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- 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27
Sourav Bhattacharya Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract While many theories of the firm seek to explain when firms make rather than buy, in practice, firms often make and buy the same input-they engage in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
earnings quality than those that do not have PE sponsorship, engage less in earnings management and report more conservatively both before and after the IPO. Further, PE-backed firms that are majority-owned by PE sponsors exhibit superior... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
in two major product lines for a large enterprise software vendor to examine the use and success of pricing and product strategies. Regarding pricing, the paper demonstrates that the vendor engages in significant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
by reviewing your own assumptions. One of the managers acknowledged, for example, that doubts voiced by an outsider could help people close to projects—who are often conditioned to be optimistic and think in terms of being successful—to take a step back and View Details
- 30 Jul 2025
- News
Play with Purpose
the Sixers for $280 million. And then we basically engaged with the city, improved the team, improved the business, improved their fan experience. And now I think we were in the high twenties out of 30 NBA teams in revenues per game, now... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
coast. While the First Nations played host and watched, they weren’t involved in the initial negotiations. Instead, they asked the provincial government to figure out a proposal with the other stakeholders, and then negotiate the final deal with them—showing First... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
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podcast. These speeches can be done in your native language . Credit requires submitting a 30 second video of speaking engagement and a reflection on lessons learned. 2) Feedback/Reflection meeting (after Speech 1): Watch video of your... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
is very deep and wide in our society, for better or worse. The other reason to be engaged in it is we haven't looked at it seriously for 30 years. It's something that touches every aspect of social policy. It's a much broader and deeper... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
marketing as a promising promotion tool for advertisers to reach and engage with consumers cheaply and quickly via word-of-mouth. Mekanism's president is contemplating expanding its services to other advertising content and media (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
online-first and traditional retailers alike. We focus on the relatively understudied domain of online-first retailers and the engagement of a key omnichannel tactic; specifically, the introduction of showrooms (physical locations where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
engaging in real earnings management and suggest the effects on subsequent reporting periods and competitor behavior are greater than previously documented. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-073.pdf Negotiating the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
choosing articles and writing context-setting essays to situate and engage readers. I greatly enjoyed playing the role of narrator, distilling biography and social, economic, cultural, and business history. The book is rich with... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
value would necessarily trump another, and any decision would have to be evaluated by taking all such values into account and balancing them against each other. Once there is a consensus on which values are important, future business leaders need to be taught how to... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
brings poetry to corporations such as Merck and Procter & Gamble to stir creativity by helping employees bridge their analytical and artistic sides. Such efforts are designed to reach employees at a deeper level. By engaging more of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
levels—whether in a strategic planning meeting, or in Salzwedel's recent visit to a regional office to explain in person the content of and motivation for the company's new strategic plan. Anderson and Salzwedel were pleased that the just-ended meeting exhibited the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
didn't have a chance to say goodbye. She'd had a heart attack and died. But when I recovered from her death I fell in love with a woman from Georgia and I got engaged to be married, and she started having some headaches in the summer, but... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
his leave of absence from the School. As the date of departure had approached, however, he and Hincks reconciled. They were now engaged to be married, and Moore had begun to worry about a future beyond mountaineering. Hincks was not on... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
markets, do managers have responsibilities to the system itself? If they do, should these responsibilities shape their behavior when they are engaging in the political process in an attempt to structure the institutions of capitalism? The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
infringement and support small inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations without View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel