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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Spaces: Convening Power
they look forward to the center serving as a hub for bringing together diverse groups for productive discussions on everything from the economy of the future to the potential of free enterprise to business ethics and corporate values. In... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
front-page stories in the Wall Street Journal. As a result, some fifty major companies have made significant changes in their corporate governance procedures within the last year. His most recent monograph... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
usually creates a massive gap between what people know and are able to do, and what they are now expected to do. This creates the need to invest heavily in human capital. Given a longstanding culture that values egalitarianism and rewards... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
the changes he had been hired to make, including revamping the organization structure and instilling a new corporate culture that emphasized accountability. However, such changes had caused numerous clashes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
feel good, especially when it comes to our purchasing decisions. To that end, many major corporations have begun to take special interest in how understanding the human brain can help them better understand consumers. Enter a nascent but... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25
as a separate marketplace, because each has its own legal requirements, cultural traditions, and business methods, and most have their own currencies. The dramatic changes in strategic thinking and organizational relationships have made... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015
demand, and supporting infrastructures, including business ecosystems) and, when feasible, the wider institutional, regulatory, and even cultural context that conventional International business literature takes as a datum. This is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
in a U-Stor-It container in Inglewood, California. After losing his day job, he turns to his “auxiliary emergency backup job” as a “freelance stringer for the CIC, the Central Intelligence Corporation of Langley, Virginia.” He, along with... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
sample period; a calibration suggests that a 10 percentage-point increase in Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets may have increased this to between 100 and 130 basis points per year. In summary, the low risk anomaly in the stock market produces a potentially View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008
Business School Case 508-028 Lincoln Financial Group (LFG) reorganizes its business in order to improve customer intimacy. However, to implement the strategy, they need to effect significant changes in the skills of their salespeople.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
support. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55515 January–February 2019 Harvard Business Review What Does Your Corporate Brand Stand For? By: Greyser, Stephen A., and Mats Urde Abstract— While most firms are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser to View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
“I was incredibly nomadic, open to going wherever,” she recalls. A Luce Fellowship followed, offering Brooks the opportunity to settle in one spot for a while. She spent two years in Vietnam working with the International Finance View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
corporate treasuries for their self enrichment." To what degree will entrepreneurial capitalism be the antidote to both managers' and owners' capitalism? Are we about to see a rebirth of Schumpeter and his belief in the power of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
Putting the significance of the accomplishment into perspective, Bricklin's friend and Lotus Development Corporation founder Mitchell Kapor has likened the spreadsheet's impact on the computer era to the... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
history, it’s likely the crisis would have been avoided, Cook argues. Six years after the government takeover of Fannie and Freddie, taxpayers continue to own and heavily subsidize one of the largest companies in the world. Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
and Julie Battilana Abstract—This paper examines the critical role of gender in the commercialization of social ventures. We argue that cultural beliefs about what is perceived to be appropriate work for each gender influence how founders... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
not just a moment to praise or reprimand; and establish a culture where people are treated with respect. Amabile says that the study of creativity at business schools is a relatively new phenomenon, dating back to the 1980s or so.... View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
genuine concern, as is the efficiency of using established distribution systems designed for inter-store delivery to also package and ship thousands of small orders to individual consumers. More important, the substantial losses these companies might well incur would... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
Richard Branson, the British entrepreneur, corporate titan, and death-defying balloonist, touched down at HBS last fall to share his wit and wisdom with a large Burden Hall audience. Branson, founder and chairman of the Virgin Group, a... View Details