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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
savvy and organizational skills to the man Wall Street loved to hate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as detailed in this excerpt from the chapter “The Long Road Back.” Having tasted politics in 1932 by working for Franklin D. Roosevelt... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
released in January that detailed those gains was prefaced by the authors' blunt assessment: "The research shows that to date, high-performing charter schools are in the minority." So what will it take to make that minority a majority?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
light, color, texture, and sound. In February, Louis Vuitton took that premise to a new level, opening a fourstory, 22,000-square-foot boutique on Fifth Avenue designed by architect Peter Marino that features details such as flashing LED... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
2017 Washington, DC: American Public Health Association Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management By: Howitt, Arnold M., Dutch Leonard, and David W. Giles, eds. Abstract—This book provides detailed accounts of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
billion. The company had 41,000 employees in 11 countries, but it was ill-prepared for the increasingly competitive market. With the shift from hardware to software and services, HCL had slipped behind its Indian competitors and multinational companies. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
Decoded A detailed breakdown of a report from the R.G. Dun & Co. Collection Should you sell lace on credit, for example, to Henrietta Bruckman & Co., a milliner at 403 6th Avenue in New York City? Here’s the scoop: “The extent of her... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
people interviewed for my book, The Intelligent Entrepreneur, primarily included HBS alumni entrepreneurs, HBS professors, cofounders, and key employees. I talked with alumni who had enjoyed great success and with many who hadn’t. In the end, I focused in greatest... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
use the Internet to provide more detailed information of interest to specific stakeholders. Through Web 2.0 tools and technologies, a company can engage with all stakeholders in a meaningful dialogue that includes listening as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
and urban construction in China tend to focus on “ghost towns” on the one hand or urbanization as China’s silver bullet to growth and reform on the other. In this paper, we detail what China calls its “New Urbanization Policy.” While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
framework for understanding the links between manufacturing and innovation that will enable them to make better outsourcing decisions. They also detail how government must change its support of basic and applied scientific research and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
unite partners' objectives for creating a flexible supply chain; benchmark performance against other retailers; and evaluate and manage new technologies. Raman and Fisher provide specific, detailed metrics and techniques that can be used... View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008
provides details on both headquarter and country head perspective on BMW's channel strategy. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509023 Chi Mei Optoelectronics Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
the bottom, growing up in Elsies River - an Afrikaans-speaking, Colored area outside of Cape Town. This paper begins with a description of the economic conditions in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, then details the BEE... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
LEVITT The details differ slightly, but the story, in its telling, is always the same. Ninety or so MBA students sit nervously awaiting the start of their first Marketing class. At the appointed time — not a minute more or less — a slight... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
back in vogue in Washington D.C. House Republicans will start to fill in the details on a tax proposal ultimately expected to reach a thousand pages. The goal is to get the bill signed into law by President Donald Trump by the end of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
convertible note, with attention paid to technical details regarding valuation caps. Purchase this note:http://hbr.org/search/813017-PDF-ENG The Fall of Circuit City Stores, Inc. John R. Wells and Galen DanskinHarvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
items in your category—think drywall for example." For retailers looking for immediate advice, the book details three courses of action to help them. As the threats are not identical across all retail segments, step one is to assess their... View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010
contractual detail affects the type of dispute resolution approach that is adopted when conflict arises, and that different approaches are associated with different costs for resolving the dispute. We also find that the effect of contract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
be ahead than behind. It's pretty primitive, I think. That's part of my nature. Dan: I want to talk about a couple foundational moments at Blackstone that you detail in the book. Right around 1989, when you invested in Edgcomb. Can you... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
when the (petty) amount given is more generous (e.g., a gift card for $5.15 rather than $5), suggesting that pettiness may in some instances serve as a stronger relationship signal than actual benefits exchanged. Attentiveness to trivial View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne