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  • 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

The first step is to understand how brands buy these services. What are they looking for? What do they need to learn? How do they go about assessing things like creativity, trust, and loyalty? This set of cases puts the students into the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

cash-only offer from Cablevision, and a $15 billion cash-only offer from KKR and Providence. The fact that both Comcast and Cablevision are themselves family-controlled and with a large wedge between the family's ownership and control View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

Access published online on December 3, 2008) Abstract This article studies the allocation of control when there is disagreement—in the sense of differing priors—about the right course of action. People then value control View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

policy resolution. In so doing, they engender excess burden. This paper posits, calibrates, and simulates a life cycle model with earnings, lifespan, investment return, and future policy uncertainty. It then measures the excess burden from delayed resolution of policy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

Publication:Harvard Business Review 87, no. 5 (May 2009) Abstract Few companies are thinking about hiring right now, but that's a mistake. If history is any guide, staffing will become a front-burner issue once the economic upheaval... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

investment reasons make the decision an important one. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507025 Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (A) Harvard Business School Case 407-037 Tracks of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

decision to launch a hedge fund in India, and the first years of the venture. It also profiles Nirva Patel and describes how they met, married, and managed the transition to a new life in Mumbai, including the impact on her career and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Daily History Record, October 16 and 17, 1929, First Relay Assembly Test Group – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Back to Exhibit Page Daily History Record, October 16 and 17, 1929, First Relay Assembly Test Group Western Electric Company Hawthorne Studies Collection © 2007 President and Fellows of Harvard College; all... View Details
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

Aires exploiting a natural experiment that induced an allocation of property rights that is exogenous to the characteristics of the squatters. There are significant differences in the beliefs that squatters with and without land titles... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006

pharmaceutical companies, government regulators—can play a role in righting the industry. The payoff? Valuable improvements in health care and a shinier future for human well-being. Pre-order this book:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Starting Off on the Right Foot

When business and career psychologist James Waldroop counsels young executives who are starting assignments in a new company, he urges them to act like anthropologists. “For the first six months on the job, your assignment is to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 27 Aug 2007
  • Op-Ed

Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right

Harvard Business School professor John Quelch is debuting a blog on marketing issues at Harvard Business Online. HBS Working Knowledge is reprinting his first entry, which looks at the Mattel toy recall.Mattel has been criticized heavily... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products
  • 13 Jul 2016
  • HBS Case

How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers

New businesses often struggle finding their first customers. The challenge is even more difficult with startups in the sharing economy that launch as platforms connecting independent service providers with consumers. Take Uber. Its... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Transportation
  • 01 Apr 2022
  • News

How Teams Are Retaining Employees Right Now

  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

Persuasion Author: Eric J. Van den Steen Abstract This paper studies a principal's trade-off between using persuasion versus using interpersonal authority to get the agent to "do the right thing" from the principal's perspective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2017 (Revised November 2017)
  • Case

1436: The First Pure Chinese Luxury Fashion Brand?

By: Anat Keinan, Sandrine Crener and Hannah H. Chang
The case traces the birth of 1436, a new luxury brand specializing in cashmere garments. It describes how this venture emerged organically out of a combination of manufacturing and retail expertise with the ambition of creating the first pure Chinese luxury brand. The... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Luxury; Global Strategy; Fashion Industry; China
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  • 13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010

Nyende, Claire Ashton-James, and Michael I. Norton Abstract This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008

intention of the course is to leave the participants actually being leaders and being able to exercise leadership effectively and for the course to contribute to creating a new science of leadership. The course is founded on an ontological model of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

welfare. Yet, our understanding of this decision is limited. Using an instrumental variables strategy and dataset new to this literature, we provide the first precise, causal estimates of the effects of education on financial market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

bankers, board members, or consultants). Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209137 First National Bank's Golden Opportunity Harvard Business School Case 208-072 Executives at View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace