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- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
considering selling its royalty interest in Enbrel, Amgen's blockbuster drug for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. In assessing whether to sell, and at what price, the hospital must determine its value to a potential buyer as well as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
Communication, ends with looking at IR strategies, and I was searching for a suitable example to round it off and help students see the potential for even more growth. This BP situation seemed like a great opportunity to look at the View Details
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
the field of office machinery and home appliance, for instance, relied on a trained sales force to introduce their innovations to potential customers—the adding machine, cash register, typewriter, refrigerator, and vacuum cleaner, to name... View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
framework is their degree of fungibility: capabilities span a continuum ranging from highly general purpose (e.g., quality management) to highly market specific (e.g., knowing how to manufacture an airplane wing). To illustrate the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
expenditures, (e) leverage, and (f) profitability ratios. We show that SBPs are not constrained by standard industry classification and are more dynamic, pliable, and concentrated. Our results highlight the potential of the collective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
year. Early research shows that students in schools led by NLNS principals are outperforming their peers, but Fenton remains driven by his vision of a system-wide, scalable model for education reform that recognizes the achievement View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
useful and saleable by-product. The term "by-product synergy" (BPS) has been coined to describe this practice. By converting waste into by-product, the firm not only reduces its waste disposal cost and potentially increases... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper helps balance the literature via comparative analysis of the potential contributions of two voluntary sustainability certification programs for artisanal and small-scale gold mining... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
rate of 37% is fairly close to the model's estimated welfare-maximizing taxation rate of 42%. Reducing corruption provides the largest potential impact for welfare gain through its impact on the uses of tax revenues. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
considered for any high-performing players. However, for Japanese stars, there is also the potential to attract significant fandom from the local Japanese community. This represents an opportunity for truly incremental local revenue for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
reach its aggressive growth targets. In the summer of 2016, after an intense few months of talks with potential investors, Ozbugutu was looking at five competitive term sheets from funds with great fintech know-how and emerging-markets... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
ethics is to study why good people do bad things,” she says. Even when people have good intentions, she notes, it can lead to bad outcomes. “Often we fail to appreciate when cumulatively our transgressions become something that becomes larger and View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
"Carolinas Healthcare employs 120 staff working on data analytics, a big strategic investment but a major potential point of differentiation in the quest to both cut costs and improve patient outcomes" Quelch says. Other... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
decouple: money ("How much more cheaply can I buy it?"); effort ("How much more difficult will it be to get it?"); and time ("How long will I have to wait for it?") Different people may place different value on those factors, he says, some View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
research; Giusti worried if charging for some of its functions would be at odds with its mission and historical practices. She worked with her executive team to examine potential sources of revenue and to decide if this was the right... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
school students do have a role in these industries, and being part of cultural change is potentially within their grasp. To think about how companies have dealt with this power in the past is the important thing. To think about whether... View Details
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
result of the efforts of two fledgling local entrepreneurs with a business model they believe can achieve a substantial and profitable share of a potential $150 million market. With the backdrop of the 2002 banking crisis, the governing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
should help you identify when to incorporate careful, reasoned analysis into your negotiation judgments. We realize that our recommendations run counter to the implicit trust and confidence that many of us have in our intuition. However, the data is clear: with the use... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
potential market, with new technology, and with a very different kind of market—processed foods—he built a brand on a different set of benefits, and with different sources of differentiation. The rotunda at Marshall Field's State Street... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2024
- Book
Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead
defensive back, and maybe he saw some innate coaching potential (my superpower) in the way I interacted with the other kids. Whatever the case may be, that capability, especially that coaching and encouraging potential, was the groundwork... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman