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- 24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24
(C):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411008-PDF-ENG Fidelity Retires in Canada Robert C. Pozen and Edward ScottHarvard Business School Case 311-023 The head of Fidelity Canada was faced with a decision... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
which analysis of the numbers, facts, and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test not only managers’ skills but also their humanity. This book presents a five-question framework—based on the long humanist tradition of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
allocation such as heuristics, decision rules, and "bottom up" approaches still effective in today's complex marketing environment? To help practicioners answer this question, Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
Authors:David Goldreich and Hanna Halaburda Abstract The economic literature on choice focuses on individuals' decisions when faced with a given menu. However, the menu itself... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
it or use influence with government to create obstacles, whether other entrepreneurs were on the brink of introducing something similar or better, and whether they would even have enough cash to operate beyond a few months. Under View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
the same music download as Apple's iTunes, and at no charge, why have millions of users chosen to pay a fee using Apple's service rather than download for free from p2p networks? A: The choice between p2p... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
financial and society demands intensify." Rather than ignoring them or pretending that they do not exist, managers need to directly confront these trade-offs and be clear on the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
and probabilistic delayed observation of agents' types. I derive conditions in which an advertising principal can set its payment delay to deter rogue agents and to attract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
relatively little about the effect of conflicting labor market institutions on multinational firms' strategic choice and operating performance. With its decision to invest in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19
PublicationsSetting Health Priorities: Strategy versus Tactics Authors:Chu, Michael, David E. Bloom, and Elizabeth Cafiero Publication:Impact: The Magazine of PSI Abstract Health decision makers throughout... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
September 2016 Harvard Business Review How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—The toughest calls managers have to make come in situations when they have worked hard to gather the facts View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
organizational coherence in support of the strategy Developing and managing human capital Allocating resources in alignment with the strategy Using performance data for decision making View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
approaches to decision making and management. Finally, we argue that the rise of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago from the 1960s onwards (and its closely related cousin at the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- November 2012
- Teaching Note
On Weldon's Watch: Recalls at Johnson & Johnson from 2009 to 2010 (TN)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Clayton S. Rose
Teaching Note for On Weldon's Watch: Recalls at Johnson & Johnson from 2009 to 2010 HBS case 311-029. View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
stringent economic environment and the widely publicized negative impacts of many e-commerce initiatives has caused many senior managers to question the payoffs of e-commerce investments. As companies assess the View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
iPad vs. Amazon's Kindle By: Adner, Ron, Jianqing Chen, and Feng Zhu Abstract— We study the compatibility decisions of two competing platforms that generate profits through both hardware sales View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015
professionals can make and investments that only the firm can make, while at the same time minimizing distortions in decisions that either party could make (e.g., promotion and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
need? What is the optimal setting and context in which they should be delivering care? What processes should they use? There are all sorts of operating managerial and strategic View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
in hospitals. One condition of funding was that she also create a tool to improve the safety climate and encourage senior managers to become more engaged in hospital safety initiatives. “It was not that... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry