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- 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15
discuss the challenges they face managing the demands of their work lives with their desire for more predictable time with their families. BCG had instituted multiple initiatives to help its consulting staff better achieve work-life... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008
an association, its structure presents many limitations and hurdles to overcome involving investing in technology platform updates and generating ideas and initiatives to monetize the use community. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
businesses after World War II, and how his children and grandchildren have taken the business forward, professionalizing the management and engaging in extensive social investments. The Group became a symbol of ethical capitalism, and through its family foundation have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
years, were designed to alleviate a host of historic problems that had held back Mexico’s economic development. By 2017, although the President’s popularity was at an all-time low, these initiatives were beginning to affect the economy.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016
neglecting information about the original intentions leading to those outcomes. In four experiments, we examine interventions aimed at reducing the outcome bias. Contrary to our initial predictions, individuals weighed others' outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12
Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy Abstract We conducted an analysis that explores the merits of a low-carbon development strategy for Liberia. This chapter describes both our cost-benefit analysis initiative and a plausible... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
may file for an initial public offering by the end of 2011, according to the New York Times. "Groupon has attracted remarkable interest," says Harvard Business School professor Benjamin G. Edelman. "With the economy... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
launched there four to six years after their initial U.S. launches. This gave BeiGene a window of opportunity to develop drug candidates toward known targets with known mechanisms of actions that would allow it to become first-in-class in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/118009-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-058 A. Lange & Söhne The case describes how A. Lange & Söhne became one of world’s leading watch companies. Its obsession with quality and innovation were behind its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
about how companies could focus on “doing well by doing good,” and they jointly initiated four projects on which they could collaborate. Ahmed planned to leverage these projects to transform Fujitsu’s innovation culture by illustrating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21
sustainability solutions to a range of client organizations. Megaprojects are finite-duration initiatives involving multiple diverse entities in the design and delivery of a large-scale development, such as a brand new ecologically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
public role in ensuring the industry's survival. Indeed, governments from London to New Delhi have announced venture initiatives in the past few months. Q: Why is there a need for government encouragement of entrepreneurship and VC?... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008
and lower their ambitions when rejected. We derive the comparative statics with respect to the sellers' initial reputation, the probability of fortuitous disclosure, the sellers' self-knowledge and impatience, and the concentration of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
months after the initial filing. We show that firms that are targeted by activists are more likely to get acquired than those in a control sample. Finally, we show that the portfolios managed by activist investors perform poorly during a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
the term "latent voice episode" was initiated when a particular organization approached us to better understand why some employees would speak up and others would instead withhold potentially valuable information. In other... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
watching the response." Let them lead while you learn. When you identify new offerings or markets where your assessment of initial risk versus potential returns suggests caution, a competitor may do you the favor of venturing onto... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
uncovered significant differences in performance associated with their respective strategies for competing in that industry.10 This format of combining industry notes with company cases, which had been initiated at Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
started FairMarket three years ago. My take on where the market was heading three years ago was similar to Glen's: that dynamic pricing was going to be a significant market opportunity where buyers and sellers could come together and basically set a fair market value... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
Hi-R-Me: Making Sales Calls This case study focuses on a professional services firm (“Performance Improvement Consulting”) and its sales calls on Hi-R-Me, a potential client. The case is supplemented by videos showing the initial contact... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Business School Case 717-431 Elon Musk's Big Bets Between late 2014 and late 2016, Tesla CEO Elon Musk undertook several major, and risky, initiatives that would dramatically expand the scale and scope of Tesla’s business. In late 2014,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne