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Business History - Faculty & Research
Structure ; Cash Flow ; Corporate Finance ; Equity ; Stock Shares ; Corporate Governance ; Business History ; Compensation and Benefits ; Recruitment ; Leadership Style ; Growth Management ; Management Succession ; Organizational Culture...
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- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
invested in technology stocks, relative to their style benchmarks, than their older colleagues. Furthermore, young managers, but not old managers, exhibit trend-chasing behavior in their technology stock investments. As a result, young...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Boeing's e-Enabled Advantage Harvard Business School Case 807-011 Examines Boeing's new strategy of offering services to regain market dominance and help its struggling airline customers improve efficiency and profitability. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
This strategic response is more pronounced for vendors whose stocks of patents are small and whose home markets have weak IP systems. Our study is the first to examine the relationship between heterogeneity in national patent systems and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
autonomous, product-focused model to an account-centered matrix structure and will challenge many elements of the company's current organizational design including accountability, revenue and cost allocation, compensation systems, sales and marketing, and also the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
National Grid and as founder and president of National Grid Partners, directing $400 million in startups and internal innovations that offer unique approaches to managing supply and demand, increasing ef ciency, improving response during...
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Deborah Blagg
- 09 Apr 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses
the month" motivate higher performance? Not really—and they may turn off your best employees altogether. Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill Everyone comes to the table with some amount of "altruistic capital," a View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
offering a different set of features, a different array of services, or different logistical arrangements. The Internet affects operational effectiveness and strategic positioning in very different ways. It makes it harder for companies...
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by Michael E. Porter
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
handset business made up increasingly large shares of its operations. In early 2008, on the strength of sky-rocketing sales in those areas and by resurgent sales of Macintosh products, Apple's revenues and its stock price reached record...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
1.17 Field Based Learning/Independent Projects - MBA
of a late drop or unsuccessful completion. Standards for Integrity Compensation, Gifts, and Expense Reimbursements Students may not receive compensation for projects performed for academic credit through the HBS field-based learning program. Compensation includes cash...
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- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
identity network approach offers two advantages: first, it enables scholars to consider more than two identities simultaneously, and second, it helps scholars examine relationships among identities in greater detail. This is important...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
executed by bankers, managers, and investors during the 1990s—trading foreign stocks and bonds, borrowing in foreign currencies—had been illegal in many countries only decades, and sometimes just a year or two, earlier. How and why did...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
cover losses if borrowers default on their loans. Investors, including investments banks, can also purchase credit default swaps on CDOs or MBSs they do not own and receive money if the securities incur losses. Subprime mortgages, which became popular in the 1990s,...
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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
twentieth century, securities in the form of stock became the preferred way of raising capital, and Lehman Brothers issued its first public stock offering for the International...
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- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
requires careful dosing, consideration of harmful side effects, and close supervision. We offer a warning label to accompany the practice of setting goals. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-083.pdf Virtual Team...
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Martha Lagace
- May 2018
- Case
Inditex: 2018
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2018, Inditex, based in Spain, was the largest specialist fashion retailer in the world, generating sales of $31.5 billion in 2017 from a portfolio of eight retail brands selling through a total of 7,475 stores located in 96 countries and from websites in 49...
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Fashion;
Succession;
IPO;
Competition;
Initial Public Offering;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Management Succession;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Retail Industry;
Fashion Industry
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Inditex: 2018." Harvard Business School Case 718-515, May 2018.
- 05 Jul 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?
distribution channel on overall inventory levels and costs. One thing that may have helped generate the HBS offer was an experiment I performed using my own crude version of what would become known as the “beer game.” In my approach, my...
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- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate from the incumbent following increased service quality (price) competition only when the incumbent View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
and so on—has the perverse effect of making you just like everyone else. Youngme's message is simple: Get off the competitive treadmill that's taking you nowhere. Aspire to offer the world something that is meaningfully...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators
the Renaissance, one of the most innovative eras in history. Put simply, innovative thinkers connect fields, problems, or ideas that others find unrelated. The other four discovery skills trigger associational thinking by helping innovators increase their View Details