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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Because of the different competencies and business models required for the traditional pharmaceutical business vs. pharmaceutical compounding, Imprimis did not have the resources to pursue both of these options at once. Instead, Baum had to decide whether or not to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
sustainability to abandoning for-profit business entirely and re-wilding and conserving millions of acres of lands in Latin America. The book’s distinctiveness lies in the use of original empirical data and the willingness to engage with... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
ambitious visions for a better world,” she says. “This VC model is inherently built on making big bets. VCs are after mega-hits who can return the fund with their stratospheric valuations that are calculated primarily on top-line growth. Now we startups are being... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
separate the issue of paying for retirement from the issue of structuring how we do it. The fundamental problem we have right now is that we are not paying for retirement. Too many American businesses have used the opportunity to abandon... View Details
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
and switching to Chinese firms. Wal-Mart has even hired the owners or managers of its abandoned U.S. suppliers to teach their efficient methods to the Chinese. As a result, many Americans have lost their manufacturing jobs and often have... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
University and then to HBS, eventually settling in Tokyo to begin his career, which has included founding GLOBIS Management School and GLOBIS Capital Partners, a VC firm. He hadn’t been back to Mito in 34 years. Hori was distressed by what he saw: Shuttered department... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
huge populations, China and India (where groundwater supplies in Delhi are expected to run dry by 2015) are especially susceptible to these water stresses. Dry nations will increasingly abandon agriculture because of water scarcity, as is... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
then the sellers surprisingly asked to renegotiate the terms of the note they had agreed to early in the acquisition process. Medoff must decide whether to renegotiate the debt or abandon the transaction. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
manufacturing plant in West Bengal state, in the face of widespread farmer protests over land acquisition issues. This meant abandoning a project in which the company had invested $300 million and delaying the launch of the Nano, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
and announcing the product launch through social media channels, the company finds significant customer interest. With only two weeks of promising data, the CEO must decide whether or not to abandon the planned sale to pursue the new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Commencement 2011 Address | About
will shine if you show humility. Humility as a component of character takes work. It takes constant conscious effort. It is that effort that I believe has been abandoned by so many in positions of power across all sectors of society. Your... View Details
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
in determining how and when to abandon intuition in favor of a more deliberate, analytical approach. Intuition And Rationality In Negotiation To explain why individuals don't always think rationally and logically, Keith Stanovich of the... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
alienating members and would prompt some to abandon LinkedIn. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707406 Rwanda: National Economic Transformation Harvard Business School Case 706-491 Set in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
empirical results are consistent with the model's predictions: inexperienced writers are excluded from the market for earlier-stage ideas, restricting their choices to developing the idea fully or abandoning it; writers who have a choice... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
isolated and abandoned to the wolves. This happens despite success, and sometimes because of how success was achieved. It happens to results-producing CEOs pushed out of companies; for example, Mark Hurd of Hewlett Packard, who fudged... View Details
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
research and discuss his contributions to management and economics. We look at three distinct bodies of work. In the first, Clark (in conjunction with Robert Hayes and Steven Wheelwright) argued that the abandonment by U.S. managers of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
business. Indeed, sometimes the inherent conflicts are just too large. At times, says Urquhart, "we'd find that there was a mind shift partway through the year," as people would abandon the most innovative and risky parts of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
Winning streaks end when organizations move away from and neglect the cornerstones and basics that led to winning. This includes denial in seeing apparent problems, lack of open communications, and panicking, which results in anxiety, View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
competitors' scores are increasing faster it should be a cause for alarm. Acquisition rates may be robust, but if old customers are abandoning ship as fast as new ones are coming on board, strong acquisition can give a deceptive picture... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
explains. “Rather than abandon U.S. manufacturing, my thinking was that once we had established a capability in China, we could then reinvest back in the United States and reinvent ourselves as a global player.” Working with a Chinese OPM... View Details