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- 15 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
A Major Roadblock for Autonomous Cars: Motorists Believe They Drive Better
matter of how they view the technology in a vacuum, but it's how they view it in relation to themselves.” The pursuit of vehicle automation isn’t just a technological or financial quest by automakers, it’s an urgent public safety issue....
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- 04 Mar 2024
- What Do You Think?
Do People Want to Work Anymore?
represented himself as a successful entrepreneur. The gist of the letter was that there was one thing wrong with what we wrote. It was that: “People don’t want to work any more. So I’ve designed my jobs accordingly. They can be performed View Details
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by James Heskett
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
the world has three. I don't mean to boast. And there are lots of things that we've been working on since the eighties. We've been trying to get an HIV vaccine since the 1980s and we've been unsuccessful. Neeley: So, where does this leave us? Frazier: Let me start...
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- December 1985 (Revised August 1994)
- Case
Metromedia Broadcasting Corp.
Describes the market for high-yield, or "junk," bonds and includes summaries of academic research on the risk/return characteristics of high-yield securities. Describes the role of Drexel Burnham Lambert in the primary and secondary markets for high-yield debt....
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Mason, Scott P. "Metromedia Broadcasting Corp." Harvard Business School Case 286-044, December 1985. (Revised August 1994.)
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
are not the skills that most doctoral candidates are asked to master as part of their training." Leonard Lane reinforces this view in saying that "Relevancy requires that the MBA-level instructor be a true practitioner-scholar...
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by James Heskett
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
How did you first become interested in PRT systems? Ben Edelman: As a longtime user of public transportation, I often wish for more widespread transit links, more frequent services, and faster journeys. Yet I'm shocked by the costs of...
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- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
about $1 billion on job-retraining, according to The Economist.) The creation of a 2-track world. As microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus put it in his speech accepting the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, if globalization "is a free-for-all highway, its View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- March 2021
- Case
Founders Factory
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and James Barnett
In January 2020, Founders Factory (FF) Executive Chairman Brent Hoberman and CEO Henry Lane Fox were considering FF’s expansion strategy. FF operated as a venture capital (VC) fund built around an accelerator and incubator, and organized around sectors within...
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Entrepreneurship;
Markets;
Planning;
Expansion;
Global Range;
Business Model;
Talent and Talent Management;
Experience and Expertise;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Global Strategy;
Innovation Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Teams;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Partners and Partnerships;
Internet and the Web;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Technology Industry;
Africa;
South Africa;
Johannesburg;
Europe;
France;
Paris;
United Kingdom;
England;
London;
United States;
New York (city, NY)
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and James Barnett. "Founders Factory." Harvard Business School Case 821-009, March 2021.
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
against federal law? But in the absence of enforcement action by the United States government, perhaps the better question is, what will the inevitable national market in marijuana shake out? Will it consist of grungy underground head...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
2016 Boston: Self-published An Easy Introduction to Financial Accounting: A Self-Study Guide By: Narayanan, V.G. Abstract—This book is a self-study guide written for someone who wishes to teach themselves basic financial accounting. It is based on a course View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
Books. Before Penguin was founded by Allen Lane in 1935, serious literature—"good books"—was expensive and bound in hardcover; only lurid fiction was sold in paperback. "The good books were...
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- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
Right, a new book by HBS research associate Gorick Ng. Educated during the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, the class of 2021 concludes an unusual academic experience only to face an unsteady global economy. Ng’s book sets out to help these...
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by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is...
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- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
the downside and risk of choosing a young, unproven, and inexperienced candidate to run an NFL team. For instance, when highly coveted 31-year-old Lane Kiffin was hired by the Oakland Raiders in 2007, he was...
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- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
like to think we can gauge someone's sincerity and commitment by the look in her eyes or the firmness of her handshake. After all, a bargainer who yields to a demand is said to have "blinked." And if we reach agreement, it's...
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by Michael Wheeler
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field experiment in which agents...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
The flight had been arranged by secret military cable. An elaborate code of flares and signal fires was agreed upon, and the US Army Air Force’s 52d Fighter Group staged a midair diversion over the Adriatic Sea. But these attempts at...
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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
leapfrogged U.S. advances. In this dynamic environment, detailed insights such as those developed by Lane and other HBS scholars are essential to understanding the realities of doing business. They provide...
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by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
terminal and one runway, to one of the largest hubs in Asia. By 2019 it was serving 68 million passengers a year from four terminals, with the world’s tallest indoor waterfall and a four-story slide, a shopping and entertainment complex,...
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