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- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
including terms of the bids. After winning the auction, Coke's stock price fell dramatically. Coke's Board then refused to approve the deal and withdrew. Quaker then approached Pepsi, the losing bidder, and asked them to submit another... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
concept of "Enterprise 2.0"—a term coined by McAfee on the general idea of how Web 2.0 technologies can be used in business—popped up on Wikipedia, McAfee beamed. "I was bizarrely proud when my work rose to the level of inclusion in... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
businesses.10 Women business owners, even those who declared high-growth goals from the start, still lag men in their willingness to seek bank financing for their enterprises. In 2000, women-owned businesses claimed only 21 percent of the total SBA loans,11 which... View Details
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Staff Directory | Baker Library
Linda brings expertise in business research, database management and product development. Linda oversees Baker’s collection budget to identify resources supporting research and teaching. Linda's commercial background enables savvy license negotiations to obtain the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
but this is a time when focusing on the short term is necessary. As a woman in a male-dominated industry, you stand out. Indeed, women have long been considered bad luck in mines! How do you make change happen? I like to believe that... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
and CEO Thompson terms "satellite infrastructure" (technology that enables people to conduct business activity anywhere on the planet). Before reaching its fifteenth birthday this spring, Virginia-based Orbital will have surpassed $450... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
(sent in by class-notes secretaries) Games 1972J. Section A started our bingo game in the second term of our first year (1971). Cards had the names of roughly a third of the class (24 of 75) on them (5 each for B, I, G, and O and 4 plus... View Details
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
overestimate how much distant others appreciate socially responsible gifts because they focus more than recipients on the symbolic meaning of the gift. Critically, givers have the most to gain from distant others, in terms of strengthened... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
during peaks of the private equity market, when the parent banks arrange more debt financing for in-house transactions yet have the lowest exposure to debt. Using financing terms and ex-post performance, we show that overall banks do not... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
hands-off with long-range planning. That exposes corporations and their shareholders to another—perhaps even greater—risk, say professors Lorsch, of Harvard Business School, and Clark, of Harvard Law School. Boards are giving the long View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
You can't see them, but we've all used "software platforms" over the last few decades, whether they are embedded in the Windows operating system, a cell phone, or game machine. In a new book, the authors term software platforms... View Details
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What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders | Working Knowledge
in terms of helping the organizations he led improve efficiency, but on the negative side, he misused those same tools in a way that was very problematic in the military,” says Simons. It’s important to “learn as much from your failures... View Details
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
government's request for this private sector roadmap and lots of flattering about the need for our outside expertise. But it was clear to me we would not have a clue as to the ground we were standing on or meaningful terms of reference... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
data. First, we use field data on employees' productivity from a mid-size bank in Japan, which we then match with daily weather data to investigate the effect of bad weather conditions (in terms of precipitation, visibility, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
economies is so high. There are all kinds of opportunities for entrepreneurs to develop markets in the private sector. According to some estimates, about half of U.S. GDP is due to business done by intermediaries in the private sector. Government institutions are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
to cheat was tempting, where monitoring seemed absent, and where there was a clear benefit from cheating,” says Gino. “That seems to approximate reality, in terms of the real perils that exist within an organization.” Unbeknownst to the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
enough credibility with physicians in terms of their health care expertise? IBM: IBM has entered the health care data fray with IBM Watson Health, which is intended to bring together clinical, research, and social data from a range of... View Details
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
worried about students going into these culture industries only thinking in terms of traditional management styles and industry structures, bottom lines, and financial incentives, without thinking about what 'creative content' and... View Details
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
American families and businesses. Whether a new fiscal stimulus is merited or even possible is up for debate, but a fiscal retrenchment in the near term is likely to make things worse. Third, alarms about the long-term fiscal challenges... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
Our results indicate that institutional managers that participate in loan renegotiations consequently trade in stock of the same company and outperform other managers by approximately 8.8% in annualized terms in the month following loan... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace