Filter Results
:
(338)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(596)
- People (3)
- News (164)
- Research (338)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (158)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(596)
- People (3)
- News (164)
- Research (338)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (158)
Sort by
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
forecasting; supply chain speed; inventory planning; and gathering accurate, available data. The following excerpt from their report in the Harvard Business Review shows how some of these companies are making the most of the data...
View Details
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
NPEs', and that NPEs typically target firms that are busy with other (non-IP related) lawsuits or are likely to settle. Lastly, we show that NPE litigation has a negative real impact on the future innovative activity of targeted firms....
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database. The comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how both the entry rate and the distribution of entry sizes for new startups responded to changes in banking competition. Moreover, we distinguish the...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138794313/ January 2015 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Strategic Disclosure: The Case of Business School Rankings By: Luca, Michael, and Jonathan Smith Abstract—We empirically...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
across divisions, and members discovered areas in which they could combine forces to tackle new business opportunities. Gillette's complex organizational matrix meant that many operations issues arose at the intersection of groups—for...
View Details
Keywords:
by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
considerable heterogeneity in the role of FDI. First, multinationals located in countries that experienced sharper declines in aggregate output, demand, and credit conditions displayed a greater advantage over local firms. Multinationals View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
the (A) case. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/113093-PDF-ENG SANY: Going Global Lal, Rajiv, Stefan Lippert, Nancy Hua Dai, and Di DengHarvard Business School Case 513-058 April 17, 2012, was a special day for SANY Group and for...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
today's breakneck world, who has the time for such things?" Several cited the difficulty of selecting a new CEO, particularly from within, given the changing nature of the needs of a modern corporation. As Veronica Serrano put it, "it is easier to get from...
View Details
Keywords:
Re: James L. Heskett
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
magazine, a well-read US publication devoted to in-depth stories on music, politics, and pop culture, featured Murdoch at the top of its list of politicians or business executives that "hindered progress on global warming." The...
View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
brave new world. The transformation ignited by the Internet is creating a new paradigm in the financial services industry, characterized by surprising business structures. "The competitive landscape is changing dramatically," says Dwight...
View Details
Keywords:
by Susan Young
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
because of what they did, but because of what they are? That's the question that intrigued Jonas Heese, who recently joined Harvard Business School as an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management unit. While earning his PhD in...
View Details
Keywords:
by Michael Blanding
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
around the world. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Advanced-Leadership-Pathw/an/313116-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-702 Havas: Change Faster As of 2013, Havas was the sixth largest global advertising, digital, and...
View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented a highly decentralized View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: Should they go it alone or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake....
View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
donor and grateful recipient, toward deeper, strategic alliances. These changes are already under way, and the changing alliance landscape is rich in variety, with businesses and nonprofits from Boston to Seattle finding new ways to work...
View Details
Keywords:
by James Austin
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
between the management scores of autonomous government schools and regular government schools is accounted for by differences in the principal's leadership and better governance. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/rsadun/Management_Schools_November2014.pdf...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
4,646 public companies in many industries, headquartered in 46 countries during 2005-2008, when environmental disclosure increased among many global corporations. Controlling for a host of organizational, industry, and national...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
Results also show that third-party sellers affected by Amazon's entry appear to be discouraged from growing their businesses on the platform subsequently. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2533616 Cases & Course...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
The success of American Home Products reflects a unique path of learning. The company originated with the merger of several companies in related businesses. During the seventy years following its formation in 1926, the company's senior managers at their View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
dealer of loose gemstones in 1969 in Jaipur, India. By the 2000s, it was headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and had expanded into diamonds and retail. The family business was now in its second...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne