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- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
extensive historical study: (1) link responsibility and control, (2) manage moral hazard, (3) pool risk in sound institutions, (4) adopt market conforming approaches to the extent possible, and (5) structure markets to promote safe...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
discusses how the United States can reformulate some of these ideas from China to foster much-needed change at home. Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy by Joan Magretta (MBA 1983) (Harvard...
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- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
the confidence and skill to analyze the viability of innovations in terms of their technological, public policy, and structural impact and to have a sure sense of the mood of consumers who, all over the world, are deeply interested in...
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- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509012 Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail Harvard Business School Case 709-409 The case looks at the two dominant Finnish retailers: S Group and Kesko. S Group is a customer-owned cooperative, which has...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Revital Gabay
organizing activities ranging from informal hikes and dinners to more structured professional events in which colleagues discussed their projects. "We changed the way we related to each other,"...
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- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
introduction of a very general class of unobserved heterogeneity on agents' preferences. Under minimal assumptions, we show existence and uniqueness of equilibrium. We provide two algorithms to compute the equilibria in our model. The first algorithm operates under any...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
ask what can be done to change the structure of the ask in any particular situation. Exley: And if you look at how frequently we’re asked to give—by email, at the grocery store, by postcards, from community...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
first commercial strip development in 1983. Since then we have pursued a strategy that has overcome historical biases and roadblocks to urban reinvestment. How did you contribute to this strategy? I led a comprehensive study that helped establish a vision for View Details
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
and CEO, Michael Lebowitz, now wondered what he needed to do to keep his company competitive in the years to come. Had he found the right way to organize his people and structure the organization following the transition from...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Recruiting During Uncertainty: How to Meet Students Where They Are
While there may be changes along the way, the more information students have about the process the more confident they will feel about engaging with your company. Create space for students to share their career goals honestly Transparency...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
its country. The group has influenced customers and suppliers to change their practices, whether by helping a fish harvesting operation in the coastal swamps minimize pollution or encouraging a motorcycle courier company to reduce...
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- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
in Developing Countries Authors: Diego Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha, and Luis Serven Abstract We build a two-country asymmetric DSGE model with two features: (1) a product cycle structure determines the range of intermediate goods...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
leadership and changed the basic structure of Wall Street, as outlined in this excerpt from the chapter “Revolution in Investment Banking.” During their time together working on the Ford offering [in 1956,...
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Garry Emmons
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
handful of overarching ideas about breakthrough negotiation. The seven principles that follow represent an overview of how breakthrough negotiators operate. Principle 1: Breakthrough Negotiators Shape The Structure Of Their Situations...
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by Michael Watkins
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
"is the extreme form of change that management teams within companies have to go through. The degree to which that change is hard is tied to how well you are doing when you attempt to do something like...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
and a global business unit head, and has recently returned to a straight-ahead global business unit reporting structure. "There are never-ending tradeoffs between creating global efficiencies through a more centralized structure and...
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by Julia Hanna
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
to see a complex technical system in an abstract way and change the system's structure by rearranging its components. In this paper, I argue that the essence of dynamic architectural capabilities lies in the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
sentence. It makes rereads enjoyable; there’s always more to explore and contemplate. The book that helped me read something like Simulacra and Simulation is How to Read a Book. It made me realize that reading is an intensely informative debate with the author, and...
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- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
of these firms face various issues—including management of exchange rate risk, how to structure their internal capital markets, how to do capital budgeting worldwide, and how to respond to varying regulatory and tax incentives. The book...
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- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
the commitment and loyalty of employees who perceive themselves as the most disposable of corporate assets ." What will it take to turn around negative trends in "identity"? Ajay Kumar Gupta suggests that "creation of View Details
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by Jim Heskett