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02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

aren’t that clear.” Despite the pain of Quincy’s failure, Wallace doesn’t regret the experience. “I’m more fulfilled when I’m scrappy and building something, so I’m grateful to have been ripped away from the notion that I need financial... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

21 Apr 2015
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while between-firm selection and market reallocation raise the left truncation of the distributions and shift revenue leftward. Using a rich cross-country firm-level panel dataset, we find significant evidence of both mechanisms, but between-firm selection and market... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2015
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financial and nonfinancial measures, some envisioned its role only in formulaic compensation contracts. We describe an alternative view, in which the scorecard's formal measures are created and used for informal management, with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

effectiveness of these roles in actual organizational settings. The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid? Authors:Aldo Musacchio and Francisco Flores-Macias Publication:Online Edition. Harvard International Review (March 2009) Abstract The global... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do

early pioneer of this proactive approach, also undertaken by Kathy Giusti’s MBA 1985 Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and John Crowley’s MBA 1997 Amicus Therapeutics.) The MJFF demands accountability and results, brings together... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Health, Social Assistance; Accommodation; Hospitality; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

May 2022
Supplement

Maestro Pizza (C): Taking the Fight Outside

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais

Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details

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01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

(in that order), so my first jobs were below the MBA level: market research at Carnation, then media at BBDO. When we moved to New York City, I was offered a position as an account executive at BBDO, but I heard that the previous woman in... View Details

25 Apr 2017
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providers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50817 December 2016 Harvard Law Review Deal Process Design in Management Buyouts By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—Management buyouts (MBOs) are an economically and legally significant class of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

25-year business career that included 10 years in fashion retailing; 12 years in mutual fund and brokerage financial services; serving as a director on nonprofit and corporate boards; and chairing the Better Business Bureau here in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

29 Apr 2014
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Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

support is the "meta-product" under which all aspects of commerce are subsumed. Deep support means "getting my life back." In order to provide this, deep support means that commercial entities absorb both View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Dec 2018
News

Bridging the Gap

authentic interests might be. Flint: It sounds like there’s a return on investment here for the college education that could be taken into account in this decision. Falik: I think that the most compelling reason that every young person... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

August 2023 (Revised March 2024)
Case

Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal

The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details

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14 Jan 2014
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employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions are driven by firms themselves (e.g., the H-1B... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

quarter. Overall, the unit now accounts for 38 percent of the company’s business, according to its financial statements, with IBM spending more than $5 billion in acquisitions in the first half of 2016 to... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

enables downloads to be faster. While this "direct effect" seems obvious, our analysis also takes into account the following "indirect effect": The behavior of peers may vary when infrastructure improves. As... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

01 Sep 2008
News

Building a Better MBA

interview. Among their findings: In the 1960s and 1970s, MBAs graduated with valuable, current business and management knowledge. If companies wanted new hires with cutting-edge insights, they’d hire an MBA. According to several deans, that’s no longer true. View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

College, and the ‘Bert King Award for Service’ from the African American Student Union at HBS. Ebony Magazine named him one of the top 150 influential people in America. He has often been quoted in many publications, including Black Enterprise, Crain’s Business... View Details

05 Mar 2020
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Green Light

maps. After their initial investment in April of 2013, Lo describes the business as “failing to launch.” There was a leadership deficit and a business model that hadn’t accounted for returning investor capital—which included a significant... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

distribution of firms as well as by institutions in labor and financial markets. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711022-PDF-ENG The Case Method of Instruction John DeightonHarvard Business School Course Overview... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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The ‘F’ Word

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This Is What I Do

Maestro Pizza (C): Taking the Fight Outside

From Where We Stand

First Look at New Research, April 25

Teaching The Moral Leader

First Look: April 29

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

Bridging the Gap

Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)

First Look: January 14

Big Blue’s Big Bet

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

Building a Better MBA

2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Green Light

First Look: September 27