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- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
expand on how firms can break free from the grip of what he refers to as the Devil's Triangle. Sean Silverthorne: Describe the Devil's Triangle and how it can hinder a firm's ability to grow. Frank Cespedes: We use this as a metaphor for View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
crippling civil conflict: Sri Lanka is at a pivotal moment in its history, he says, a moment that represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do no less than help shape his country’s future. He turns back to the lake, framing the view...
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- 06 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales
items didn’t seem to act as competing alternatives to the buyer. Instead, a cohesive display provided a general frame for the decision, keeping the buyer fixated on the question of whether to buy something in that product category. More...
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Turnarounds and Transformation
advanced research screening. Change date range to desired time frame Search for turnaround in the title of the report Limit results to company reports Exclude non-broker research Add additional filters as needed ABI/Proquest: View Details
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Building Web 3 Businesses - Course Catalog
digital brand-building, media, gaming, identity, and more! Course Content & Organization The course will mostly be framed around case discussions on a range of Web3 ventures, with numerous in-class guests including Web3 entrepreneurs,...
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- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
increase in information technology purchases. Wulf notes that the 1986-1999 time frame was especially significant in terms of corporate technology. The 1990s marked an era when PC prices started falling, when dot-com companies started...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing
into different areas of the company, Kristen strongly recommends considering how you frame your LDP. “If you are bringing a student right into a general management role but plan to rotate them into different groups, don’t call the program...
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Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
to what will replace Fannie and Freddie. The administration has outlined three options designed to frame the congressional debate expected to unfold over the months ahead: (1)privatization of the mortgage market, (2) new private,...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
frame the bay view from the piazza, and the sizable chunk of a Civil War cannon that came to rest in the sturdy house's attic after being blown apart by the Confederates as Union troops approached. "We get a lot of requests from...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
care. Also, there are huge differences in quality across providers and across geography that persist. For us, this framed the problem: How could we have a high-cost system that also has poor quality? In a world of normal competition, that...
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- 09 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace
productive, safe, or innovative path. However, when leaders reframe failure as an opportunity for growth, acknowledging failure in an effort to solve problems becomes engrained in the culture and employees become more resilient. Inviting Participation After setting the...
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- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
about making money, but about managing it. "Financial literacy is not something that exists in the inner city," he said. Foxworth said that any conversation about working hard and staying in school must be framed in terms of...
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- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
the Eureka Story, the Mad Scientist Story, the Survey Story, the Prediction Story, and the "Here's What Happened" Story. The excerpt focuses on the first two. —Sean Silverthorne book excerpt Framing The Problem From: Keeping Up...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
the restoration. The original mahogany window frames in this vast space have been replaced with historically accurate matches and brought up to code with double-glazed panes. The room’s restoration involved many highly specialized...
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- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the Process of Innovation
Collins is setting his sights on the home and garden business. Clayton Christensen, professor at Harvard Business School, uses this case to frame the central questions for anyone trying to understand the sources of innovation, and what...
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by Loren Gray
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
fictional, the descriptive events bear such close resemblance to reality that the reader is left with an informed perspective on the people, the culture, and the day-to-day business realities within China.” When asked what motivated him to write a novel about China,...
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- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
get for their money. Price framing can be used as a tool to induce consumers to acknowledge additional points of differentiation. Partitioning a price in the hope that consumers will be fooled and overlook small fees will backfire.
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- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
paper provides an update on the current state of in-house agencies. Whereas traditional consideration of internalizing advertising services was framed as a binary choice of build or buy, today's advertisers frequently pursue hybrid...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-005.pdf The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras Authors:Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas Abstract New industries sparked by...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
on foreign income; it is undertaking a serious reexamination of that now. In terms of the political debate, the ability to defer U.S. taxation until profits are repatriated is often framed as providing an incentive to ship jobs overseas....
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by Sean Silverthorne