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- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
and empirical implications that focus on the interface between technological shifts and identity change at multiple levels. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-048.pdf Cases & Course View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
content creation. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2013/06/how-to-profit-from-lean-advertising/ar/1 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 612-057 Inventory-Based Lending Industry Note Inventory-based lending is a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
a folding chair across the court to protest a referee's call. Mike Krzyzewski, also known as Coach K, leads the men's basketball program at Duke University. Instead of fear, Krzyzewski relies heavily on positive reinforcement, open and...
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- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
transporting Asia-bound exports down to the Gulf and through the canal and shipping them out to Seattle by land. Conversely, eastern-bound cargoes no longer consisted of strategic raw materials from California but inexpensive manufactured...
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- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
chypre, and was the first perfumer to sell his wares in elegantly designed glass bottles, rather than in the pharmaceutical bottles used previously. An ambitious believer in globalization, he even sent his energetic mother-in-law to open...
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- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
Harvard Business School Case 717-483 Reawakening the Magic: Bob Iger and the Walt Disney Company Mickey Mouse, Snow White, and Buzz Lightyear strolled down Main Street at the grand opening of Hong Kong Disney in the fall of 2005, pausing...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
thoughts and feelings. People varied considerably in whether they saw the open space of time before them as a blank canvas they were excited to paint—or a dark, scary void. “When you work, you are a kind of tenant in a really settled life...
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- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
filings in November 2020. This requires corporations to provide a section in their annual report disclosing features of their “human capital” that they deem material to their performance. To gauge the extent that job hunters are drawn to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
manufacturing and financial activities around the globe prior to WWI. The British trading companies played a significant role in opening new markets and developing new sources of supply in resources in the emerging global economy....
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by Geoffrey Jones
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
relative inflation-indexed bond issuance generate return predictability. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=40097 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 113-058 Investindustrial Exits Ducati In...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
in the book the different roles, frequencies, participants, and agendas for operational review meetings and strategy review meetings. We open the book with a great quote often but perhaps inaccurately attributed to Sun Tzu in The Art of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
information is delivered." One possible line would include information about a company's strategy. Brad Keller commented that "It takes more than just sharing financials or performance review data It is really a matter of being View Details
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by James Heskett
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
great migration northward by African Americans, and the opening up of consumer capitalism." Women Take The Stage As Consumers Walker may have catered primarily to an African American clientele, yet her ideas and methods—such as...
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- 25 Oct 2010
- HBS Case
Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market
Tesco PLC is the third-largest retailer in the world, just behind Wal-Mart and Carrefour. But that didn't make the UK-based chain immune from many costly mistakes as it entered the US market in 2006. For example, it opened some of its...
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- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
trying to discern who influences the target player and to whom that player defers. For example, when we were advising a client who was eager to sell his company, we counseled him against his instincts to quickly open serious negotiations...
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by Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
a Google doc or Slack. This is how virtual companies work. If you and I are working as a team, I can work in a Google doc and explain what I’ve done, and you can wake up in a different time zone or city, open it up, and see the work I’ve...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
quality, low cost, short lead-time and flexible production. And Toyota's operating system—the Toyota Production System—had been widely credited for Toyota's sustained leadership in manufacturing performance. Furthermore, Toyota had been remarkably View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
appears afterward. Martha Lagace: It's a clever idea to tell your story through the fictional character of Jim Barton, a fledgling CIO. Why describe CIO challenges through fiction? Rob Austin, Dick Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell: Our decision to use fiction View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
of discovery and creative progress rapidly accelerated in the wake of professionalization. In an open society, moreover, there will always be room for "rogue" entrepreneurs to challenge the existing order, as practitioners of...
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- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
education inadequate, ill-organised, arbitrary and useless,” he wrote in the book’s opening pages. “...[I]t pained me that this useful and necessary activity [trade] had fallen into the hands of such undisciplined and uncouth people, who...
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by Julia Hanna