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- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
board. If there's a family that maybe has a daughter who's dealing with cancer, as we do, we'll lift her in prayer. So we pray. And then I pitch a question, just very much like at HBS, to sort of engage the audience. Again, to bring them...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
value systems, and their courage in dealing with a variety of challenges," remarks Gibson, who interviewed 29 alumnae for her dissertation, Bridging the Charles: The First Women Graduates of the Harvard Business School, 1960–1965 (Drew...
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Hanna, Julia
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
would intrude ever more deeply and more precisely into consumer lives than broadcast media had been able to. Instead, the transformation is unfolding on a model of consumer empowerment, in which consumers use digital media to communicate with one another and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The...
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- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
people. The rollout of the new technology is garnering a good deal of public attention, not just for the unfamiliar new “dialing” process that customers are required to learn, but also because of the mass layoffs of the women who served...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
increases one’s bargaining power. A minimally necessary condition for an agreement to be mutually acceptable is that each side prefers the deal to its BATNA. Thus, how well each party’s BATNA serves its interests determines whether a zone...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
gastrointestinal clinics to help its patients deal with the conditions that frequently co-occur with cystic fibrosis, as well as lung transplantation program for cystic fibrosis patients that has achieved a 76 percent one-year survival...
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- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
the advantage of SSOs for users? For tech companies? A: The key advantage is that it allows them to coordinate with other firms in a way that might be very difficult if they had to negotiate individual deals on a one-by-one basis. For...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
your own, authentic way. Whatever your field or family structure, you will learn to cope with transitions at home and at work, deal with guilt and worry, negotiate for advancement and flexibility, and much more. Written by Daisy Dowling,...
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Margie Kelley
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
more than managerial hierarchies, immigrants and diaspora were critical sources of entrepreneurship, illegal and informal forms of business were commonplace, diversified business groups rather than the M-form became the major form of large-scale business, corporate...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
decided to purchase a small business after graduating from the Harvard Business School. The case explores his decision about whether or not he should finalize his deal to purchase Great Eastern Premium Pet Foods, Inc. (GEPP). It gives...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
efficiency also had more conventional paths to market based on licensing deals to large seed companies. Alternatively, Arcadia could acquire a seed company and develop and market its seed directly. A different near-term growth area...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
These contractual devices provide insurance to the shareholders of the target and may protect the buyer as well. The purpose of this note is to define the main categories of price protection and explain their impact on the payoffs and value of the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Mylan, opposed the deal and sued Perry for alleged vote buying. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209097 Online Restaurant Promotions Harvard Business School Case 909-034 A variety of...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
management science. It was intended to use a lot of mathematics and probability, statistics, and so on, dealing with risky decisions. And in 1956, he had written this book with Duncan Luce called Games and Decisions, which was the...
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- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
however, even though Trian lost the battle, it eventually won the war. The close vote shook up DuPont’s complacent managers and shareholders, and the company, with the help of investors, eventually brokered a deal to merge with rival Dow...
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- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
given difficulties at the portfolio companies and disruptions in credit markets. The case takes the perspective of a private equity firm evaluating the deal to determine whether buying leveraged loans is a good investment opportunity....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
effective reforms of the acquisition process. High federal deficits at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, the continuing need for a strong defense, and a growing awareness of the need to deal more effectively with...
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- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
on Friday and Saturday nights. Vacations were no better: 51 percent checked continuously when on vacation. If they lost their wireless device and couldn't replace it for a week, 44 percent of those surveyed said they would experience "a great View Details
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by Leslie A. Perlow
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
find that maybe that wasn't such a bad thing to do," Simons remarks. "It's given other people the time to stretch themselves and added a dimension to the organization that wouldn't have existed otherwise." While the program demands a great View Details