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- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
render their brick-and-mortar formats unable to earn their cost of capital. A few retailers face the challenge of successfully capturing the opportunities ecommerce presents to increase the productivity of their existing brick-and-mortar...
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- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
capabilities in maintaining and upgrading product portfolios through acquisition and divestiture. Acquisitions were financed almost wholly out of retained earnings and income received from divestitures. The resulting overall financial record was impressive. In 1991 its...
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- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
will eventually find themselves spending more and more energy fighting for a dwindling supply of resources—and the market will win anyway. Norton and Westinghouse, for example, two companies that lived by the sword—with managers who were compelled to act in their own...
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by Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
the arguments on both sides and render a decision. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708032 Fiyta—The Case of a Chinese Watch Company Harvard Business School Case 308-025 Fiyta had long...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
Chinese Communist Party line. This tends to render the Chinese as the unpredictable aggressor and the Soviets as playing a reactive game. This article argues instead that the timing and nature of the Chinese challenge reflect the reactive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
assumptions that countries can accumulate reserves and borrow internationally using their own currency. As opposed to traditional sovereign-debt models, asset-valuation effects occasioned by currency fluctuations act to absorb global shocks and View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
managerial paradox: executives must both preserve and change aspects of the business that once made them successful but could render the organization obsolete in the near future. This module will examine several mature businesses that...
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- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
attitudes towards two critical phases of conflict termination—a ceasefire and a peace agreement. We test the malleability of refugees' attitudes to see if subtle changes in how these processes are framed or who endorses them can render a...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
Seattle, Isaiah Kacyvenski (MBA 2011), all 250 pounds of him, was motoring full speed downfield on kick-off coverage, intent on destroying the St. Louis Rams returner. That's when a huge blindside block leveled him, probably rendering him...
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- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
costs. Silicon and wafer cutting technologies that were rendered surplus after the semiconductor industry slowed down during the last recession were picked up by a fast-growing solar energy industry.Q: What advice would you give would-be...
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
sovereign-debt models, asset-valuation effects occasioned by currency fluctuations act to absorb global shocks and render consumption smoother. Countries do not accumulate reserves to be depleted in “bad” times. Instead, issuing domestic...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
results. They advocate using alternative methods for estimating risk-adjusted returns and excluding some observations from our sample. Amihud and Stoyanov claim that making such changes renders our results not significant (though...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
to suggest that the discretionary nature of the peremptory challenge renders it precisely the type of judgment most likely to be biased by race. The need for additional psychological investigation of race and jury selection is emphasized,...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
vulnerable to natural disasters, such as flood plains. This would represent a form of moral hazard. Some critics argue, moreover, that unemployment insurance has rendered workers less careful about keeping their jobs, that deposit...
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by Laura Linard
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
targeting behavior. For managers contemplating the use of performance goals or targets to encourage more volunteer effort, our results suggest careful consideration about the extent to which they may render other incentives less...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
identity, ancestry, and American history in his works. In Strive , Lovell used an image from his personal archive of family, vintage, and historical photographs as the source for his expressive drawing of a seated woman, which is rendered...
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- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
render the most complete contemporary picture of MBA education. "The level of cross-school cooperation was unprecedented," Datar said afterward. For Datar and Garvin, the two-day session was a "thank-you" to the...
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- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
directions. Fads can be mistaken for trends; the flavor du jour can masquerade as a time-tested recipe. An ephemeral stock price can be made to seem a permanent achievement, an unwavering final verdict. The temporary opinion rendered by...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
theory, happen to also tell her how unlikely her theory is. We investigate which combinations of errors, situations, and preferences tend to induce such incidental learning vs. factors that render erroneous beliefs stable. We show, for...
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Dina Gerdeman