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  • 21 Mar 2016
  • Lessons from the Classroom

When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)

why this launch worked despite violating the rules.” But for every smash hit like Beyoncé’s, the entertainment industry sure sees its fair share of flops. “A lot of products these companies introduce fail,” Elberse says. “If you think... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports; Media & Broadcasting; Education
  • 30 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 30

http://hbr.org/search/613083-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-027 Société Internationale de Plantations et de Finance (SIPEF) Management of a company with extensive palm oil tree plantations questions the usefulness to management and investors of IAS41's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

that insights into these questions can also help entrepreneurial firms understand where opportunity lies and how they can exploit it. Q: Is it fair to say that companies are cognizant of their own technology strengths and push the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

receiving the reward to reinforce good behavior—because you’re hoping the worker will repeat that behavior.” Consider thoughtful gifts instead of cash Sometimes cash isn’t king. A 2017 study of 600 salespeople found that when a mixed cash and prize reward program was... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 09 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/709495-PDF-ENG Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps Harvard Business School Case 108-038 "Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps" recounts Wal-Mart's use of interest rate swaps to hedge the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

digital activities that impact physical realities. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53823 Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, and Joel Goh Abstract—Assortment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

entrepreneurs so that entrepreneurship is accessible to everyone, that is something deeply linked to undoing some of the injustices of the past and promoting fairness and equity.” In doing this work, Rameriz is operating in alignment with... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

businesses that scale undergo a graduation process in which they meet the varying expectations of multiple organizational resource providers. At the unit level, they convince established core units that the potential value from combining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2020 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care

By: Trevor Fetter and Kira Seiger
This case describes the increasing investment by private equity (PE) firms in patient care and other healthcare services. The case focuses on investments in physician staffing firms and roll-up strategy investments in physician practice management (PPM). Included in... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Change; Disruption; Fluctuation; Trends; Customers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Ethics; Fairness; Finance; Equity; Insurance; Private Equity; Geography; Geographic Scope; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Industry Structures; Ownership; Ownership Type; Private Ownership; Relationships; Agency Theory; Business and Community Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Strategy; Competition; Consolidation; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Value; Value Creation; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; United States
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  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/109079-PDF-ENG IBM in the 21st Century: The Coming of the Globally Integrated Enterprise Rosabeth Moss KanterHarvard Business School Case 308-105 Members of IBM's fifth Integration and Values Team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

for download. Fair (and Not So Fair) Division Author:John W. Pratt Abstract Drawbacks of existing procedures are illustrated and a method of efficient fair division is proposed that avoids them. Given... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

participants? A: A channel steward is someone who is able to interpret the needs of customers (including latent needs) and construct appropriate channels to address them. It is important to underscore that in so doing, a channel steward creates View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

A Matter of Opinion

opened his eyes to the fact that “many different reasons bring people to the School, not just the lure of making money. One of my more conservative classmates said the purpose of business is to give people value for their money, put out a... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic model in which two platforms offer different standalone utilities to users. We find that incentives to establish one-way compatibility—the platform owner with smaller standalone View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • July 2021
  • Supplement

Trouble at Basecamp: Managing Politics, Polarization, and Conflict in the Workplace (B)

By: Nour Kteily, Deepak Malhotra and David Lane
Supplement to the (A) case View Details
Keywords: Change; Communication; Diversity; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Governance; Employees; Working Conditions; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Work-Life Balance; Labor and Management Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Identity; Social Issues; Equality and Inequality; Technology Platform; Information Technology Industry; United States
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  • 20 Jun 2019
  • News

Reframing Modern Art

artists, go to the art fairs with a curator who points out the rising stars, the blockbuster hits, etc, guided tours of exhibitions in museums with the curators. And that was, to some extent, just social, but many of us did become very... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations

been so much at the heart of the School throughout our existence, is alive and well. And I’m encouraging that as much as anything else. What value does FIELD add to the first-year students’ experience? We all agreed that there were three... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 05 Apr 2018
  • News

A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art

“The goal is to have impact,” Joyner says of the collection, which ranges from abstract and figurative paintings to 3-D sculpture made from 1945 to the present. “We own some things we think are important; we spent 20 years refining our view of who we think is best in... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • Web

Inequality in the Digital Age: A Conversation with Mahzarin Banaji - Blog: RGE Report

be free. And yet our history is in opposition to that value.’ When Myrdal wrote the book, he didn't call it, ‘the race problem in America.’ He called it An American Dilemma , and the dilemma was that people in the 1930s and ’40s were dealing with a disparity between... View Details
  • 15 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Deconstructing the Price Tag

consumers tend to value the product more." Mohan is an author of the paper Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency, written with HBS assistant professors Ryan W. Buell and Leslie K. John. Intimate Disclosure Since cost... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail