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    Joseph L. Bower

    JOSEPH L. BOWER, Donald K. David Professor Emeritus, has been a leader in general management at Harvard Business School for 51 years. He also served on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School during its first decade.  He has served in many administrative roles... View Details

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    • 26 Oct 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

    studied searches primarily conducted on behalf of companies with 1,500 to 55,000 employees in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, finance, insurance, real estate, retail, and information technology. United States companies... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
    • 21 Apr 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: April 21

    agenda would, in our opinion, undermine the efforts we will recommend in our second and third papers. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2592630 Is No News (Perceived as) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 Mar 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: March 4, 2008

      Working PapersSell Side School Ties Authors:Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract We study the impact of social networks on agents' ability to gather superior information about firms. Exploiting novel data... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 08 Oct 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

    complicated them: Cost-cutting and remote work mean that both the acquisition and bonding drives are harder to meet via traditional means such as raises and team outings. Uncertainty around the pandemic itself, and its effect on... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
    • 01 Apr 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: April 1, 2008

    for PR firms and their holding-company media conglomerate parents to do so. The public relations industry in the broadest sense has undergone a tremendous amount of consolidation through acquisitions over the past 20 years. It is also... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 20 Oct 2023
    • News

    Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

    a cost of customer acquisition that has more than doubled. In addition to managing those challenges, HBS Online is focused on staying engaged in the market, experimenting with emerging trends like AI, and launching new products. Notable... View Details
    • 16 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Strategy and the Internet

    entire value chain, across almost every company and industry. And because it is an open platform with common standards, companies can often tap into its benefits with much less investment than was required to capitalize on past generations of View Details
    Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
    • 10 Dec 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: December 10

    empirical settings. The organic cluster identification methodology we propose is especially useful when researchers work in global settings where data available at different geographic units complicates comparisons across countries. Download working paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 Jun 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

    regulatory framework, and adjudication capability; but in the private sector there is also the need for a tremendous number of institutions and intermediaries such as information analyzers and advisors, transaction facilitators,... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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    Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

    informing and connecting the buyers, users and sellers of technology. One of CNET Networks' first employees and senior executives, with past responsibilities including COO, CFO and Vice Chairman, Bonnie assumed his current role in 2000.... View Details
    • 12 May 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: May 12, 2009

    does this occur? Across four studies, people justified their dishonest deeds through moral disengagement and exhibited motivated forgetting of information that might otherwise limit their dishonesty. Using hypothetical scenarios (Studies... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Systems Integration Systems Integration Effectively integrated care in multiple locations is an... View Details
    • 12 Dec 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

    counselor at law, not a hired gun. Third, the organization must encourage the free flow of legal and business information to and from managers and lawyers so the lawyers understand the context in which a decision is being made and the... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services
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    My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
    • July 2011
    • Article

    The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship Banking

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Anna Kovner
    This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' bank relationships on the terms of their syndicated loans. Using a sample of 1,590 loans financing private equity sponsored leveraged buyouts between 1993 and 2005, we find that bank relationships are an... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Private Equity; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Investment Return; Relationships; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    • August 2018 (Revised February 2023)
    • Case

    Hubble Contact Lenses: Data Driven Direct-to-Consumer Marketing

    By: Jill Avery and Ayelet Israeli
    As its Series A extension round approaches, the founders of Hubble, a subscription-based, social-media fueled, direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand of contact lenses, are reflecting on the marketing strategies that have taken them to a valuation of $200 million and debating... View Details
    Keywords: DTC; Direct To Consumer Marketing; Health Care; Mobile; Attribution; Experimentation; Experiments; Churn/retention; Customer Lifetime Value; Internet Marketing; Big Data; Analytics; A/B Testing; CRM; Advertising; Marketing; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Media; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Digital Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Social Media; E-commerce; Analytics and Data Science; Health Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; North America; Europe
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    • 21 Dec 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: December 21

    which eventually homogenizes the information space and decreases actors' propensity to form bridging ties, creating a globally separated network; (2) self-containment of the small-world network, or increasing homogenization of the social... View Details
    • 30 May 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

    would love to bid but only if your competitor stays out of the game. Rumors suggest that your competitor is willing to counter your bid, but you believe these are strategic leaks designed to scare you off. You know that your competitor probably doesn't have the... View Details
    Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra