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- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
document the Norwegian business community's reaction to the quota, how Norwegian boards sought women directors, and the transferability of the quota law to other nations. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411089-PDF-ENG Baxter's Asia Pacific... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
So far, one half of these networks have been considered successful, and now the board needs to decide what to do to make the remainder successful. Two options were considered. The first option, called "broad networks," focused on developing weaker ties and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
did not achieve its launch targets.1 They realized that a reason for the initial failure was that the company had used an existing channel. This channel was well suited to take another product—the Rohm and Haas 886 liquid biocide—to a... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
initial public offerings to longitudinal data on employment composition from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. We construct a set of comparable firms by looking at companies that filed and then withdrew a plan for an IPO. To... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16
transitions to a decade after Rickenbach made this strategic decision, describing the development of the industry and PAREXEL's place within it. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/314056-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-027 Mayo... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
Federal Reserve System, a new agency, or a coordinating body of existing regulators." On Capitol Hill, Barney Frank, the Democratic chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, initially championed the Fed as a systemic risk... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
frontline employees take initiative to improve their work systems to prevent operational failures. Drawing on the system improvement and team-learning literatures, we develop a framework of frontline system improvement and test it using... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
of Wenzhou Kangning Hospital Co, Ltd. from founding to just before its initial public offering to illustrate the extraordinary entrepreneurship happening in China’s healthcare space. It highlights the challenges of China’s mental health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17
increasingly tied to the sway of private financial interests, and how postwar administrations finally extricated the U.S. from economic interventionism, even though the government had the will and power to continue. Maurer examines the ways that American investors... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
initiative with domestic, international, and U.N. fronts; and 3) launching a new venture requiring internal, capital-raising, licensing, and industrial partnering deals. The need to negotiate multiple, related deals is not new to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
Joshua Weiss Abstract In the face of daunting barriers, the Abraham Path Initiative envisions uncovering and revitalizing a route of cultural tourism that follows the path of Abraham and his family some 4,000 years ago across the Middle... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
initially reacted to technology, to a brand-new thing, in this latter case to cell phones and how they make us rude. This is a thematic book of stories before it is a chronological book of stories. Some of the stories, very purposefully,... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009
from initiating and smoothing communication to establishing long-lasting relationships and mutual trust, and from bargaining and drafting agreements to securing their implementation. Chinese negotiators can be at once warm hosts and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
customers. Often, this process leads to new strategic partnerships with targeted customers. For example, Rockwater, an undersea construction company in the Halliburton organization, competed mainly on price, a typical practice in the construction industry. As it began... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
quantifiable or visible to the hospitals and insurance companies. Without external support for the telemonitoring initiative from insurance companies, it would be difficult for VNHS to keep up the momentum and ramp up telemonitoring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
data indicate an increase in the number of initial export episodes in response to reform. These results suggest that the expansion of multinational activity more than offsets any decline in the imitative activity of indigenous firms. PDF... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
with an initial enterprise value between $5 million and $15 million. Just seven months after raising the fund, they were about to close a deal on a target company, but the seller wants to renegotiate. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
initiatives will fail. Opening space for a mutually acceptable nuclear deal-that avoids both military conflict and a nuclear-armed or nuclear-capable Iran-requires relentlessly and creatively worsening Iran's no-deal options while... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel