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- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
equity and sometimes contain anti-dilution provisions, warrants, and board seats. Contracts rights vary explicitly with the size of the equity stake. Contracts contain explicit provisions linking equity participation to subsequent IPOs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
Conant, he taught in a leadership course that he had designed for the company's high-potential managers. In all cases, higher-ambition leaders identified future leaders and developed them—usually through cross-functional and cross-geographic career paths. Q: How does... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
by offering both differentiation and low cost, that in fact the two strategies might feed on each other under the right circumstances to produce superior results for customers, employees, and investors. Two of the firms he studied were... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
links you are always going to be fighting the last war.” As with many facets of business, establishing those links comes down to hiring the right people. Across industries, the average annual turnover in sales is 25–30 percent. “This... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
right strategy to grow the club. He wondered if the “moneyball” approach—when a smaller team competed with wealthier teams by using statistical analysis to buy undervalued assets and sell overvalued assets—could work in football and if... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
of dogs and interested families, Exley and Battles have begun designing an accessible, up-to-date list of families looking for dogs. And there are plans to update the site. (At the risk of making a bad dog pun, the site is pretty bare bones View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
than a meter. "The students wanted to get out right away," recalls Mukunda, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. "But I said, no! (Luckily I have a loud voice.) And I told... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
April 2002, started providing its branch managers with customer lifetime value (CLV) information about mortgage applicants. The data allow us to gauge the effects of enriching the information set of these employees in an environment where incentives and the allocation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
critical to success today and in the years to come. They must consider cost cutting as one step on the journey to future success. In a sense, every business, large or small, needs to think of itself as a "new venture" right now.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=206078 Southern States Communications 806-170 Managers receiving letters claiming that their products or services violate the intellectual property View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Reinhardt. But he was not convinced. "Maybe [Browne] thought customers would reward BP at the gas pump for being environmentalists ... I don't know how you buy gasoline, but I buy gasoline at the station that's on the right side of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
That means that a first-class human-resources executive must be at the CEO's right hand. Eventually, traditional strategic-planning processes will need to be overhauled and the financially calibrated measurement and reward systems will... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
there are things that are important to patients. And right now in health care, we don't measure either of them very well." The bundled payment pilot uses a series of outcomes that align with the Value-based Health Care model's three... View Details
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
the same core technology, every sector had its unique features. In the fall of 2007, executives from Monster opened up a dialogue with Michel about selling the company or expanding their relationship. Michel wondered if the time was right... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
remain about Marquee's staying power, rising costs, and increased competition. When is the right time for Tepperberg to pull the plug on Marquee? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509019 Merck:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
except at the innovation frontier where we do see foreign companies setting up. So even as many in South Africa would see the acquisition of a successful company as potentially not the right kind of direct investment, the fact that it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
Right now, my colleagues and I are trying to find ways to (1) describe different design architectures; and (2) predict the "richness" of the design spaces created by an architecture. Really rich design spaces don't get... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
conversation in America around small business. Indeed, President Trump’s business background, if applied in the right way, could help him understand the needs of American small business. There are certainly thousands of small businesses... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
itself searching for the right growth strategy moving forward. U.S. same-store sales had declined for eight consecutive quarters, and Wal-Mart was increasingly becoming dependent on international sales. Meanwhile, intense competition came... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne