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- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
Policy,” in which University of Michigan Professor Andrew J. Hoffman wrote, “One of the reasons (among many) that the public discourse on critical scientific issues of our day has become so confused is that too many academics, according...
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- August 2013 (Revised December 2014)
- Case
Taking Dell Private
By: David J. Collis, David B. Yoffie and Matthew Shaffer
In July 2012, Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell, Inc., met with a representative of Silver Lake Partners to explore taking his company private. The company, which he had founded in his dorm room as a college freshman and which had made him the youngest Fortune 500...
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Strategy;
Going Private;
The PC Market;
Market For Corporate Control;
Corporate Strategy;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Change Management;
Private Equity;
Market Entry and Exit;
Private Ownership;
Information Infrastructure;
Applications and Software;
Internet and the Web;
Computer Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
Collis, David J., David B. Yoffie, and Matthew Shaffer. "Taking Dell Private." Harvard Business School Case 714-421, August 2013. (Revised December 2014.)
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
for the creation of jobs and wealth among urban families. Moderator Randall Pinkett of M.I.T. Laboratory Anne Habiby, executive vice president of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national nonprofit founded by HBS professor...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
Common sense had its defenders. C. J. Cullinane commented that "Common sense and experience for all their faults are fast." Phil Clark added that "how man reacts to a situation is driven by...
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by James Heskett
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
attaining quotas; and (3) quarterly bonuses help improve performance of the weak performers by serving as pacers to keep the sales force on track to achieve their annual sales quotas. The paper also introduces two main methodological...
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Anna Secino
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
we rely less on so-called "experts" and "stars"? In short, should we be spending more time examining our true decision-making abilities and the things that influence our results, i.e., more time "thinking twice" than "blinking"?...
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by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Cheng, J. Yo-Jud, and Boris Groysberg Abstract—: Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
however, as interesting as the phenomenon described by Annabelle Gawer and Michael Cusumano in their book, Platform Leadership. They include: Did platform leaders set out to create vehicles View Details
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by James Heskett
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
organizations. Despite their fundamental role in the purpose of organizations, scholars have little understanding of actual interaction patterns in modern, complex, multiunit firms. By Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart, and View Details
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by Staff
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
respondents. Shann Turnbull points out that "National governments can deal with globalisation as they can determine the rules of ownership and control applicable in their jurisdictions." Nevertheless, he proposes the creation of a "Community Investment...
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by Jim Heskett
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
Publications August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The Art of Strategic Renewal By: Binns, Andy, J. Bruce Harreld, Charles A. O'Reilly, and Michael L. Tushman Abstract—In recent years, we have seen...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
for cadavers. Anteby's current research examines the morality of markets by focusing on the U.S. supply and demand of cadavers for medical research and education.) Anyone who has been trained as a physician—or is close to someone who has...
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- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
new book edited by Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan pulls back the covers. Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience, To support black employees, business leaders must challenge biases and help employees be...
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by Staff
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Institutional Investors Frame Their Losses: Evidence on Dynamic Loss Aversion from Currency Portfolios Authors:Kenneth A. Froot, J. Arabadjis, S. Cates, and S. Lawrence Publication:Journal of Portfolio Management (forthcoming) Abstract...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
http://www.ftpress.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132779781 Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Publication:Management Science (forthcoming)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
Negative) Experiences: Risk-Seeking in the Domain of Gains? Authors:Jolie Mae Martin, Gregory M. Barron, and Michael I. Norton Abstract In contrast to research which has conflated losses with negative experiences and gains with positive...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
with the direction of the company under Iger’s predecessor, Michael Eisner; and Comcast had made a $54 billion hostile bid to take over Disney only one year before. The situation for Disney looked bleak. Yet View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
Authors:Michael E. Porter, Christian H. M. Ketels, and Mercedes Delgado-Garcia Publication:In Global Competitiveness Report2006-2007, edited by Augusto Lopez-Claros, Michael E. Porter, Xavier Sala-i-Martin,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max H. Bazerman. If you have resolved to exercise more, try ignoring what your peers...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2003
- What Do You Think?
Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?
an interesting concept of the importance of a "national brand."—Jim Heskett Others, while agreeing with this thesis, were not so sanguine about whether this will happen without greater efforts to influence foreign policy by...
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by James Heskett