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- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
source of internal capital. Lawmakers and lobbyists justified its passage by arguing that it would alleviate financial constraints. This paper's results indicate that repatriations did not lead to an increase in domestic investment,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
and case-method teaching, but also for his efforts, as the Robert Walmsley University Professor, to enhance the quality of discussion teaching throughout Harvard. He served at various times as a visiting faculty member at IMEDE (an View Details
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
having some serious unintended consequences, one being the fiction that there is actually a real CEO labor market. Let me elaborate. It is natural to wonder why boards routinely bypass thousands of internal candidates for the ninety or so... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
his current stint at General Catalyst, a private equity fund. Filipowski, who founded software maker PLATINUM Technology and sold it to Computer Associates International in 1999 for approximately $4 billion, said one ingredient for his... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- November 2010 (Revised December 2011)
- Supplement
Oriflame S.A. (C)
By: David F. Hawkins and Karol Misztal
Notes from Oriflame's 2009 annual report relevant to the assessment of the monetary impact of Oriflame's FX risk management actions. View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; International Accounting; Currency Exchange Rate; Annual Reports; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Standards; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Hawkins, David F., and Karol Misztal. "Oriflame S.A. (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-052, November 2010. (Revised December 2011.)
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
product range and a broad customer base. Kvadrat's internal organization had grown and transformed to support this larger business. Now Kvadrat's management team was focused on a number of key initiatives: expansion into Asia, improved... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
micro-VC fund, an incubator, a normal VC fund, or as a hybrid. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813068-PDF-ENG The IASB at a Crossroads: The Future of International Financial Reporting Standards (B) Ramanna, Karthik, Karol... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
what your salespeople (and other customer-facing personnel, such as service personnel) must be good at. Then, the issue is aligning field behaviors with those required tasks and utilizing the appropriate internal levers for doing so. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
decide how to respond to the global economic crisis. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810012-PDF-ENG Intel NBI: Handheld Graphics Organization Harvard Business School Case 608-098 The Handheld Graphics Organization (HGO) was an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
trip, recently talked to Professor Kerr about his research and his observations in China. Mike Roberts: Tell us about your impressions of China. Bill Kerr: My central observation from our trip is that China is at a tipping point for entrepreneurship on an View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
international equity markets, with a highly significant average slope coefficient of 1.05. In sharp contrast, standard factor-model-based proxies fail to exhibit predictive power internationally. We show analytically and empirically that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
substantial international businesses. This working paper argues that diversified business groups added value in mature markets such as Britain. In the domestic economy, Pearson and Virgin created well-managed and performing businesses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
could reshape capitalism and its relationship to society. It could also drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy as it opens managers' eyes to immense human needs that must be met, large new markets to be served, and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
of DaVita William W. George, Natalie KindredHarvard Business School Case 410-065 Kent Thiry, CEO of dialysis provider DaVita, is considering how to integrate employees from recently acquired Gambro Healthcare without damaging DaVita's robust, unconventional View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
challenging in the past, and remains so today, the book argues that one reason was how they have both been defined. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52778 forthcoming Journal of International Economics The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
this case:http://hbr.org/search/513001-PDF-ENG Building a Community at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation Marquis, Christopher, Zucheng Zhou, Mo Chen, and Heng FanHarvard Business School Case 413-083 Over the past... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
demanding that middle- and lower-level managers redo their forecasts, plans, and budgets. In some cases, top executives simply acquiesce to increasingly unrealistic analyst forecasts and adopt them as the basis for setting organizational goals and developing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Case 709-017 Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic banks as well as View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
natural gas strategy to the water and broadband businesses, the unprofitable international power development strategy, the perverse financial incentives for executives, the aggressive use of mark-to-market accounting, the performance... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
managers still need to seek other drivers of creativity. I Want My Functional Experts To Influence High-level Strategy Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer New research by HBS professor Anette Mikes and colleagues looks into how accountants, finance professionals,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun