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- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
The BP case also illustrates that investor relations is increasingly looking for a more strategic role to play within an organization, trying to take its work to a new level. Q: "Investor Relations at TOTAL" is set in a... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
Abstract In many service industries, companies compete with each other on the basis of the waiting time their customers experience, along with other strategic instruments such as the price they charge for their service. The objective of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
explain a little bit about your research in this area? Josh Lerner: By the end of World War II, the corporate research laboratory model was widely adopted in the United States. A corporation would have a... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
to the strategic implications of the Upgrade Program, financial analysts tried to understand the accounting implications, especially the recognition of revenue, which the Upgrade Program could have on Apple’s financials. Analysts’... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
Publications February 2015 Journal of Finance The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Katherine L. Milkman Abstract—Using a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
I stayed in a hotel until the house was ready for occupancy. But then as the security situation deteriorated, I made a decision not to live in the Green Zone. I didn’t want to be associated with the kind of bubble environment that emerged... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
conference with the hope of returning to the country when the situation there is stabilized. We offer our most sincere thanks to members of the organizing committee in Argentina that worked so tirelessly in support of the conference and, when the View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
both host and home governments, and the international legal framework. The second was the market and resources of the host country. The third factor was competition from local firms. The impact of these factors on corporate strategies is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
Meakem: I agree. The benefit of jumping right out is that you don't get cushy; you don't get used to a corporate job with corporate perks and get lulled into submission by staying at a large View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
compromises. But it can happen.” In a unanimous decision made shortly after her concluding remarks, the school board appointed Cognetti to its vacant seat. Headlines the next day put Cognetti’s Harvard MBA front and center—a fact she... View Details
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
of executing on its recently refined strategy. Opinions ranged across the following strategic issues: growing the firm's Asian footprint versus remaining focused in Europe; aiming to be a top performing mid-market firm or focusing on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
professional lives in a new direction. An early pioneer in the high-tech world, Ilene Lang (MBA 1973) worked in senior management and chief leadership roles at established corporations and start-ups alike during the 1980s and ’90s,... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
Utku Ünver explain in a paper, factors such as contracts, control of stadiums, and corporate sponsorship effectively tied the hands of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) into a system of early matching of teams.... View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
Wall Street, this time working in corporate advisory and M&A where she rose into executive level positions and managed massive strategic clients across West Africa. With a hugely successful career and a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
the School's mission of making a difference in the world. While details will be announced next spring, Dean Nitin Nohria and John Hess (AB 1975, MBA 1977), CEO of Hess Corporation and chair of The Harvard Business School Campaign, met... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
transitions, it helps to temper the need to look decisive and have policies with the desirability of asking lots of questions. "The task of a new leader is to shift the cycle from losers’ dysfunctions to the unified team that is able to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
for example. Investors may secure a promising iron ore asset but drag their feet in developing it while waiting for mines elsewhere to deplete. Even after a decision is made to mine, the infrastructure must be built to bring the resources... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- Profile
Lara Hodgson
Lara O’Connor Hodgson thought she’d found the entrepreneurial dream while running Nourish, the successful startup she launched in 2009. But it was Nourish’s very success that triggered Hodgson’s next and even more successful venture, NOWaccount Network View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
of Mom Hacks (2019) MUST LISTEN Stay Free: The Story of the Clash “The decision to have Public Enemy’s Chuck D narrate was absolutely inspired. This series is a great lesson in what it means to innovate, and the mash-up of the birth of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
affect the decision to go public. As the authors shed light on the structure and operations of venture capital firms, three major themes emerge. First, all venture capitalists confront tremendous incentive and information problems, in... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean