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- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Business School Case 207-092 How should creditors pursue their claims in a multi-jurisdiction bankruptcy? David Butters, Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, negotiates a restructuring of Navigator Gas Transport, a shipping company that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
Douglas B. Holt says brand managers have little appreciation for how myths in American culture can be used to create "extraordinary" brand-building opportunities. In this e-mail interview, Holt discusses a recent working paper... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
increased biosimilar penetration. Our estimates can inform ongoing policy discussions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54886 forthcoming Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Fluid View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
maximization as your standard, most people's sense of success demands high scores in many differing categories. Sometimes these goals contradict each other: Wealth and best friends who love you for yourself, not your money. A generous nature and being in the View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
hypotheses underlying the firm's balanced scorecard and strategy map reveal problems with the strategy on a timelier basis. We also test alternative hypotheses to those underlying the firm's formal strategy map and scorecard that are consistent with concerns expressed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2009
- HBS Case
The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine
domestic and internecine dynamics affect the management of a state-controlled company. "Reinserting itself in the energy sector, the Russian state has installed a world-class, market-oriented management... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i) reduce the number of positions between the CEO and division managers (DM), (ii)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
specializing in building and managing prisons. Students must assess the firm's strategy and risks, evaluate key financial reports, derive forecasts of future performance, and use these forecasts to value the firm. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
to be inconsistent, if not contradictory. "In the ultimate analysis, however everything boils down to perception of the team members or subordinates or followers of the leader concerned." The importance of maintaining an open... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
elective course, Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact, which she teaches to second-year MBA students at HBS and select students from Harvard Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government. The User's... View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
products at medium and small retailers. F. Warren McFarlan "[Li & Fung's] expertise comes in managing all customer relationships, knowing who is good at what, who has high quality, who has low quality; and they are specialists in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711486-PDF-ENG Volkswagen do Brasil: Driving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard Robert S. Kaplan and Ricardo Reisen de PinhoHarvard Business School Case 111-049 A new management View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
F-16 HARM targeting system; chief of the Astronaut Office Robotics Branch; and, currently, the commander of the International Space Station (ISS), where he has lived since November 23, 2014. “If you have a team like this, you let them... View Details
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
higher prices," says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, who spent 12 years running a professional services firm. That's right. Higher prices, not lower. “Competing on price is ultimately a bet on your cost position.” Cespedes View Details
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
commemorate the HBS milestone. Beyond moving the overarching topic of women and leadership, speakers examined the role academic research plays and how that research can be used for what Ely termed "a lever for change." “Better lives come through a redesign of... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
you say in the book that he was also a natural leader. That he was blessed with management skills, which he honed to a very fine point. What were some of the management principles that made him such a... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
Building sufficient cash reserves to launch a business and managing subsequent fundraising are challenges for every entrepreneur, but they are particularly daunting tasks for women. Women often come up short of cash at start-up and, when... View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Multinational Banking 1830-1990, and Professor of Management Practice Dante Roscini, who held top leadership roles in the capital markets units of Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley before... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
complexity and broad implications for today. In a remarkably globalized industry, Porsche is a rare example of a company staking its brand, in this example the Cayenne, on the image of one particular country. Wiedeking, regularly ranked as one of Germany's View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
creditors for quality reporting. In contrast, the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis posits that public equity firms, because their managers have a greater incentive to manage earnings, have lower... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace