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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
and in government, to rapidly rising incomes and tax revenues. We haven't had that for twenty years, and now blue-collar and middle-class people sense those days may be gone forever. You state that high wages are a key component of a productive economy. By View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
industry’s growth from a small base in the U.S. North-east in the 1960s to today’s highly visible role in economies all over the world. Brooke lays out his vision for the industry as an essential element of economic growth and...
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- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
discussion. That's because the authors lay out for us the full context of a situation: the fast friendships, bitter enmities, strong ambitions, and confused goals that the characters must navigate. This feels like reality to us—it's how...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
chanting at a nearby monastery. Following their love of travel, their desire to spend meaningful family time together, and the belief that a trip around the world would offer their kids an education they couldn't possibly get in a...
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Margie Kelley
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
contribution to Asia's economic progress and the characteristics (and limitations) of a leading university, Professor Emeritus Daniel Quinn Mills lays out his recommendations for building a world-class university in Asia, including how to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
note. Nohria explained his belief that people’s life stories deeply influence the way they conduct themselves as leaders. In his own case, he described the profound effect his father, the CEO of a large electrical equipment manufacturing...
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Roger Thompson
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
corporate treasuries for their self enrichment." To what degree will entrepreneurial capitalism be the antidote to both managers' and owners' capitalism? Are we about to see a rebirth of Schumpeter and his belief in the power of...
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
policymaker in Europe last week, and he confirmed the Japanese auto industry’s belief that its supply chain in the United States would be disrupted should the three automakers fail. That’s because key suppliers are dependent on having a...
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- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
non-stereotypical characteristic. A reluctance to discriminate emerges if workers share the gender or birth month of the worker from the worse-performing group, but even then, a small “excuse" counters this reluctance. Thus, our evidence points to an important...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
public response.” Most of the cost of a subway system comes from the guideway—digging tunnels, building stations, laying track. And when you look at that track, it's usually empty. Every ten minutes a train sweeps by, and then the track...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
League graduate school and then working internationally in a senior leadership role.” But as Jefferson lay in a bed at Tripler Medical Center in Hawaii, where he was flown for emergency surgery, those possibilities seemed very far away....
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Robert S. Benchley
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
with the company’s president one day, the man suggested that Ross go to HBS. “It was an unbelievable experience,” Freeman recalls. “Competing against such a talented group of people, at that level, really helped me gain self-confidence and a View Details
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
Nohria explained his belief that people's life stories deeply influence the way they conduct themselves as leaders. In his own case, he described the profound effect his father, the CEO of a large electrical equipment manufacturing...
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Jason A. Kilar
employees, Bezos was unknown and unheralded. When he got up to close the case and give his point of view, he laughed out loud and told the class that he completely understood their belief that he would fail. But he was clearly undaunted...
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- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Downsizing? By: Cohen, Lauren, Joshua D. Coval, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—While we commend the initiative of Snyder and Welch (2017), we lay out in this short reply why we remain highly confident in our results and our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
this volume of essays come about? What surprised you most in the array of research and insights you were able to assemble from your colleagues? Jones: The origins of the project lay with my current research on the worldwide evolution of...
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by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
perspective, he says the 2008 crisis can be seen through the lenses of bad beliefs and bad incentives—the latter being the idea that there was a common understanding of risk in the financial system, but people were motivated to ignore the...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
years later, he’s still at Accel and can lay claim to one of the most storied careers in the venture industry: 25 companies that have completed IPOs or successful mergers; directorships with Wal-Mart Stores, Marvel Entertainment, and...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
the lengthy rehearsals leading up to a production of Tennessee Williams’s classic play A Streetcar Named Desire. Austin and Devin then draw parallels to the ways in which path-breaking companies, such as Sun Microsystems, promote innovative activity in business....
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- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
selective aspects of punishment in the U.S. over the period 1980-2004. We note that imprisonment increased around 1980, a period that coincides with the "Reagan revolution" in economic matters. We build an economic model where View Details
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Sean Silverthorne