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- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
numbered. What the industry must embrace in its place is a business model based on a larger portfolio of targeted—and therefore more effective and profitable—treatments, not a limited palette of one-size-fits-all drugs. The current... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
extremely broadly (even, in some cases, onto generations that have yet to be born) and to overcome a broad range of failures in the private marketplace. This is why, in my view, government truly is the ultimate risk manager. Even with a new administration in View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract— Regulators have long been aware that differential access to information can undermine the efficiency and fairness of financial markets. In an effort to place investors on equal footing, the Securities and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
cost of moving to the suburbs. I find that black in-migration imposed a strong, negative fiscal externality on receiving places by lowering property values and, mechanically, reducing tax revenues. Unable or unwilling to raise tax rates,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
case in each chapter illustrates key concepts and helps students place the material in the context of real-world practice. And deep integration with MyAccountingLab provides students numerous opportunities to review and hone their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
winning streaks, the number of leaders multiplies along with the momentum of the streak. Winning teams and successful organizations become increasingly less dependent on the person called the commander-in-chief—even though, ironically, the same top managers are more... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
KaBOOM!’s total annual number of playgrounds built by as much as a factor of 10. The case explores how KaBOOM! evaluated its goals and determined a strategy to achieve the scale required to meet its social mission and vision of every child having a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim, and Beiting ChengHarvard Business School Supplement 112-058 The case describes the challenges that Foxconn faced after a series of suicides took place at its plants. The response of Foxconn's management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/318019 Harvard Business School Case 718-027 Kickstarting Tomato Jos in Nigeria In the spring of 2016, Mira Mehta (HBS 2014), faced a difficult decision. Following a successful Kickstarter campaign and winning the second View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
competitions on cross-selling, and tracking of cross-selling leads, he was not sure that these were enough. Were there other ways in which TCI could successfully cross-sell? Could they put in place a system that specifically incentivized... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
her small-cap growth fund. With only a few days left to place an order for the offering, she had to decide whether to invest and, if so, how much to invest. To make her investment decision, Rosen had to understand the value implications... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
banking system. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-101.pdf Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency Authors:Alvin J. Silk Abstract What restrictions should be View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
of their corporate governance, placing them within the wider context of the economic and social history of Germany. Based on both quantitative data and archivally based case studies, this book explores how the relationship between the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. Vice President AI Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who must decide whether to recommend... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
captured during its daily interactions with shareholders and market analysts. As a first step, he put a formalized process in place to collect and present it in a more systematic way. The team, for example, keeps a record of investor... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
outline how to put such capabilities in place long before a crisis strikes. First, companies need to hone their teamwork and rapid problem-solving skills through practice. Second, they must learn to recognize weak signals, amplify the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
insurance crisis of 2002-2003. The study tracks the promotion and use of a set of accounting and risk controls put in place to control the troubled insurance division and discusses how and why particular management control systems shift... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
Pincus Ventures. The buyout would rid the division of a "bad" parent and place the division's destiny in its own hands. A recently instituted restructuring plan seemed likely to improve profitability, but the turnaround was in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman