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- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
purely symbolic effects can materialize when former employers are highly prominent because these hires increase the hiring organization's market visibility. Leveraging an idiosyncratic feature of wine markets (i.e., the variable time lag... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 10 (November 1975). Merton, Robert C. Foreword to Managing Derivative Risks: The Use and Abuse of Leverage , by Lillian Chew. New York, N.Y.: John Wiley and Sons, 1996. Merton, Robert C.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
incentive. However, with a recruiter that is trusted and valued, who has successfully worked with the firm for a significant period of time, the hiring firms can leverage their insight of candidates to increase hiring success. Recruiters,... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
must figure out how best to support the senior research analysts in leveraging their franchises. And with a recent wave of attrition among Bernstein's research associate ranks in Hong Kong, de Charentenay and the management team must also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
and further development of the original cluster framework. The fourth part then explores the policy implications to be drawn from Porter's work on clusters. Porter develops recommendations on how to leverage clusters as a tool in economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
getting proximate to the lived experiences of those most impacted by racism, which for many of us, means identifying and collaborating with local champions and nonprofits who can allow us to efficiently and effectively leverage our skills... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
Neeley, the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, leverages years of research to help companies, and their leaders, address the challenges of virtual work. With well over half of Americans indicating a preference for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
even when that is costly or difficult or unpopular. It’s a choice to leverage up your company to the hilt, to pile on nonrecourse debt to pay special dividends to the owners and then walk away if the business falters and the debt comes... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
the foundation of change. The idea behind Millennium Villages is to bring a holistic approach to development, targeting agriculture, education, health, and infrastructure. We’re leveraging the knowledge and expertise of local clusters of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
leaders through Bridgestar, a nonprofit executive recruiting service leveraged by technology; and to create a robust source of knowledge from those activities that can be shared freely — and free of charge — with others. “The vast... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
third strategy is very different from the second, which is to (concede) we lost the operating system war, and instead leverage our brand, our industrial design skills, and our application base. This strategy would suggest that Apple give... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
simultaneously manage the seemingly contradictory dualities of the job: integrating direct decision-making with indirect levers like strategy and culture, balancing internal and external constituencies, proactively pursuing an agenda while reacting to unfolding events,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
global by applying innovative growth strategies at home. Rule 2: Always bring something new to market. Without an element of novelty, it will be difficult for retailers to overtake entrenched rivals. Rule 3: Differentiation is more important than synergies. View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Equity. It provides an opportunity to discuss a variety of issues related to leveraged buyouts including the process, the role of private equity, the incentives of the participants, the benefits to conflicting shareholders, and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
marketplace.” And IBM is attempting to leverage its expertise to get its share of that, he says. Doing so, analysts say, will be the foundation for IBM deep into the 21st century. “Transformation and transition is something IBM does very... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
this effect drives advisor reactions to one of the most widely recommended advice-seeking strategies: seeking advice from multiple advisors to leverage the wisdom of crowds. Advisors negatively judge and interpersonally distance... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
risk management. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216041-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 297-047 Stone Container Corporation (A) In early 1993, Stone Container was heavily burdened by debt following a series of highly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
number of Americans eligible for cancer prevention and treatment. The new strategy brings with it considerable political risk. Leveraging an organization with three million volunteers, this case describes how he skillfully transforms the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
also points out that the locational agenda for companies has broadened: they need to focus not just on choosing the right location, but on developing their strategies to leverage the locations in which they are present and on investing in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
Describes how Royal DSM NV, an $8 billion dollar global corporation, leveraged information technology to enable a major corporate portfolio transformation between 2000 and 2006. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace