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- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
novelty but are meaningfully reduced by the publication of objective regulatory guidelines. Finally, I consider how the regulatory process affects small firms' market entry strategies and find that small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
graduate from HBS in Spring 2009. He must decide whether to join his father's company, Toronto-based AME Learning, as president working alongside his father who will be CEO. AME has been in business for 12 years, mostly as a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
the three largest commercial airlines in the world. The case emphasizes how Emirates capitalized on its location-a small city-state strategically located to reach ¾ of the world's population in a flight of less than eight hours-to build a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
"as part of a small team building a new company ... the time we spend together (as opposed to the day per week that she and her colleagues telecommute) ... is the most valuable." Jack Downey makes the case for the doubters:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
and practitioners alike. "Tightening the thumbscrews on the current business model through cost-cutting and consolidation has been the wrong answer to a serious predicament," says Christensen. "Large, integrated... View Details
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
stuck—because the solution can't be mandated solely by an organization," says McGinn, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration at HBS. "There is an interaction," she continues.... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
Inkpen Abstract—The globalization of state-owned multinational companies (SOMNCs) has become an important phenomenon in international business (IB), yet it has received scant attention in the literature. We explain how the analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
a single quarter last year, invested $3.8 billion in Internet start-ups. But, is the get-big-fast strategy right for everyone? To what extent is its payoff dependent on speculative excess in the capital markets? These probing questions captured the interest of Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
If Mad Men advertising hotshot Don Draper was operating on Madison Avenue today, he would find competition coming from more than just other ad firms. A recent study by Harvard Business School professor emeritus Alvin J. Silk and... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
Lerner and Scott Stern, 483-502. University of Chicago Press, 2012 Abstract Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
actually the moment that got me to reflect on how the world was changing, [including] the world sitting in front of me in classrooms,” said Margolis, the James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
Harvard MBA students visit the Bo-Kaap area of Cape Town, May 1, 2017 (Photo credit: Caroline Elkins) Recently, a first-year MBA student at Harvard Business School was overheard gushing to a friend about a professor’s deep knowledge of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
Beer, the School's Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and an expert on organizational behavior. "Quite simply, without a sense of purpose, we become alienated from our work and find it... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
When Harvard Business School dean Kim B. Clark returned from a road tour a couple of years ago, he had some important issues he wanted to discuss with Professor Myra M. Hart. Evidence—granted, most of it anecdotal—was mounting to show... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
directors accountable to company owners." Major business groups lost no time denouncing the reform measures as vehicles for ceding enormous power to a small number of special-interest investors, namely,... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
Conference, held February 7 at Harvard Business School. Panelists represented private equity groups that handle funds from $1.5 billion to 5.1 billion euros. Like its amazing variety of wines, languages, and driving habits, the European... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
video we really want to see. But assuming a captive audience on these video sites may not make online marketers more effective at reaching consumers. Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Thales S. Teixeira notes that it's just as... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
continuum according to the situation." Do you agree? Does unleashing the "wisdom of crowds" work well in situations where rapid-fire decision-making is called for? Or is it a luxury available only when the pace of the organization's View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Cuts Harvard Business School Case 709-037 As his inauguration approached, President-elect Obama faced a financial sector meltdown, a costly bailout, and massive government deficits. With the economy in recession, interest rates near zero,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
differentiation: de-emphasizing the strategic orientation their main rival is emphasizing. Finally, we show that the greater the competitive intensity, the greater the contribution strategic orientation differentiation has on business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne