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
required to support the restoration of a more relational democratic capitalism, along with suggestions about how the norms and values underpinning such a culture can be socialized in the years ahead. Smart Rivals: How Innovative View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
communication technology that works with the same cellular spectrums that telecommunications companies use. Since that first experiment four years ago, Project Loon has improved balloon steerability, connectivity, and stamina—the balloons... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Get What You Pay Them Case: Lincoln Electric Company Written: 1975 Copies Sold: 284,826 With a tradition of innovation and technological leadership, the Lincoln Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was the... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
and cultural assets, as well as skills and ideologies across borders. The chapter argues that capitalism proved much better than political leaders in building institutions that coordinated activities across borders, but also points to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
emerging markets where local stock exchange listings have grown, liquidity in many Latin American exchanges has diminished in recent years. The purchase of local, family-owned companies and state-owned enterprises by outside... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
The CEO's key to a successful earnings call with investors? Crystal clear communication. Earnings calls are typically held after the release of quarterly earnings, allowing company executives a chance to brief investors, analysts, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
reminds me of one of the most poignant lines in the 9/11 Commission report: "Good people can overcome bad structures. They should not have to." Q: It's been said that, post-9/11, the intelligence community's culture must change... View Details
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
Transparency, the concept if not the reality, is all the rage in business circles. If you knew why a company charged a certain price for a product, would you be more willing to pay it? If your boss confessed her managerial screw-ups,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
welfare of US soldiers. For decades, as president of American Research & Development Corporation (ARD), an early venture capital firm founded in 1946, Doriot fostered the development of startup companies that focused on emerging... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
Whether jetting around the world or working from Colgate-Palmolive's midtown Manhattan headquarters, Lois Juliber has helped her company become a consumer-products powerhouse that does business in 212 countries and derives 75 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
the firm's culture as well as to nurture its leadership by overseeing career development and appointing the heads of our offices and practice groups." Looking ahead, Gupta observes that despite the current wave of megamergers, "We believe... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- Web
Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
welfare of US soldiers. For decades, as president of American Research & Development Corporation (ARD), an early venture capital firm founded in 1946, Doriot fostered the development of startup companies that focused on emerging... View Details