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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
have created an enduring record of the School's intellectual engagement in historic events. In their regular reports on social gatherings, curriculum developments, building dedications, and retirements, they have also helped to foster a...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
hovered prohibitively high. The solution was to tap into the resources of tax-exempt universities, starting, they hoped, with Harvard, whose chief investment officer was a friend of Dan Gregory's. "After we had given numerous dog-and-pony shows, Harvard agreed that our...
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- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
produced multiple blockbuster hits. ESPN, ABC, and other cable and broadcast properties were producing record profits. Attendance was up at Disney parks and cruise ships, while the Shanghai Disney Resort, the company’s third and largest...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
gerontocracy. What if John Hartford had had a son who was bound and determined that he could post a better record at the company than his father did? That is what happened at IBM. Thomas J. Watson Sr. had built IBM from a motley...
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- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
insiders strategically sell shares prior to the disclosure of goodwill impairment losses. We provide evidence that insiders of goodwill impairment firms engage in abnormal selling of their shares quarters prior to the announcement of such losses. In addition, of firms...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends with greater detail than...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
head telling me that the most important decision any company makes is what markets it decides to serve with what products. Founded in 1911, IBM was originally called Computing-Tabulating-Recording (C-T-R). Computing referred to scales used by merchants. View Details
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by Jim Aisner
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
coaches and teach celebrities, actors, to prepare for a role, to sound perfect for it. So we got these people who charge $300 an hour to record these video lessons that would exactly mirror how they would work with their clients...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
Because we weren't making loans ourselves, just guaranteeing them and taking some of the risk away from the banks, we were able to deploy a record $30 billion a year at a total cost of less than a billion dollars. And all this money...
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- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
gambling that caused rice prices to rise. However, when the price of rice fell to record lows in the late 1720s, the samurai (whose income was tied to the value of rice) saw their economic position fall relative to the merchant class,...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
that are transforming work. Those include the way work gets done, automation and remote work, and the context in which it takes place amid rising social tensions and economic inequality. As we close out 2021, workers are quitting in View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “start-up nation.” Despite the economic miracle the country had wrought since its founding, he...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
way he remembers his activism. The first was a betrayal. One of Maj’s closest friends had spent years informing the SB of his actions. On that December 1978 evening, Janek (whom we refer to here only by his SB code name) recorded the...
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- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
self-control. We focus on children aged between 5 and 15 as the literature suggests that self-control develops within such age range. We ask each child to toss a fair coin in private and to record the outcome (white or black) on a paper...
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- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
inform his unborn child about how to live a happy life. In this special live Skydeck episode, recorded during spring reunions, Neil talks about his book with the Bulletin's associate editor, April White. And takes questions from the...
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- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
young startup’s success in the five years since its founding. The Silicon Valley–based company had recently shipped its two millionth smartwatch; held the record for three of the four highest Kickstarter campaigns ever (raising...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
recording employees’ creative work affected the quality of creative work, job engagement, and financial performance. We found that, on average, this system did not have a significant effect on any outcomes. However, it significantly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
HawkinsHarvard Business School Case 111-034 Following International Financial Reporting Standards guidance, company records a number of significant losses and a related deferred tax asset. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
if successful, would not only mark a dramatic change for the company but would also serve as a test case for executive pay reform in the whole United Kingdom. Should they go ahead? How would a second failure to get shareholders’ approval be View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
remains in unchartered territory. We’re two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, amid a worker shortage, and record numbers quitting their jobs. In the U.S., stubbornly high inflation and recent increases in pay have raised the specter of a...
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