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- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
having two buildings built with significant leaning away from vertical. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209052 Purchase this supplement:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Strategy researchers-testing firm heterogeneity, predicting firm-specific effects, and estimating trade-offs in strategy-using both synthetic and actual datasets. These examples showcase the potential uses of RCMs to test and build theory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Case 809-024 Geoff Smart, founder and CEO of ghSMART & Co., wanted to build ghSMART into the #1 management-assessment firm for CEOs and investors. However, he had just received two pieces of very bad news: the demise of an existing... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
changing this since it is focused on the material issues that affect a company’s ability to create value over the short-, medium-, and long-term. Each country must take its own path to integrated reporting. This is illustrated by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
They also developed a learning experience, titled "Innovation Magic", that builds on their insights and backgrounds as teacher, researcher, and performer. The experience starts with magic performances by Randal and ends with a two-hour... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
stalled around mid-2007, just a few months after Facebook had released its programming platform which allowed outside programmers to build applications using its social network data. The wealth of new applications on Facebook allowed the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
George: In terms of building the business, they expanded and gave everyone free access. What people didn't know is that was in exchange for profiling the information. Now, in his defense, Mark wrote a defense recently in the Wall Street... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
and cultural assets, as well as skills and ideologies across borders. The chapter argues that capitalism proved much better than political leaders in building institutions that coordinated activities across borders, but also points to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
knowledge management and offers insight for supporting team performance. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2101693 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 309-004 Loews Corporation: Corporate Strategy as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
reduction of firm variability, we do not find this offsetting beneficial effect to be strong. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44730 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 413-065 Omar... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
draws on theories of entrepreneurship and history to explore the ways in which historical processes play an integral role in entrepreneurship. It builds off the plea by Joseph Schumpeter for an active exchange between historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
Abstract Supply-chain disruptions have a material effect on company value, but this impact can vary considerably. Thus, it is important for managers and investors to recognize the types of disruptions and the organizational factors that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
to practice and from simple to complex, the present paper builds on that work. It illustrates several classes of practical measures that negotiators can use to advance their own interests by focusing on the other side's Level II... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
labor materially alters pre-retirement portfolio choice by significantly raising optimal equity holdings. Using this model, we also investigate the welfare costs of constraining portfolio allocations over the life-cycle to mimic popular... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
point. To help them establish a commercialization strategy, the Hövding board had prevailed upon the founders to hire a professional CEO. But surrendering management control was an emotional process for Haupt and Alstin, while the CEO struggled to assert his leadership... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
piece of "take away" material that can be shared with colleagues in professional service firms that is detailed and operational in nature. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=908415... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
& Private Equity: A Casebook, 5th edition provides an understanding of the ways in which private equity groups work. The casebook builds an understanding of the key distinctions in the industry and reviews and applies key ideas of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
customers. Often, this process leads to new strategic partnerships with targeted customers. For example, Rockwater, an undersea construction company in the Halliburton organization, competed mainly on price, a typical practice in the construction industry. As it began... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
build on the experience acquired so far to improve their methodology? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818077-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-078 Transformation at ING (B): Innovation Supplement to HBS No.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
that corporate insiders' excess control rights aggravate the potential risks of insider expropriation of outside investors and thereby increase firms' external finance constraints. Cases & Course Materials Woolf Farming and Processing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace