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- 13 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen
uncovered this dynamic in a series of studies conducted with coauthors Francis Flynn, professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Hanne Collins, an HBS doctoral student in organizational behavior. Their report, Are You... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
Numerous survivors were reported to be awaiting rescue, and within a week, an international rescue party gathered at the scene, which had seemingly possessed all that was needed for a successful rescue. Yet they failed to save anybody.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?
Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the... View Details
- December 2006 (Revised January 2007)
- Case
Restructuring Navigator Gas Transport Plc
By: C. Fritz Foley
How should creditors pursue their claims in a multi-jurisdiction bankruptcy? David Butters, Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, negotiates a restructuring of Navigator Gas Transport, a shipping company that is headquartered in Switzerland, incorporated in the Isle of... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Complexity; Capital Structure; Restructuring; International Finance; Law; Ship Transportation; Shipping Industry; Switzerland; Isle of Man
Foley, C. Fritz. "Restructuring Navigator Gas Transport Plc." Harvard Business School Case 207-092, December 2006. (Revised January 2007.)
- 15 Aug 2022
- Book
University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed
is a place, like the contemporary United States, of real income inequality across its schools, even as its students are recruited from every sector of American life. Like the United States, it has enviable resources, and it manages to... View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
2007) Abstract This article explores the barriers and facilitators experienced by ethnic minority medical students in achieving personal and professional success. Cyclical Wages in a Search-and-Bargaining Model with Large Firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
Edmondson, who chairs the Doctoral Programs and teaches in the Technology and Operations Management unit. "To cite one example, former HBS doctoral student Jim Detert and I interviewed some 200 people of all ranks and functions in a... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
numerical tests, sales forecasts from our model are more accurate than forecasts from time-series models that ignore inventory and price as well as forecasts from financial analysts. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-056.pdf View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
a detailed financial model that will help students analyze the impact of hiring additional sales people and the consequent impact on sales and profits. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/813114-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
open up within them, giving companies a powerful mechanism for arbitrage across national financial markets. Managing these internal markets to build an advantage requires that CFOs must balance new financial opportunities with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Alibaba Group's transition from a startup to a multibusiness firm with over 15,000 employees in just over a decade. They analyze the evolving dynamics of internal competition and cooperation among Alibaba Group's subsidiaries. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
willing to give time, money, energy, and good will to their country of origin and is being pushed away. Fortunately, this situation has been changing in India in the last 4 to 5 years. In China, by and large, the diaspora has played a much bigger role. In 1978, China... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
allocate more internal money to the fund, or should they open it up to third party investors? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315109-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 215-038 The Complexity of Vanguard's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
Curriculum Strategy course to students at Harvard Business School. Purchase this overview: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707492 Kerr-McGee Harvard Business School Case 207-020 Activist investors Carl Icahn... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
which in 2005 surpassed the NFL in viewership, and Berggren's options in developing a plan to exploit new opportunities for his organization. Challenges students to develop a business plan in an industry where new technology and new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
behaviors, and values of a legacy organization, changing a business model from paper to digital, capitalizing on huge brand awareness and international presence, and promoting cross-functional and cross-divisional collaboration.... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
disruptors, produce profitable growth, and strengthen institutions at the community, national, and international levels. Publisher's Link: http://hbr.org/product/capitalism-at-risk-rethinking-the-role-of-business/an/13297-HBK-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS internal and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
professor of organizational behavior at Brandeis University International Business School, have described their work in two papers: "The Emotional Tightrope of Downsizing: Hidden Challenges for Leaders and their Organizations,"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
direct-selling cosmetics company involved in emerging markets exhibits significant foreign exchange risk exposure and profitability swings in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Students must review the company's use of derivative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne