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- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
names: Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, and many others. All that said, it is simply irresponsible for us to tell students, managers, investors, or inventors to just go out and be entrepreneurial. As we are View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008
describes how they assessed their valuations and probabilistic views, and leaves them with a key decision. The (B) case describes their choice as well as the twists and turns leading to the conclusion. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-096.pdf Shamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Being Rated (Revised May 2008) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract We examine how firms respond to third-party ratings of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
HBS OnBoard | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
synchronous sessions with a combination of HBS faculty, social impact practitioners, and alumni to discuss cross-sector topics. Each session will be interactive with opportunities to collaborate with other HBS alumni on problem solving,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Pampered Chef. It was an opportunity to “get out of the boardroom and into the real world,” she says, as well as another moment in which foresight served her well. While at HBS, Britt Cool did a field study on the intersection of... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
profound threat to freedom and stability, as well as to the health and vigor of the global economy. Professor David Moss explores what has happened, what it means, and what can be done, drawing especially on... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
see a ‘pandemic’ of bankruptcy filings in the near future,” Gilson says. “The pandemic analogy is particularly apt, in that if the number of new filings is sufficiently high, the bankruptcy courts, like hospitals treating COVID-19 patients, could View Details
- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
career, and at the same time I could see how policies and regulations were impacting what we did (at New York Presbyterian Hospital),” she said. “I wanted to be part of that conversation.” Rentas's experience at HBS and HKS has allowed... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). I find that large employers are less likely to be subject to an SEC enforcement action, after controlling for firm size,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
New Jersey, Porter earned all-state honors in football and baseball. He also taught himself golf well enough to eventually win a place on the 1968 NCAA All-American golf team while an undergraduate at Princeton, where he also earned... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
for the work (as well as 5 GB of RAM for a run time limit of 12 hrs). If your code is written as above, using LSB_MAX_NUM_PROCESSORS , then your code will detect that 4 cores have been allocated. (Please note the second, long command may... View Details
- May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Gap, Inc., 2000
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
From humble beginnings as a Levi jeans store, by 2000 Gap, Inc. had grown to become the world's leading specialist clothing retailer. Its CEO, Millard S. Drexler, the "merchant prince," was credited with transforming Gap into a global empire, leading the company... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Fashion; Risk and Uncertainty; Competition; Performance Consistency; Problems and Challenges; Globalized Firms and Management; Competitive Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Strategy; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
Wells, John R., and Galen Danskin. "Gap, Inc., 2000." Harvard Business School Case 713-508, May 2013. (Revised March 2014.)
- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product, which can be easily stockpiled by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
2020 print edition of the Academy of Management Journal. “A big lesson for all organizations is to be more thoughtful about the extent to which our expectations for others are rooted in what worked for us, and also to understand that what... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008
Working PapersApplicant and Examiner Citations in U.S. Patents: An Overview and Analysis Authors:Juan Alcacer Abstract Researchers studying innovation increasingly use indicators based on patent citations. However, it is well known that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
by-product produced is exactly the amount that can be produced using the entire waste stream). The operational synergy in the joint production process is manifested as one of two subsidies: the by-product is subsidized by the disposal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
territory—creating something new. What matters as well to a business is capturing the value that is created by the new thing, or by its introduction. It might be hard to get people like Davis to care as much... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
we lack the resources needed for translation and subtitling. We retain the ambition to add China to our list of countries in which we conduct interviews. Can I use the material freely? Yes, for both teaching and research purposes. It cannot View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007
shown to be associated with a 24% increase in US investors' equity FPI holdings. These results are robust to various controls, are not evident for debt capital flows, and are confirmed using an instrumental variables analysis. The use of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008
products, as well as the regulations that sometimes stood in the way. Throughout, the case identifies incentives for both consumers and merchants, including direct costs, efficiency benefits, rebates, and treatment in case of loss or... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace