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- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
examples such as TripAdvisor, Wikipedia, and the New York Times, the authors offer strategies for competing in markets with network effects. New entrants should focus on customer groups that they are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
cofounded a telecommunications company. I Quit, and Choose Work That Aligns with My Soul by Karyn Pettigrew (MBA 1990) (KPConsulting) A motivational speaker, coach, and consultant, Pettigrew helps people align their careers with work that complements their talents.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
a comprehensive sample of shareholder activism between 2004 and 2011, we find that directors are almost twice as likely to leave over a two-year period if the firm is the subject of a shareholder activist campaign. While it has been argued that proxy contests are an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
their membership. This year's candidates are: Aida M. Alvarez, AB '71 cum laude. Small Business Administration. Washington, DC. Franklin W. Hobbs, AB '69 magna cum laude, MBA '72. Former Chairman, Warburg Dillon Read. New York, NY. Andrew... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Capitalism: Volume 2. The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present Firms and Global Capitalism By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This chapter forms part of the two-volume Cambridge History of Capitalism, a definitive new reference work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
As you read this, the HBS campus will again be bustling with students as well as with alumni returning for fall reunions. During the summer break, the Board of Directors remained active, holding its annual executive committee meeting in View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
systematically give lower scores to research proposals closer to their own areas of expertise and to highly novel research proposals. We interpret the empirical patterns in relation to a range of theoretical mechanisms and discuss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
within markets: When sentiment is high, future returns are low on relatively difficult to arbitrage and difficult to value stocks. Private capital flows appear to be one mechanism by which sentiment spreads across markets and forms global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Samuel J. Lefrak
Lefrak was the first private company participating in city-financed housing projects in the United States. His company completed several housing projects, such as King’s Bay in Brooklyn, Parc Vendome in Queens, and Lefrak City, a 40-acre, $150 million housing... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
These changes did not—as often assumed—result in the decline of family businesses but instead gave rise to a different kind of competitive and internationally oriented "Mittelstand." The study integrates approaches from new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the conferences themselves. Over the next few months, the group will look carefully at the best-practices guide and think about ways in which the mechanics of hosting a conference can be streamlined rather than reinvented with each View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
engage in instrumental networking influences how dirty this networking makes them feel. Three laboratory experiments and a survey study of lawyers in a large North American law firm provide support for our predictions. We call for a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Lothar W. Faber
Faber improved the Eberhard-Faber Company’s product line by adding fountain pens, mechanical pencils, and refill leads. Faber also invented the clamp tip type of pencil with a removable, adjustable eraser. Faber grew the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
find new and important ways to add value for our alumni constituency. The Alumni Association Board of Directors meets three times a year on campus, as well as at each annual Global Alumni Conference. At these meetings we hear about View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
of 10‐year sustainability‐related goals. In an effort to meet such goals, the company invested a total of $1 billion in environmentally beneficial products such as new seeds and traits in Dow's AgroSciences business, solar shingles, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
of lively conversations before I took this job - mostly about ideas, rather than mechanics - and those discussions have continued. Neil and I share similar views on the School and its opportunities, so our relationship is on a sound... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
process innovation. Prior research has focused on the alignment between new technologies and the internal capabilities of firms to pursue them. I extend the investigation to include external capabilities as well. I develop a framework for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
experience working with one another—is one mechanism that helps teams leverage the benefits of variation in team experience by alleviating coordination problems that variation creates. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Willis H. Carrier
Carrier was a pioneer in the field of mechanical refrigeration. Perfecting an air cooling system, Carrier first introduced air conditioning to theaters in the 1930’s and later went on to develop elaborate, but affordable, air conditioning... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods