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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
need help for the next many months to keep theirs and others’ spirits high so we can keep them for when we recover.” “How to motivate a team that has been furloughed? With our operations totally shut down by the government, we had to...
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- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory Author:Michael Beer Publication:In Research in Organizational Change and Development. Vol. 19, edited by Richard Woodman, William Pasmore, and Abraham B....
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Sean Silverthorne
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Events - Private Capital Project
Perfect Marriage?” with Amitabh Chandra (Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School), Ashvin Gandhi (UCLA Anderson School of Management), and Clay Richards (CEO, naviHealth), moderated by Victoria...
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- December 1998 (Revised June 1999)
- Case
STT Aerospace
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Jeremy Dann
Experienced entrepreneur Charles Damon conducted a "roll-up" from 1987-1994 within the commercial airliner interior products industry. Damon's company, STT Aerospace, took advantage of an industry-wide recession in the early 1990s by buying when asset prices were low....
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Retention;
Business Strategy;
Selection and Staffing;
Entrepreneurship;
Financial Crisis;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Compensation and Benefits;
Employee Stock Ownership Plan;
Acquisition;
Product Development;
Aerospace Industry
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Jeremy Dann. "STT Aerospace." Harvard Business School Case 399-056, December 1998. (Revised June 1999.)
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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
1965 41 By 1943, Edwin Land began to turn his thoughts to the post-war production efforts of Polaroid. The corporation had significantly expanded its research and engineering division for military activities and would need to focus on a...
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- 2007
- Other Unpublished Work
Effects of Inventory on Demand for Rentals in the Home Video Market
By: Ioannis Ioannou, Julie Mortimer and Richard Mortimer
Retailer inventory decisions can greatly influence observed demand for a product by affecting, among other things, product availability (stock-outs) and product visibility in the store. These inventory decisions are affected by numerous factors including vertical...
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- 2017
- Working Paper
Peer Effects on the United States Supreme Court
By: Matthew Lilley, Richard Holden and Michael Keane
Using data on essentially every US Supreme Court decision since 1946, we estimate a model of peer effects on the Court. We consider both the impact of justice ideology and justice votes on the votes of their peers. To identify these peer effects we use two instruments....
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Supreme Court;
Peer Effects;
Voting Behavior;
Legal System;
Courts and Trials;
Voting;
Behavior
Lilley, Matthew, Richard Holden, and Michael Keane. "Peer Effects on the United States Supreme Court." Working Paper, February 2017.
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Jaume Plensa Inés 2013 | About
Lettres, awarded by the French Ministry of Culture, in 1993. In 2009, he won the Mash Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture for his work Dream . In Spain, he received the National Prize for Fine Art in 2012 and the prestigious...
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- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc
Dan Bricklin (right) with his MIT classmate and VisiCalc collaborator Bob Frankston (photo by Richard Chase) Dan Bricklin (right) with his MIT classmate and VisiCalc collaborator Bob Frankston (photo View Details
- June 1993 (Revised December 1995)
- Case
Frito-Lay, Inc.: The Navigator Project (A)
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Richard O. Mason and Melinda Conrad
Provides an overview of the company's recent organizational changes followed by a discussion of the company's new sales promotion software, "Promotion Planner." The president of Frito-Lay's central division must decide how he should proceed with the rollout of this new...
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Information Technology;
Technology Adoption;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Trends;
Innovation Strategy;
Marketing Communications;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Manufacturing Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Richard O. Mason, and Melinda Conrad. "Frito-Lay, Inc.: The Navigator Project (A)." Harvard Business School Case 193-025, June 1993. (Revised December 1995.)
- 30 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Big Media, Big Business! Inside scoop on the upcoming Entertainment & Media Club Conference
Each year, the Entertainment & Media conference at the Harvard Business School brings together hundreds of students, alumni, faculty, and industry leaders to share experience and insight and, most importantly, to learn from each other. View Details
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Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
invest in platform quality in open-source and proprietary two-sided platforms. Open platforms have open access, and developers invest to improve the platform. Proprietary platforms have closed access, and investment is done by the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
Journal reporter Geeta Anand. An early version of the story is also told in the HBS case, “A Father’s Love: Novazyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,” by HBS professor Richard Bohmer and Bradley Campbell (MBA ’02)....
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Entrepreneurs | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
International Robert Higgins Highland Capital Richard Jenrette Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Dean LeBaron Batterymarch Erling Lorentzen Aracruz Dan Lufkin Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Thomas Murphy Capital Cities/ABC Joseph O’Donnell...
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- November 2006 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
HCA, Inc. (A)
Focuses on the buyout of HCA by three private equity firms: Bain Capital, KKR, and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity. It provides an opportunity to discuss a variety of issues related to leveraged buyouts including the process, the role of private equity, the...
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Keywords:
Leveraged Buyouts;
Private Equity;
Investment;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Conflict and Resolution;
Valuation
Ruback, Richard S. "HCA, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 207-076, November 2006. (Revised December 2011.)
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A ‘One Harvard’ Perspective
Richard Ruback was his advisor. “Even before anyone was talking about ‘One Harvard,’ some of us were trying to make it happen,” notes Tunnell, whose 20th Reunion gift supports the HBS-Harvard Integration Fund. Now a managing director at...
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Goldfaden Land, who studied physics, and Harry Land, who ran a scrap metal and real estate business in Connecticut. In high school at the Norwich Free Academy, Land excelled in physics and became enthralled with the classic Physical Optics View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive...
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- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
be displaced in large numbers. Those job losses will be partially offset by job gains for machine learning specialists and emerging jobs like prompt engineers. But, once companies learn how to exploit generative AI, we can anticipate...
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- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311135-PDF-ENG Penn Warranty Corporation Richard S. Ruback and Royce YudkoffHarvard Business School Case 212-007 Penn Warranty Corporation sold warranty contracts to the used-car market....
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Sean Silverthorne