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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
world and capture relevant management information. In 2007, ProntoWash, an international car-wash company based in Argentina, was planning for rapid growth through a combination of owned and franchised operations. CEO Sergio Kompel needed...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808138 Connectivity in Health Care Harvard Business School Note 307-047 This note describes the current state of information technology connectivity in the health care sector....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
services. In making strategic decisions around technology commercialization, managers often assume that the intellectual property environment and the architecture of the industry are beyond their control. This need not be so. This article...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
example, the team could devise a plan that would break up solitary work by building in regularly scheduled or periodic face-to-face interactions. In the event that in-person contact is not possible, View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
contribution is tax-deductible in the contribution year, but both principal and investment earnings are taxed upon withdrawal. Using administrative data from 11 companies that added a Roth contribution option to their existing 401(k) plan...
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- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Management Strategy Ex-Ante Agreements in Standard Setting and Patent Pool Formation By: Llanes, Gastón, and Joaquín Poblete Abstract—We present a model of standard setting and patent-pool formation. We study the effects of alternative standard-setting and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Skydeck contributing host Chitra Nawbatt (GMP 6, 2009). “A really capable team who's got real authority and stature inside the company, who's putting together a real plan with real goals that are going to be held accountable based on...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
humility―ironically dwindles daily. Even as we become more technologically connected, many of us feel increasingly disconnected and disengaged from each other. Civility Rules! offers an opportunity to learn about the history, substance,...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Publishing) How do marketing managers assess the potential for global expansion and help their firms capitalize on opportunities? This book explores which companies and products should expand internationally, what countries offer the best opportunities, and which...
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- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
technology company, for about 10 years and sold it to another company. We then took that company public. And along the way, I was advising the White House Business Council, and I had worked on innovation policy and economic policy. And...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
playbook—maybe in even a larger and more extreme way. It’s what in military circles people call “fighting the last war.” This is a familiar trap, when military planners become so obsessed with the last war that they focus all of their View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
assets, including customer relationships; innovative products and services; high-quality and responsive operating processes; skills and knowledge of the workforce; the information technology that supports the workforce and links the firm...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
Hewlett-Packard Company's Personal Systems Group (PSG), gathered his thoughts before a meeting with his top executives and managers for product design and marketing. On the agenda was a discussion of strategic next steps for the group. Hewlett-Packard (HP), a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
19th-century textile mogul Francis Cabot Lowell, oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, and technology titan Bill Gates. "It was a great way to start the program, because it gave us a background and context for what's happening in business...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608038 Excerpts from Interview with Jim Triandiflou, Founder of Ockham Technologies Harvard Business School Case 808-088 Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a...
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- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
We plan on bringing them all back as soon as we are allowed to reopen, but for now they have no income from the company. Many in our industry laid off their employees, we did not.” “How to keep executives motivated who were asked to take...
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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
We plan on bringing them all back as soon as we are allowed to reopen, but for now they have no income from the company. Many in our industry laid off their employees, we did not.” “How to keep executives motivated who were asked to take...
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- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
major advances in energy technology it is unlikely that the world will be able to reduce green-house gas emissions rapidly enough to avoid a substantial increase in the risk of significant climate change. This book hopes to contribute to...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
technological competence in the schools, infrastructure, friendliness to foreign visitors, and marketing the region to the world," explains Kanter. Commission member Paul Guzzi, president of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, views...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry