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- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
whether you are doing the right thing. Your decisions are your legacy.” One of Fisher’s favorite analogies is that being in business is like rowing crew. “When the team pulls together, and everybody is at their best, there’s nothing like... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
enlisting companies to adopt a role considered the province of government. However, to use the analogy above, what if there are no washing machines to clean clothes? If the ideal institutions for redressing societal ills do not exist or... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
and a Pro Bowl player. And that's the analogy I garner with her. She broke her maiden after, I think, six or seven starts. All of a sudden everything changed. She was a different filly. She was eating better. She had a lot more... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
a player's pay-off from agreement is risky. We find that a risk-averse player typically increases his equilibrium receipts when his pay-off is made risky. This is because the presence of risk makes individuals behave "more patiently" in bargaining. Strong... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Faculty & Advisors | MBA
companies. His former public company directorships include Analog Devices, Fleetcor Technologies and optionsXpress Holdings. In addition, he is Chairman of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust. Jennifer Fonstad MBA ‘97, Harvard... View Details
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
community, that have risen to the top and realized their role goes well beyond making the numbers to satisfy their shareholders, but they have to do something to really make a difference in the world, through the power that's vested in them with their companies. So... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
don't.' Over the past twenty years, I have run into that analogous question in hundreds of companies. Should you trade down your product line to broaden the market you serve? These are issues that do not go away, and I think that's what... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
School of Business, “Sealed Air is the perfect case for opening a class with the question, ‘What are you going to do?’ There’s really no wiggle room. After some analytics, you have to choose between ‘Yes, introduce uncoated’ or ‘No, don’t.’ Over the past twenty years,... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
threats on a finite set of players, N, is a function d that assigns a real number to any coalition, S ? N, such that d(S) = -d(N\S). A game of threats is not necessarily a coalitional game as it may fail to satisfy the condition d(Ø) = 0. We show that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
world will have recognized the urgency of the climate change problem. I think the best analogy for the state of the industry, once that realization has set in, is aerospace in the 1960s and the moon shot, where there’s a real problem and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
latecomers, as we build a technological infrastructure, it will be the newest and most advanced," Sicupira explains. "That has happened in Brazil with our digital cable installation, which surpasses the analog cable that is the core of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
solicit input on the ground, refine, and finally present their completed proposal to their partner organization. Moon draws on a medical school analogy to describe the immersion experience. “For decades medical schools have understood the... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
vindication or validation because I never really thought of it as something that I either needed approval for or that I was being judged for. It almost goes back to the analogy earlier of meditation. If you're an early meditator 15 years... View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
both? Might an over-emphasis on long-term restructuring increase the chances that major banks could collapse? And what were the best economic and political strategies in these arenas? As a major developed economy, Japan offers an analog... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
discussions about the pitfalls that might cause that high rate of failure? The ways in which we resist architecting prenuptial agreements or other ways that could be where we see a lot of analogs from founding teams, the founding teams... View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
with the target? 5. Ask analogous questions about the player(s) at this next-to-final stage: Whom would you ideally like to have onboard to maximize the chances of the most difficult player at this stage saying "yes"? How can... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
than eliminate or relax it. The analogy to the keiretsu system has been widely touted in the Internet era. Companies such as CMGI billed themselves as new economy keiretsu. We are seeing a similar outcome as in Japan. The model turned out... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
tremendous analogies here to corporate innovation. Q: The case describes tension between a driving creative passion and the lure of easy work. How did Paul Robertson and the group manage that conflict? A: The ensemble's dream was to... View Details
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
to disaggregate their markets and seek out the differences and opportunities often hidden in current pieces of business. Q: Pricing opportunities occur at what you call the "piece of business" level of competition. What does this mean? Can you give an... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Gavetti and Jan W. Rivkin Periodical:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008) Abstract Deliberate, emergent, and analogical approaches to finding the best strategy all have their advantages, depending on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace