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- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
a major role in Japan's success in manufacturing-driven industries (e.g., Toyota in automobiles and Nintendo with videogames). First, hierarchical industry organizations can "lock out" certain types of innovation indefinitely by perpetuating established View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
company's, and his, legacy will be after declaring bankruptcy despite a cultural turnaround and successful operations. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/610061-PDF-ENG The Last DVD Format War? Andrei...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
efficiently in the presence of the firm than in its absence. PDF not available. Cases & Course MaterialsAmorePacific Harvard Business School Note 507-070 Describes the dominant firm in the Korean cosmetics market up to the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
There is no more important decision a board can make than naming a CEO. Yet most companies pay scant attention to the issue of succession other than a few whispered names in the hallways. The result? The hiring of an outsider who quickly gets mired in View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
senior executives specializing in everything except sales. “The number of executives reporting to the CEO in the average S&P 500 company has doubled in the last 20 years,” says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Oct 2009
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?
concludes that "These are terribly important questions with no easy answers." Bill George, former Chairman and CEO of Medtronic and now a professor at the Harvard Business School, thinks he knows the answers. George lays out the...
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by Jim Heskett
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
Double-digit long-term growth might justify bragging rights for any country. But a turbocharged GDP comes at a price, says Eric D. Werker, an associate professor in the Business, Government and International Economy unit at Harvard View Details
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by Kim Girard
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
ladders up to unload our bags,” recalls McFarlan, the School’s Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and a tactful bridge builder who has played a key role in launching and guiding several collaborative...
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by Deborah Blagg
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur
discussion at the 2001 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference. When Marc Levine was asked to head up an internal start-up at electronics equipment maker Teradyne Corporation, he jumped at the opportunity. And it paid off...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
by such great managers as August Thyssen, Alfred Krupp, and Werner Siemens. Professor Jeffrey Fear's book Organizing Control: August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management overturns some of our preconceptions of German View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
We all know the importance of mentors and other early career experiences in shaping the kind of leaders we ultimately become. But how important to that development are the particular companies we work for? For Harvard Business School...
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by Mallory Stark
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
and scale of this unique global corporation. Geoffrey Jones, a leading business historian from the Harvard Business School, takes us inside this corporation, which from its origins in Britain and the...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
long-term study of successful CEOs, some of them outlined in the August 2008 Harvard Business Review article, "The Uncompromising Leader," cowritten with Russell A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
efforts to redesign workspaces and processes so they are better integrated with patients' needs. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-023.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School...
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Sean Silverthorne