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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Peak Earth?
quarterly letter to investors that has become a must-read not only for the financial community but also for anyone concerned about climate change, resource depletion, and the environment. Grantham, whose firm View Details
- Profile
Adam Kanner
percent to 50 percent of tickets to live events go unsold. Reasons for this excess capacity vary, from a hefty rise in ticket prices for concerts and sporting events over the past decade, to a wave of... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
the one hand, more measures provide more dials to turn to get the manager to take actions consistent with the firm's best interests. On the other hand, more public information imposes more risk on the View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
published by the Academy of Management (August, 2005) as part of its Best Paper Proceedings. Her research on how young firms grow is based on data looking at new advertising agencies in New York and Chicago... View Details
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
can actually use." Paul Hamilton-Smith opined that software companies "mostly subsist from their renewal revenue stream. That stream is generated by 'new and improved' software versions."... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
Tintaya copper mine has long been a source of intense conflict between local community members and mine operators. The mine, which was owned and managed first by the Peruvian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
leadership and management is to prioritize among competing accountability demands. This involves deciding both to whom and for what they owe accountability. This paper provides... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 18, 2008
the position of Brand Development Manager (BDM) to build the company's presence, sales, and relationships with its retail customers. After one year, the CEO, CFO and President... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
and function in order to avoid the danger of your product becoming a flash-in-the-pan fad? In the “Clocky” case, Nanda cites the Roomba, iRobot’s robotic vacuum cleaner, as an example of a product that View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008
potential: (1) project complexity, (2) cross-functionality, (3) temporary membership, (4) fluid team boundaries and (5) embeddedness in organizational structures. We argue that effective management of these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
bankers’ preferred conditions exist there. Revenues are sketchy, exchange rate risk is real, political uncertainties abound, and expertise is thin. Yet projects get funded and... View Details
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
like product attributes, pricing, and distribution. My vision of the future changed to product management in the wider consumer goods industry. I was attracted to product View Details
- Profile
Lara Hodgson
offering, NOWaccount, is a fast-growing revenue accelerator system that provides small businesses immediate access to the capital that is inevitably tied up in outstanding receivables – currently small businesses in the U.S. hold more... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
PublicationsEstimating Demand Uncertainty Using Judgmental Forecasts Authors:Vishal Gaur, Saravanan Kesavan, Ananth Raman, and Marshall L. Fisher Periodical:Manufacturing and Service Operations View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
The War for Talent, by Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod, presents a strategic view of what managers must do to hire and keep the best employees. Drawing on... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
one of the three most important issues facing managers and directors in 2006. He commented that, "Activist shareholders, led by hedge funds which today have aggregate assets of more than one trillion... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
prices are significantly lower than its competitors. Assuming the company’s prices are 8 percent lower — at the low end of the estimates from various studies summarized in a recent report by Global Insight —... View Details
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
When the case opens, a fictitious developer, Rance Hollen, is at a critical juncture: Weighing the cost of capital, construction, and expected market prices for developed units, should Hollen meet the... View Details
- 19 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition
substantial experience in the energy industry as a management consultant and as an advisor to the Executive President of the association whose member base generates ~90% of the Chile’s electricity. Joining... View Details
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
Spencer Stuart, directed by Julie Hembrock Daum; and independent researcher and management consultant Deborah Bell. The team worked for over a year before that to identify... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding