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  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

businesses. The strategy literature uses real option theory to explain the transition to scale, but does not consider the complex relationships between corporate ventures and their parent organizations. By comparing six longitudinal cases... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 5

The investor, Sequoia Fund, opposes the re-election citing Jim Johnson's prior track record as the CEO of Fannie Mae, which has been criticized for its role in the financial crisis and for serving on the compensation committees of two companies that experienced View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

constituency groups. These are the same issues FASB has long faced in the U.S. (for example, stock option accounting), and I think we will see that the IASB will find itself dealing with more and more of these items. View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

A Piece of the Action

which HBS faculty are already studying. While one faculty member, for example, might look at the role that stock options played in a company that failed after it went public, another might investigate how a medical device company marketed... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

midst of a famine that had claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and piracy had recently become the country’s greatest claim to fame, securing ransoms to the tune of millions of U.S. dollars in one of the poorest corners of the global economy. Why had piracy become... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

demonstrating systematic differences between the preferences people anticipate they will have over a series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

Finance in Commercial Real Estate John D. Macomber and Frederik NellemannHarvard Business School Case 212-067 A commercial landlord analyzes options for funding and accomplishing energy efficiency retrofit. The situation is complicated by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609018 eHarmony Harvard Business School Case 709-424 eHarmony's CEO needs to decide how to react to imitations of its business model, encroachment by competing models, and ascendance of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

applicants—many companies, including Twitter and Google, plan to permanently incorporate remote days or give employees the option to work from home on a full-time basis. But virtual work has it challenges. Employees feel lost, isolated,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 12 Dec 2018
  • News

Lesson Plan

Oregon, when she was six years old, and her parents’ anxious search for a home in the best possible school district, which led to a full-tuition scholarship at the University of Oregon. Noting that the option to choose one’s neighborhood... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen
  • 17 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

they're pretty convinced that some form of advertising is going to build up because of the traffic that's inherently there. Since we don't know how to capture the value yet, people are prepositioning to capture it. Q: With all these advertising View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing
  • 09 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

R&D organizations, a clear relationship emerges: more long-term incentives (e.g., stock options and restricted stock) are associated with more heavily cited patents. These incentives also appear to be associated with more patent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

benefits, like flexible work options or the ability to choose assignments, led to much stronger job satisfaction than straightforward cash rewards. “If you allow an employee to work at home, you help employees feel like you trust them to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • Web

Commencement 2011 Address | About

instill while you were here at HBS. Always be prepared. Think deeply about problems. Analyze them from multiple perspectives. Solicit the opinions of others and debate options rigorously. Make a considered and thoughtful decision, however... View Details
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

products? (2) What are the differences between marketing to businesses vs. marketing to consumers? Since one of the options the firm is considering involves a consumer product—online game development—the case supports a discussion about... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107055 Bancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (B) Harvard Business School Case 107-066 Excellence in exploiting customer information and leveraging its affiliation to the GM group are among the strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

strategic decisions on whether to go deeper (expand to grades 4 and 5) or go broader to more grade 1 to 3 children. They were wrestling with the question of which option would lead to more impact and leave their social innovation in a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

profit than a constant emissions price under an emissions tax, which contradicts popular arguments that the greater uncertainty under cap-and-trade will erode value. We further show that two operational drivers underlie this result: i) the firm's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 13

case considers Anglo American's options to stay in front of these trends. How can the protagonist promote greater professionalization of social performance inside the organization and greater integration with business decisions? The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

recent firm performance? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/say-on-pay-qualcomm-inc-shareholders-vote-maybe-in-2012/an/114005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 213-047 Aqua Bounty Valuation of a pre-revenue biotech company at IPO using probability trees and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne