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- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
engagement. This case describes the concept and described its implementation and early challenges. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308010 Studio Moderna—A Venture in Eastern Europe... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706504 Improving Performance: Boat Building Exercise Harvard Business School Exercise 606-147 Provides a framework for team problem solving and process improvement following View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
leader's willingness to make sure (through design and training) that each individual's positional assignments fit their conception of self and their aspirations. The leader's willingness to commit her own time and organizational resources... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
analysis that went into building the strategy. Students will gain exposure to concepts around firm strategy, portfolio construction, risk management, marketing, and impact investing. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
toy manufacturer), they both embraced the concepts and tools of Enterprise Risk Management. Over a number of years, at both firms, risk management transformed from a collection of "off-the-shelf" acquired tools and practices... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated. Drawing on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs, we develop a set of hypotheses about differences in the expected depth of internalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Invention Factory, an advanced concept lab, would develop new breakthrough products and reinvigorate the company's culture of innovation. Since the 1960s, Timberland had relied on innovation, developing the world's first waterproof boot... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
"Rediscovering the End Consumer, Over and Over Again" we show how most "new" business concepts are simply self-referring. They do not move beyond the rules of a certain way of doing capitalism, and therefore they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
to make predictions and teaches the core metrics to evaluate how accurate predictions are. It helps students understand how to choose among alternative model specifications and introduces the concepts of overfitting and in-sample versus... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971, The Concept of Corporate Strategy, Irwin: Homewood), attempts to formalize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
developing the concept of organizations for competitiveness in a subnational region and the elements of constructing an economic strategy. The case also outlines the adopted cluster vision of development for the state and the various task... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
struck by a dignified silver-haired gentleman who took the stage to receive the award for social innovation. He then proceeded to eloquently describe the development of a business concept centered on the rural poor of India, which was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
and marginal-cost options. The emphasis on short-term earnings per share as the primary driver of share price, and hence shareholder value creation, acts to restrict investments in innovative long-term growth opportunities. These are not bad tools and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
definition that extends the concept beyond the traditional binary retain/not retain view of retention. We discuss a variety of metrics to measure and monitor retention. We present an integrated framework for managing retention that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007
Champion International, by contrast, resulted in culture change and some improvements in performance, but negligible enhancement of shareholder value. In the end, Professor Beer notes, neither concept on its own will deliver sustainable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/313016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 614-004 Exploration vs. Exploitation This module note introduces James March's concept of exploration and exploitation, and the management challenge of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
recourse to funds-of-funds. We use asset allocation concepts to estimate characteristics of the funds-of-funds benchmark distribution. Since the benchmark characteristics are reasonable, we conclude that funds-of-funds, on average,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
how to approach the moral dimension of these decisions, or even how to talk with my colleagues about them. If there was such a concept as moral leadership, I certainly didn't know what it consisted of. When I returned to HBS in 1998, I... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Third Edition of Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization continues to provide a refreshingly accessible economic analysis perspective. The distinguished team of authors introduces and explains economic concepts in a way... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
allocations for general, substitutable, and strongly substitutable preferences. Apart from obtaining "set inclusion results" on all three domains, we introduce weak setwise stability as a new stability concept and prove that for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace