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- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
programming decisions and setting advertising rates? Nielsen had become the gold standard in the broadcast industry and felt confident in their data. Could Bluefin's system provide new insights to marketers and broadcasters? Or would it...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
segment consumers into four different groups: Confident Rejecters, Cautious Optimists, Stoic Skeptics, and Stressed and Strained. The agency then created different messages for each one—for example, emphasizing affordability for the...
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- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
recognized as a result of the bubble—have been those of the analysts who worked in the investment banks. The banks employ two kinds of analysts: Those who issue recommendations about individual firms, and those who try to get investors to buy the stocks. For an...
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
behalf. The partners are confident their long-term returns will validate their investment strategy and positioning in the increasingly competitive VC market. Will investors agree? Purchase this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
offers consumers an extra benefit: online payments tend to create records documenting the fact of a customer's purchase; consumers of free content may feel more confident that their purchases will remain confidential. More broadly,...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
Harvard's Center for International Development, has confidence that Liberia has the ability to strike a balance between growth and stability. Among the strengths working in its favor, he says, are transparency and macroeconomic stability....
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by Kim Girard
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
elsewhere. Thirdly, foreign firms during the post-war decades lived in awe of the alleged superiority of U.S. managers, and it was not until the 1980s that European firms began to feel sufficiently confident to intervene and take greater...
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by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
Silicon Valley software developers and technological innovations such as autonomous vehicles, aggressive marketing strategies, and cutthroat poaching practices—all of which forced number three competitor Sidecar out by January 2016—Fasten’s leadership felt View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
teaching leadership development programs (and even members of a leadership team inside a business), to feel confident in their ability to teach any of the class sessions, modules, or the entire course," Sucher explains. We asked...
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- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
the confidence and skill to analyze the viability of innovations in terms of their technological, public policy, and structural impact and to have a sure sense of the mood of consumers who, all over the world, are deeply interested in...
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- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
of what it takes to launch the business? Do women invest less because they lack confidence in their businesses or the size of the opportunities? Do they have reservations about their ability to see the venture through hard times? Is their...
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- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
inspected employers experienced a 9.4% decline in injury rates (95% confidence interval = -0.177 to -0.021) and a 26% reduction in injury cost (95% confidence interval = -0.513 to -0.083). We find no...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
self-compassion, authenticity, and, ultimately, self-actualization. How do True North Groups help people develop as leaders? An important part of self-awareness is accepting yourself—your weaknesses as well as your strengths—and having View Details
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by Bill George
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted, investors covered their eyes, consumers' View Details
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by Staff
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
GUIDES is an easily remembered framework that can help the business leader and student to confidently and quickly identify, organize, and interpret a country's key economic indicators. Alternatively, it can help them to evaluate...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
"A" awarded by the company auditor in his thirty years at Unocal. Now a production foreman, Thompson still lives and works in Van, just like always. "We are all blue-collar guys, we all like what we do, and we all feel View Details
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by Theodore Kinni
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Alan Morrison Abstract—Existing studies suggest that systemic crises may arise because banks either hold correlated assets or are connected by interbank lending. This paper shows that common regulation is also a conduit for interbank contagion. One bank's failure may...
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Anna Secino
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
we say "educate leaders," what kinds of leaders are we talking about? he asked. "If we are interested in educating leaders whom others declare to be leaders, we have to recognize that people only call someone a leader if they feel View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
lack of trust in government officials," he explained. "There is no point in adding services over a foundation we don't trust. The number-one priority of Data.gov should be to restore confidence in our government. The average...
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- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
procurement manager's statement about trust communicates relational information about the level of confidence between the parties. Relational acts can either bring the parties together or divide them. In this case, the fact that the...
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by Kathleen L. McGinn