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- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
largely emphasizes the collective benefits of market creation and overlooks the costs borne by individual evangelists. Through an inductive multiple-case study of five startup competitors, we traced firms’ efforts to stake out a new online View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
at many non-financial firms have highlighted a "low-leverage puzzle" and raised questions about the implications of cash holdings for corporate investment and economic growth. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016
the midpoint among the seven peer schools tracked by HBS. Tuition and fee revenues do not fully recover MBA Program operating expenses at HBS, much less the School’s long-term investments in academic innovation. The shortfall is offset... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
School Senior Lecturer Robert Pozen, formerly chairman of MFS Investment Management, endorses these ideas as well in his book, Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours. His basic advice: "Set and prioritize your... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Sadun Abstract—Many senior executives struggle to describe how they make strategic decisions. That’s a serious problem since the process for making strategic decisions can shape the strategy itself. To... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
Hourdequin (MBA 2005), managing directors at the Lyme Timber Company in Hanover, New Hampshire, work hard to make the double bottom line a reality. Founded in 1976, Lyme Timber Company is a timberland investment management organization... View Details
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
stock of differences as well. Key concepts include: Some indicators of globalization aren't increasing as many experts have claimed. Toyota and Wal-Mart are examples of companies that understand how to deal with distance in a strategic... View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
during 2012? Did they increase gains throughout the year but then very aggressively decrease them before year-end? Did they sell 80 percent or more of their capital gains during the year? They wound up with a pool of 2,281 tax-minded executives who View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- Web
IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog
design, openness to trade, quality, as well as internationalization, and strategic flexibility. Italy’s family capitalism has shown it can evolve and adjust to a changing world. Students will analyze how it has done so even against... View Details
- Profile
Sid Shenai
Faso. Their five-year plan reached the finals of the JPMorgan Good Venture Competition in New York City, helping Paper For All attract publicity and new donors. Forming strategic alliances Today, Sid is cooperating with six MBA candidates... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
contribution is tax-deductible in the contribution year, but both principal and investment earnings are taxed upon withdrawal. Using administrative data from 11 companies that added a Roth contribution option to their existing 401(k) plan... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business School Press) The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail demonstrates why outstanding companies that focus on competitiveness, listen closely to customers, and View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
participation in OS arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (2) OS and P firms may (or may not) coexist in equilibrium. Firms decide their type and investment in R&D and sell packages composed of a primary good... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
impact on their choices about career. And it struck me that these women were among the best and the brightest. They were very ambitious. They had invested a lot in their training at HBS and in their career development. So it probably was... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
Abstract—Many experiments have found that participants take more investment risk if they see returns less frequently, see portfolio-level returns (rather than each individual asset’s returns), or see long-horizon (rather than one-year)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
Abraham Neyman Abstract—Building on the work of Nash, Harsanyi, and Shapley, we define a cooperative solution for strategic games that takes account of both the competitive and the cooperative aspects of such games. We prove existence in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
Les Vadasz noted Intel Capital's interest in investing in companies that added value and were a good strategic fit, that were already successful in their own market, and that presented a financially viable... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
media content. Raises issues of how technology interacts with creative processes and outcome possibilities, and also invites discussion of strategic and organizational questions raised by the very different business models of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
firms are the management arsenals of many public companies — strategic due diligence, blueprints for action, tying compensation to performance — but they are not applied with sufficient consistency, rigor, or thoroughness. In short, what... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55493 Marketplace Scalability and Strategic Use of Platform Investment By: Li, Jin, Gary P. Pisano, and Feng Zhu Abstract— The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman