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- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
The Cost of Leaning-in By: Exley, Christine L., Muriel Niederle, and Lise Vesterlund Abstract— Women's reluctance to negotiate is often used to explain the gender wage gap,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
dean for the Asian Initiative at Harvard Business School. He teaches courses on the international political economy. We asked Vietor about developments in View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
companies to share both risk and reward on specific projects. But how do they define borders in the essentially borderless world of science? Anna Protopapas Part of the trick is to agree to boundaries... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
watching the response." Let them lead while you learn. When you identify new offerings or markets where your assessment of initial risk versus potential returns suggests caution, a competitor may do you... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
participated in several major research initiatives during the 1980s and early 1990s, before becoming Dean of the School in 1995. And even as Dean, he continued to pursue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
realize that, despite an initial hands-off approach, they will eventually have to think about what kinds of policies make sense for a new technology. As the book describes, regulators can either intervene at... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
Part of that effort was the creation of a strategic corporate social responsibility program called Our World, Our Family. The case tracks Western Union's earlier CSR View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
impact stayed. Kash, John, and I worked very hard to capture our findings in a single document. Alan Weber, at the time the Editor of the Harvard Business Review, did a... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- October 2004 (Revised July 2005)
- Case
Kinetic Concepts, Inc.
By: Jay W. Lorsch, Dwight B. Crane and Ashley Robertson
Raises issues about how the nature and function of a board changes as a company moves from ownership by its employees, including the founder, to ownership by a private equity firm, Fremont Partners, culminating in a highly successful IPO. Gives students the opportunity... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Governing and Advisory Boards; Initial Public Offering; Behavior; Organizations; Employee Ownership; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; United States
Lorsch, Jay W., Dwight B. Crane, and Ashley Robertson. "Kinetic Concepts, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 405-042, October 2004. (Revised July 2005.)
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
http://hbr.org/product/Opening-the-Valve--From-S/an/415015-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-016 Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (B) The (B) case provides significant detail on Valve's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
seeking to double her budget for social media and other digital marketing initiatives for 2011. A number of digital efforts implemented in the past two years seem to be bearing fruit, and there is a desire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
longitudinal data from 68 multi-method case studies of organizational change initiatives conducted at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom support these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
The Value Net Government rule makers and referees shape businesses' ability both to initiate and to defend against these strategies—to play offense or defense in value-net games. Specifically, View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
initial thinking, affordability of health care insurance proved to be the major driver of consumer thinking across all four segments and later became the consistent core of... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
documents to get up to speed in a particular area and to find out who has done work on a topic. They then approach those people directly. When we initially looked at how consulting companies manage knowledge, we found that they all used... View Details
- 07 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers
Switch Habits Juul vaping products have become a cigarette alternative for adult smokers and a growing concern among parents of teens. What the company did initially to head off concerns. Cost-cutting Leads... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
to the support of companies, investors, and the initiatives of a number of NGOs, widespread regulatory intervention has yet to materialize. Outside of South Africa, adoption... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- February 2022 (Revised June 2022)
- Case
Resident 2020
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Thomas O. Jones
Launched in 2016, Resident was a leading player in the direct-to-consumer bed-in-a-box mattress market, where it was one of at least 175 venture-backed companies competing in the space. By late 2020, it had realized over $500 million in revenue, profitability in the... View Details
- 04 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
career choices? A: Women's portability comes from two sources: a greater emphasis on external relationships, and conducting better research about a company before joining it. Men would benefit from conducting more due diligence as well.... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
games themselves. Then mix in the strong support of global brands and count the extensive television coverage (over 5,500 hours in this country alone) and record audiences that have tuned in during View Details