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  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

be able to experiment with the economics and logistics of a pizza business and gain firsthand experience of his customers as well. The outlet was an instant hit, but Pujals resisted the temptation to immediately replicate it. He waited a year before View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

performance of the district's lowest performing schools. But, relatively few BTR graduates joined these schools-they were free to pursue teaching openings at any school in the district. Solomon knew the potential to partner more closely... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

RichardsonHarvard Business School Case 812-035 Samir Kaul, a partner at Khosla Ventures, looked out his office window. It was late June 2011, and like almost every day in Menlo Park, the sun was shining. Kaul was reflecting on what had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

culture. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510091-PDF-ENG Major League Baseball Advanced Media: America's Pastime Goes Digital Anita Elberse and Brett LaffelHarvard Business School Case 510-092 In January 2010, Bob Bowman, chief executive View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

new community was faced with how best to construct the vertical and attract a sufficiently large audience. While the model seemed highly scalable because each vertical used the same core technology, every sector had its unique features. In the fall of 2007, executives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

At General Motors' Car Assembly Plant in Wilmington, DE, there is a film that managers like to show when times get tough. Dating to 1991, the film opens with a GM executive saying that the plant will be closed in three years. There is no... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
  • 23 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 23, 2016

officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

of trade finance terms is shaped by the risk that an importer defaults on an exporter and by the possibility that an exporter does not deliver goods as specified in the contract. The empirical results indicate that cash in advance and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

long been based on the principle of delegating tasks to subordinate officers (take the hill without specifying how, leaving it to the judgment of the relevant unit commander—called Aufgabentaktik), while the American army tends to follow... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

analysis are based on publicly available information, and also, and perhaps even more importantly, on our Chief Executive's survey we have conducted earlier this year. More than 4,500 Chief Executive Officers have responded to that... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

with open disagreement). The paper thus provides micro-foundations for the idea that bringing a project inside the firm gives the manager control over that project, while explaining concentrated asset ownership, low-powered incentives,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

and written about Apple for the last decade, generating several case studies. His latest case, Apple Computer 2004, co-written with research associate Debbie Freier, was recently published by Harvard Business School Publishing. Yoffie sat down with HBS Working... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

information is a central determinant of a firm's demand function, even for purchases as large as college attendance. When Do User Innovators Start Firms? A Theory of User Entrepreneurship Authors:Sonali Shah and Mary Tripsas Publication:In Revolutionizing Innovation:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

study that married their shared interests in healthcare, technology, and entrepreneurship. Rock Health supported health-tech entrepreneurs with a startup grant of $20,000, office space, and a wide variety of professional support services.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

perceive the quality of others' decisions to be greater when other individuals engage in the right amount of thinking for the situation. These assessments then affect observers' own decisions and openness to influence. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 16 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

and they basically are good people, but they are open to suggestion. They are temptable. And the challenge I have as a CEO," he said, "is to create an organization, that in its culture, its systems, and its processes, helps... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
  • 09 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

previous books: the Watsons of IBM, Sam Walton, for example. What led you to focus this time on Andy Grove? Tedlow: Having looked at CEO's, as you mentioned, in other books, and really having studied the phenomenon of the chief executive View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer
  • 29 Apr 2020
  • Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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