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- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
and value of specific interstate relations. Results indicate that network-weaving organizations are easier to operate when they encompass proximate and similar actors, yet they also reap rewards for bringing together otherwise...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
Allocation Problem How to Grow: Organic vs. Inorganic Growth Distributing Cash to Shareholders Distribution Motivations Featured Exercises Capital allocation decision tree analysis Weigh value of dividends...
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- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
us. As Amazon has grown in scale and complexity, we would have anticipated that Bezos found less and less time to directly contribute to patents. However, our findings suggest that Bezos has found more value in patenting over the years,...
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- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
Book of the Year and connected finance with the humanities. The book sets out to demystify finance and instill both curiosity and confidence, helping readers answer fundamental questions like: What do financial ratios reveal about a company? How much View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
kind of social contract, a promise of a certain mix of quality (D1), service (D2), novelty (D3), and reliability (D4) that adds up to a value that justifies the price. Of course, shareholders have always...
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant....
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- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
What’s a company’s purpose? Too often it has been hijacked by one extreme or the other claiming it’s either the unbridled pursuit of profit on behalf of shareholders or it’s anything but profit. I also take issue with the idea that...
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
could the report provide a clearer representation of the organization's strategy and its ability to create and sustain value over the long-term? And finally, how could web-based technologies be used to promote the organization's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University...
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by Avery Forman
- Web
Globalization - Faculty & Research
Development ; Success ; Performance Efficiency ; Strategic Planning ; Research and Development ; Risk and Uncertainty ; Business Strategy ; Competitive Advantage ; Value Creation ; Health Industry ; Israel Citation Educators Purchase...
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- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Social Behavior By: Crockett, Molly J., and Amy Cuddy Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49863 October 2015 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Men as Cultural Ideals: Cultural View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
and Governance at Yahoo! Inc. Yahoo! faces a number of governance and strategic challenges in late 2011 as it tries to compete with rivals such as Google and find ways to monetize its shareholding and business links with Alibaba Group in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
an entrant needs to strategically choose whether to reveal its innovation by competing through the new business model or conceal it by adopting a traditional business model. We also show that the value of business model innovation may be...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
2010 terms, as a share of national income) were scheduled to revert to Colombian ownership in that year. The money to buy them for the new canal effort, then, would have gone to Bogotá instead of the shareholders in the moribund French...
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- 20 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
reporting on results and management's decisions. Surprise Six: Pleasing Shareholders Is Not The Goal Warning signs: Executives and board members judge actions by their effect on stock price. Analysts who don't understand the business push...
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- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
authors say. The book explains how power can be shared more evenly among citizens, employees, top executives, and shareholders for the betterment of individuals, organizations, and institutions around the world. "The motive for the book...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Investing. Dan Levitan (MBA 1983), Maveron, LLC Dan Levitan and his partner Howard Schultz co-founded Maveron in 1998. Levitan and Schultz, who shared the same philosophies about what makes a great company and powerful consumer brand, wanted to bring to fruition their...
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- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
syndicates, the study says. Public companies also typically require more infrastructure and legal support to handle shareholder and regulatory demands. “For a lot of entrepreneurs, it's just about the term sheet and how much equity...
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by Rachel Layne
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
their shareholder votes. Meanwhile, several NGOs have built certifications and other monitoring and assessment tools to understand how companies are progressing against their targets. This panel will explore the different mechanisms and...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner
Does that influence its working atmosphere? Probably. It's much less political and more collaborative. Power is not much of an ingredient in the day-to-day activities here, but values are. But I don't know what degree of that is women and...
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