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- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
Tanfeeth, decided that Tanfeeth would begin by improving processes at the bank. However, two years after its founding, some Tanfeeth executives felt that the organization needed to take on work from outside clients. They were concerned... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
restructuring. Gilson's case studies have been used extensively in executive programs and are perfect tools to refer to when faced with real-world corporate restructuring issues. The Co-Mingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
would be well-placed to monitor the financial condition of a mega bank and set the compensation of its senior executives in order to attain its dual goals of maximizing long-term profits for its shareholders without taking risks that... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
How should managers and executives recognize and change the dynamics? A: The first step is for project managers to know that this will almost certainly happen during at least some of their assignments. Performance pressure is ubiquitous... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
certain businesses—those led by executives with a talent for sensing what their customers want—can forgo deep research into customers' feelings, at least in the short-term. But over the long-term, firms need to have an organizational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
"expatriate" from the United States and reincorporate in tax havens in the Caribbean several years ago to avoid the U.S. tax system, their chief executives were labeled "Benedict Arnold CEOs." As such, this topic has... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
well.” Sarah Usdin says she founded NSNO "almost by accident" as she used her local and national education network to assist many charter school entrepreneurs who were launching schools right after the storm. As a former Teach For America corps member and... View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
the retrenchment, leaving the business facing a significant debt payment coming due. TPG must decide whether to sell the business and get out "whole," or whether it can develop and execute a more successful strategy going... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
non-CEO executives in banks with materialistic CEOs insider trade more aggressively around government intervention during the financial crisis. Finally, we find that banks with materialistic CEOs have significantly more downside tail risk... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
silence from top executives and vague, misleading public statements—frustrated U.S. government officials and the public. Not until weeks after the news first broke did Toyota organize a clear message around its commitment to return to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310073-PDF-ENG Cosan: Thinking Outside the Barrel Forest Reinhardt, Noel Maurer, and Ricardo Reisen de PinhoHarvard Business School Case 710-017 The Cosan case introduces students and executive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
military significance of wireless technology, especially at sea. It was essentially the creation of the U.S. Navy and a General Electric executive named Owen Young to serve a combination of commercial and security purposes. RCA was a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 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, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107052 BBC Worldwide: Global Strategy Harvard Business School Case 507-034 In January 2007, John Smith, chief executive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
Agency for International Development, LAAD has helped establish and promote hundreds of agribusiness enterprises throughout Latin America—fighting poverty regionally in the way the WDC would do on a global scale. John Browne, chief View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
the significantly increased volumes came increased costs, bringing into question the sustainability of the program. In 2013, Dr. Linus Igwemezie, executive vice president and head of the Novartis Malaria Initiative, reflected on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
couples and individuals from a variety of backgrounds, ages, and sexual orientations to build families. This case examines Circle Surrogacy (CS), one of the premier surrogacy agencies in the world, as its president and founder, John Weltman, was about to share an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
fashion and execute against a higher-ambition agenda. Q: Many companies in your book have a global reach. At the same time, however, they are often connected to a local identity or home base. How do higher-ambition leaders view culture?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
ones. For example, the two Mars missions launched in 1998 were given a budget of only half that of Mars Pathfinder, well before anyone knew how Pathfinder would fare. As one NASA executive remarked, "It was like being in the Olympic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
connections to other European networks, a failure in Swissgrid’s network could interrupt the supply of electricity in Switzerland and much of Europe. Meyer describes the periodic interactive risk workshops conducted at each business unit to identify, assess, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne