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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
the program using HBS’s distinctive online platform to enable accessibility in an affordable way (each course costs less than $500). “One of the things that we know about the most effective school leaders and View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- Article
Clogs to Clogs in Three Generations? Explaining Entrepreneurial Performance in Britain Since 1850
By: Tom Nicholas
Research into culture and entrepreneurship in Britain has been dominated by casual empiricism. This article shows the benefits of using a new method. Lifetime wealth accumulation is specified as a measure of entrepreneurial performance, and applied to data collected...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Performance Evaluation;
Biography;
Culture;
Education;
Wealth;
Research;
Great Britain
Nicholas, Tom. "Clogs to Clogs in Three Generations? Explaining Entrepreneurial Performance in Britain Since 1850." Journal of Economic History 59, no. 3 (September 1999).
- 10 Aug 2017
- Cold Call Podcast
Pal's Sudden Service: Taking Fast Food to the Next Level
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life
Large consumer banks have historically collected a lot of data on their customers, which they have used to sell standardized products. Increasingly, however, we have seen new entrants using customer data to...
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- 04 May 2021
- News
Best Buy Savior Hubert Joly Details a New Approach to Leadership
- 2018
- Race & 21st century economy: Access, investments and institution-building
The Importance of Entrepreneurship to the Black Community
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
significantly improve the performance and satisfaction of workers and boost the chances of hiring them permanently, according to the results of the study by Harvard Business School professors Iavor I....
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by Lane Lambert
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
employees on company time to make updates and edits to the software for community use that could be used by competitors? New research by Assistant Professor Frank Nagle, a member of the Strategy Unit at...
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- February 2019 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
Honda Innovations: Leveraging External Insights to Accelerate Creation
By: Antonio Davila
Nick Sugimoto, CEO of Honda Innovations—the open innovation organization of Honda, has to decide how to extend his organization’s approach to innovation across the world. Honda Innovations dates back to 2000 when Honda created Honda Research Institute in Silicon...
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Innovation;
Radical Innovation;
Corporate Venturing;
Corporate Innovation;
Organization Structure;
Management Control;
Business Units;
Disruption;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Global Strategy;
Disruptive Innovation;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Organizational Structure;
Strategy;
Auto Industry;
San Francisco;
Japan
Davila, Antonio. "Honda Innovations: Leveraging External Insights to Accelerate Creation." Harvard Business School Case 119-062, February 2019. (Revised April 2021.)
- December 2003
- Case
Sale of Hephaestus, Inc. to Vulcan Ventures, Inc.
Henry Hephaestus founded Hephaestus, Inc. in 1895. Its first product was a tapered roller bearing for use with horse-drawn wagons and carriages. It reduced friction on the axle and reduced the force necessary to move a heavy load, thereby enabling one horse to do the...
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Bagley, Constance E. "Sale of Hephaestus, Inc. to Vulcan Ventures, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 804-104, December 2003.
- 07 Feb 2020
- News
Women less inclined to self-promote than men, even for a job
- Web
What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization - Recruiting
artist. Her art and educational workshops challenge and encourage people to have meaningful conversations about social justice. She has partnered with many offices throughout Harvard Business School and here...
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High Commitment High Performance: How to Build A Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage
How to create the high-performance, high-commitment organization.
Integrating knowledge from strategic management, performance management, and organization design, strategic human resource expert and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer outlines... View Details
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
what shoppers do. This observational work is the bread and butter of Paco Underhill, a consultant whose market research firm, Envirosell (New York City), has been studying retail shopper behavior for 20 years. Teach a kid View Details
- 19 Mar 2014
- News
A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control
- November 1997
- Case
Royal Ahold NV: Shopkeeper to the Global Village
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Tom Clay
Royal Ahold has become one of the top U.S. food retailers in the United States and Europe, with a family firm that began in the Netherlands and grew to a listing on the U.S. Stock Exchange. It wants to be a global player and is trying to develop a global strategy.
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Family Business;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Global Strategy;
Leadership Style;
Public Ownership;
Food and Beverage Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., and Tom Clay. "Royal Ahold NV: Shopkeeper to the Global Village." Harvard Business School Case 598-055, November 1997.