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- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
important leadership quality in these times. Roundtable discussions with about 200 executives echoed those findings. Our survey respondents also ranked creativity, curiosity, and comfort with ambiguity as...
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- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
more familiar and seem to present less of a risk." Maurer's research on the economic impact of the Panama Canal demonstrates another facet of foreign investment dynamics—in this case, the construction of a $375 million public works...
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by Julia Hanna
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
allowed investors both deal-by-deal selectivity and managed accounts of Cadre properties, at fee levels substantially lower than those charged by PE funds. Purchase this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- January 2015 (Revised September 2015)
- Supplement
Sanford C. Bernstein Goes to Asia (B)
By: Linda A. Hill and Allison J. Wigen
This case supplements "Sanford C. Bernstein Goes to Asia." Updates readers on Ghislain de Charentenay's first full year as director of Asian Research at Sanford C. Bernstein in Hong Kong and actions taken by the firm in FY2013.
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Collaboration;
Talent Management;
Leadership;
Talent and Talent Management;
Management;
Organizational Design;
Emerging Markets;
Globalization;
Hong Kong
Hill, Linda A., and Allison J. Wigen. "Sanford C. Bernstein Goes to Asia (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 415-041, January 2015. (Revised September 2015.)
- 2010
- Chapter
Crime Distribution and Victim Behavior during a Crime Wave
By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
The study of how crime affects different income groups faces the difficulty that crime-avoiding activities vary across these groups. Thus, a lower victimization rate in one group may not reflect a lower burden of crime, but rather a higher investment in crime...
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Safety;
Wealth and Poverty;
Selection and Staffing;
Crime and Corruption;
Income;
Leading Change;
Information Management;
Argentina
Di Tella, Rafael, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky. "Crime Distribution and Victim Behavior during a Crime Wave." Chap. 5 in The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America, edited by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky, 175–204. National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- June 2017 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Becton Dickinson: Innovation and Growth (A)
By: Raffaella Sadun, Michael Beer and James Weber
In late 2015, CEO Vince Forlenza was reviewing Becton Dickinson’s transformation efforts designed to enable the company to innovate and grow in a changing environment. Becton Dickinson had been a successful medical device company for over 100 years. In recent years,...
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Transformation;
Change Management;
Innovation Leadership;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Design;
Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
United States
Sadun, Raffaella, Michael Beer, and James Weber. "Becton Dickinson: Innovation and Growth (A)." Harvard Business School Case 717-419, June 2017. (Revised October 2017.)
- Article
Algorithms Need Managers, Too
By: Michael Luca, Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan
Algorithms are powerful predictive tools, but they can run amok when not applied properly. Consider what often happens with social media sites. Today many use algorithms to decide which ads and links to show users. But when these algorithms focus too narrowly on...
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Machine Learning;
Algorithms;
Predictive Analytics;
Management;
Big Data;
Analytics and Data Science
Luca, Michael, Jon Kleinberg, and Sendhil Mullainathan. "Algorithms Need Managers, Too." Harvard Business Review 94, nos. 1/2 (January–February 2016): 96–101.
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
hosting and infrastructure. We explore trends in the concentration of the DNS space since at least 2011. In addition, we examine changes in domains’ tendency to “diversify” their pool of nameservers—how frequently domains employ DNS View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Managerial Practices That Promote Voice and Taking Charge among Frontline Workers
- September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
- Supplement
IBM and the Reinvention of High School (B): Replicating & Scaling P-TECH and Partners
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created an innovation in public education through a business-school partnership for widespread replication and diffusion. In 2012, while P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) was still in its first year operating,...
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Social Enterprise;
Partnerships;
Innovation;
Entrepreneurship;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Leadership;
Partners and Partnerships;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Education;
Business and Community Relations;
Innovation and Invention;
Growth Management;
Chicago;
Idaho
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "IBM and the Reinvention of High School (B): Replicating & Scaling P-TECH and Partners." Harvard Business School Supplement 314-050, September 2013. (Revised June 2017.)
- 2016
- Working Paper
Mapping the Economic Grand Tour: Travel and International Emulation in Enlightenment Europe
As the itinerant wizard (technically one of the Maiar, if not the Istari) Gandalf wrote to the then domestically-inclined hobbit Frodo Baggins in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, “Not all those who wander are lost.” Indeed, as the recent brouhaha over the...
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Reinert, Sophus A. "Mapping the Economic Grand Tour: Travel and International Emulation in Enlightenment Europe." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-005, July 2016.
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
framework can serve as the cornerstone of both effective management and sound governance. Key Learnings · A sophisticated governance system is necessary in a complex capitalistic economy to ensure that...
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Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
during those moments, if you were to write down all the things that occur during those moments, and then asked yourself how often these things occur in your business life, and would they improve the way you...
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
drives; and how to manage the disease and vaccinations in the villages of developing countries. The book also explores how governments across the world can work closely with...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
educating great people who are concerned about the world and who understand that the way they manage a business will affect their employees, customers, View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- July 2001
- Case
Paula Evans and the Redesign of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (B)
By: Linda A. Hill, Kristin Doughty and Ellen Pruyne
Supplements the (A) case.
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Problems and Challenges;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Strategy;
Secondary Education;
Restructuring;
Leadership;
Education Industry;
Cambridge
Hill, Linda A., Kristin Doughty, and Ellen Pruyne. "Paula Evans and the Redesign of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (B)." Harvard Business School Case 402-004, July 2001.
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
both equity and fixed income claims increased significantly because of country risk premium. In the 2014 World Competitiveness Yearbook Ranking, conducted by the International Institute for Management...
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by George Serafeim
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
negotiators” "You can't script the process," says Wheeler, the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. "Whoever who sits across the table from you is likely to be as determined, as smart, View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54214 forthcoming Operations Research Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization By: Ferreira, Kris...
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 2018
- Case
Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather
By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Aldo Sesia
It is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a UK-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest in a privately held UK company that manufactured engineered composition leather extracted from waste leather using an environmentally friendly...
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Keywords:
Sustainability;
Venture Capital;
Investment Strategy;
Investment;
Strategy;
Ownership;
Valuation;
Energy Conservation;
Equity;
Technological Innovation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Performance Efficiency;
Manufacturing Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United Kingdom
Gandhi, Vikram S., and Aldo Sesia. "Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather." Harvard Business School Case 318-001, January 2018.