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- 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008
capitalists bid for the right to invest on those terms by proving that they can add value to BzzAgent, Inc. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807057 Corning: 156 Years of Innovation Harvard Business... View Details
- 09 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 9
as several guidelines and best practices. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/a-note-on-seeking-receiving-and-giving-advice/an/314071-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-107 Vaxess Technologies, Inc. In February 2014, Michael Schrader, chief View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
Staffing, risks, benefits, and regulatory compliance are all increasingly externalized, most often to parts of the world where need routinely trumps prudence. Rather than manage their own corporate assets, CEOs and other top executives of... View Details
- 15 May 2007
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First Look: May 15, 2007
inducing immediate execution of the order are functionally equivalent to bid and ask prices and can be solved for various transaction sizes to characterize the market maker's entire supply curve. We find considerable empirical support for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
or #2 or else fix, sell, or close. Yet, they reinforced a strong bond between the company and its employees as in the H-P Way or GE as the "boundaryless company." They celebrated and promoted innovation—encouraging employees from the shop floor to the highest... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
business officer," who manages the business model within the company, looking for additional ways to grow the current business and ways to identify and execute a new business for the company. Throughout the company, people should... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
aspect of business is up for re-evaluation as a result of the pandemic, from the most granular to the most overarching level. Two executives shared vivid descriptions of the early days when the reality of the pandemic set in. It was like... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
shuttle disaster to explore the relationship between data visualization, effective communication, and decision-making. Students review and analyze excerpts from the 13 charts engineers presented to NASA executives the night before the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
practical use by managers or teaching by instructors of MBAs and executive MBAs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51126 The Climate Custodians By: Eccles, Robert G., and Tim Youmans Abstract—Can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
executives with general-management responsibility. Our findings revealed that the shift from corporate communication to organizational conversation has occurred because of several long-term changes that have affected the business world... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
interviews of over 80 individuals from 6 service delivery units and 8 support departments that provide them with equipment and supplies, we find that a lack of interconnectedness among interdependent departments-rather than errors or View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
operationalization of meaningful economic activity. As a first step to redressing this shift, we offer a definition and operationalization of meaningful action, and we propose a typology of executive behaviors as a foundation for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the use of genetic resources. Although the treaty had been in effect for almost 15 years, progress was slow. CBD Executive Secretary Ahmed Djoghlaf needed to increase the participation of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
"Bye Bye Bundles: The Unbundling of Music in Digital Channels." Sean Silverthorne: First, what gave you the idea for this study? How did you do the research? Anita Elberse: As with most of my research, the idea emerged after a conversation with an View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
silos are one reason for the lack of integration. More important, however, is the lack of a common framework and even language that would allow engineers, lawyers, and business executives to manage IP assets better. This article provides... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
Supplement to HBS No. 817-018. The (B) case briefly outlines what the co-founder and CEO want to do about the issues in the (A) case and the questions this response raises in the mind of the executive charged with implementing the CEO’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
This is an abridgment of HBS No. 911-066. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/915016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-039 NBCUniversal In September 2014, Stephen Burke, chief executive officer at media and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
conservatism. Competitive Advantage and the Value Network Configuration: Making Decisions at a Swedish Life Insurance Company Authors:Øystein D. Fjeldstad and Christian H.M. Ketels Periodical:Long Range Planning Journal 39, no. 2 (April 2006): 109-131. Abstract View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
people like network giant Ted Turner and Bruce Willis in his film roles. Executives were now portrayed as similar warrior-athletes who ventured into out-of-bounds challenges like technical rock climbing. These were the masculine ideals... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2021
- What Do You Think?
Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?
or product doing what is, on balance, good for the business? Will their identification with an issue attract more customers than it drives away? Will it attract the kind of employee who shares the values implied by the CEO’s position? Of course, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett