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- 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008
capitalists bid for the right to invest on those terms by proving that they can add value to BzzAgent, Inc. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807057 Corning: 156 Years of Innovation Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
Retail executives aren’t always giving stockholders the straight scoop about the financial standing of their companies in comments around earnings announcements—and some may be providing misleading information, potentially for their own... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
the proxy statements of 478 large U.S. companies, analyzing executive compensation between 1980 and 1994. "We built a database that enabled us to measure with great precision, using the Black-Scholes formula, how much top View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
without the involvement of any central authority. The blockchain technology had given rise to smart contracts (embedded computer codes that would automatically execute a particular set of actions), and initial coin offerings (an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
position as the seventh-largest U.S. financial institution. It would also unlock substantial value not currently reflected in the stock. Each faced major obstacles and execution risks, however. In particular, no one knew the precise... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
book, Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth, coauthored with HBS professor William Kirby and Regina Abrami of the Wharton School. In addition to teaching in several HBS Executive Education programs, McFarlan has been a... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015
Tanfeeth, decided that Tanfeeth would begin by improving processes at the bank. However, two years after its founding, some Tanfeeth executives felt that the organization needed to take on work from outside clients. They were concerned... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
restructuring. Gilson's case studies have been used extensively in executive programs and are perfect tools to refer to when faced with real-world corporate restructuring issues. The Co-Mingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
would be well-placed to monitor the financial condition of a mega bank and set the compensation of its senior executives in order to attain its dual goals of maximizing long-term profits for its shareholders without taking risks that... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
How should managers and executives recognize and change the dynamics? A: The first step is for project managers to know that this will almost certainly happen during at least some of their assignments. Performance pressure is ubiquitous... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008
certain businesses—those led by executives with a talent for sensing what their customers want—can forgo deep research into customers' feelings, at least in the short-term. But over the long-term, firms need to have an organizational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
"expatriate" from the United States and reincorporate in tax havens in the Caribbean several years ago to avoid the U.S. tax system, their chief executives were labeled "Benedict Arnold CEOs." As such, this topic has... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
well.” Sarah Usdin says she founded NSNO "almost by accident" as she used her local and national education network to assist many charter school entrepreneurs who were launching schools right after the storm. As a former Teach For America corps member and... View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007
the retrenchment, leaving the business facing a significant debt payment coming due. TPG must decide whether to sell the business and get out "whole," or whether it can develop and execute a more successful strategy going... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
way New England eats. As executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, Kendall is dedicated to increasing the production and consumption of local, sustainably produced food. He was... View Details
- 09 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 9
as several guidelines and best practices. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/a-note-on-seeking-receiving-and-giving-advice/an/314071-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-107 Vaxess Technologies, Inc. In February 2014, Michael Schrader, chief View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
Staffing, risks, benefits, and regulatory compliance are all increasingly externalized, most often to parts of the world where need routinely trumps prudence. Rather than manage their own corporate assets, CEOs and other top executives of... View Details
- 15 May 2007
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First Look: May 15, 2007
inducing immediate execution of the order are functionally equivalent to bid and ask prices and can be solved for various transaction sizes to characterize the market maker's entire supply curve. We find considerable empirical support for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
or #2 or else fix, sell, or close. Yet, they reinforced a strong bond between the company and its employees as in the H-P Way or GE as the "boundaryless company." They celebrated and promoted innovation—encouraging employees from the shop floor to the highest... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
business officer," who manages the business model within the company, looking for additional ways to grow the current business and ways to identify and execute a new business for the company. Throughout the company, people should... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne