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- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Lovett, Bohlen, and Kennan. They had similar educational backgrounds (Groton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton). Four had successful private sector careers as well as extensive public service. They shaped the post-WWII international scene while... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
words, you also need a management plan for your customers. To return to our manufacturing metaphor, the special challenge of service delivery is that your customers routinely wander onto the shop floor-unannounced-and tinker with the assembly line. And yet View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
as a turnaround expert, starting with its own portfolio. Iris must consider the advantages and drawbacks of each position and how each will help her achieve her personal goals. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810073-PDF-ENG Founder-CEO View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3
proprietary technology, athenaNet, to a new business, athenaHealth, that would help physicians manage their practice, billing, and revenue cycles and maintain electronic patient records more efficiently and cost effectively using the service delivered via the Internet.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
706-714 Abstract Background: The increased focus on quality and efficiency improvement within academic surgery has met with variable success among plastic surgeons. Traditional surgical performance metrics, such as morbidity and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008
department stores and a new hypermarket—Nagesh was proud of the way the company had taken retail from its roots in simple transactions to a complete "experience" defined by the luxurious ambiance, food, events and educated staff in SSG's retail outlets... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
struggling. A new superintendent who is well-known and respected in education reform circles arrived this [past] school year. He asked Sarah and Matt to expand their strategy to assist him in building the success of traditional schools as... View Details
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
set to become the highest grossing film ever in the U.S. and earn over $2 billion worldwide. Frozen had just surpassed $1 billion in box office to become Disney animation’s biggest success ever. In live action movies, Disney franchises,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/916044-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-003 Jibo: A Social Robot for the Home In January 2015, Jibo Inc. had completed a raise of $25.3 million in Series A financing after a successful 2014... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
three-part interview with Harvard Business School Marketing professors Rajiv Lal and José B. Alvarez, they discuss who is winning this revolution and which brands appear to be losing ground. Sean Silverthorne: Among the retailers you have found to be most View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
portable, but with inferior performance characteristics, the Montague folding bicycle has the look, feel, and performance of a standard bicycle. However, while the firm has experienced notable success since its founding, it has yet to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
Administration after World War II. This episode illustrates the increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business education and the growing appeal of "scientific" approaches to... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
Lehman Brothers Harvard Business School Case 409-042 Explores how two senior Wall St. executives created a successful commercial opportunity for Lehman Brothers that focused on building relationships with minority- and women-owned... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
mixed effectiveness, as people who deliver backhanded compliments erroneously believe that they will both convey high status and elicit liking (Studies 2a-2b), but recipients and third-party evaluators grant them neither (Studies 3a-3b); however, backhanded compliments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
governments had tried to address them. So a congressional panel overlooking the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) called him to report on what successful regulatory reform might look like. “Responding to this request, I took a close... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in research and development (R&D) can have quite divergent, but predictably divergent, future paths. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
orientation from marketing. The model has been used to analyze firm performance in business-to-business markets in a number of countries in the industrial and the industrializing worlds. In general, successful firms are found to be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
open platforms and then provide a brief history of open digital platforms. I go on to argue that the success of open platforms in competition with vertically integrated firms gave rise to the “vertical-to-horizontal” transition in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015
1970s–1990s era such as Hanson and BTR were also quite financially successful forms of business enterprise. The demise of many of them appears to owe at least as much to management fads as to serious financial underperformance. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
Pfizer, as well as nonprofits and international government agencies, the authors show how successful leaders of innovation don't create a vision and try to make innovation happen themselves. Rather, they create and sustain a culture where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne