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- 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016
Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/116036-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-037 Astroscale, Space Debris, and Earth's Orbital Commons An engineer and technology entrepreneur, Nobu Okada, had turned a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
19, 2014). To avoid escalation, diplomats will likely plead for more time. Granting a six-month extension, an option already built into the current process, could easily become a pattern, turning some version of the interim deal into a de... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
are so interested in health care. Not just at HBS but all around the country, schools of management are turning operational management attention to these kinds of questions, and that's fantastic. A whole lot of people are thinking about... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
bulb wasn't invented by candlelight. It turns out we're going to need carbon to build green energy plants, right? And so we have to have a just transition that is rational and not emotional and where everyone has a role to play. So I... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
the time. I had just come off of two years in investment banking. I had always been fairly active in terms of exercise and running. In fact, I was training for a couple half marathons, which soon turned into marathon training at the time.... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
we don't take care of this planet, the planet can't take care of us. I think there are two lessons from that. The first one is, take time for reflection. As leaders, we are so busy and we have so many responsibilities. It is hard and it's often, not common to View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
firm. But when her father fell ill in 1986, the Brownells decided to return to Detroit to help with the family enterprise founded by her great-grandfather. As things turned out, Brownell’s father recovered and was able to continue with... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
neither of them were successful in getting their dissertation articles published. We also asked them to reflect on the twists and turns of academic publishing, and we asked Max Bazerman to integrate these reflections. Together, we hope to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
strategy formulation and implementation. In some sense, the paper explains why strategy is the quintessential responsibility of the CEO. Moreover, it shows that the optimal strategy should depend on who is CEO. It then turns that question... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
money would he need to raise to get OPM through the next twelve months, and what could he change now to fix his company for the long term? Owen's thoughts also turned to the conversation he had last month with two Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
so difficult that they often failed to perform them effectively. When we turned to the academic research, we found a fair amount of research on what victims need when they're on the receiving end. But little attention had been devoted to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
to take the information revolution very seriously. Echoing Rudenstine's re-marks on the aptness of the word "revolution," McFarlan declared, "The changes are that fundamental and dramatic. Products, services, and industry structures are being View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
thought that their technical knowledge of best manufacturing practices (to take one example) was sufficiently developed that processes simply needed to be tweaked to fit local conditions. More often, it turns out, they have to be reworked... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
The idea of attacking core memory in mainframe computers with the 1103 DRAM proved a winner because, despite this product’s problems, it was far more economical to use than the existing alternative. When Intel turned a profit and went... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
firms, less strongly across firms, and often violated in community-based development settings. The exceptions in turn were of two types: In four cases, closely collaborating teams within single firms created modular systems comprised of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
markets allow the backward linkages between foreign and domestic firms to turn into FDI spillovers. Our calibration exercises indicate that a) holding the extent of foreign presence constant, financially well-developed economies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
you know, what kind of comp plan are you using? Or different things like that. And so we grew to love each other. Because each one of us had their turn in the barrel. DM: You know, you mentioned by the end of your tenure at GE that you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
itself. Viana sensed that the workers, and brand, enjoyed broad-based public support. So he turned to crowdfunding, still a relatively unfamiliar concept in France, posting his cause on the site Bulb in Town and cross- promoting his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Photographs by Christopher Brown/Redux Pro Not even a nighttime arrival in Mumbai, India’s bustling commercial capital of nearly 13 million people, can mask the collision of old and new that now grips the world’s largest democracy. Planes circle the airport, each... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to dispatch inspectors, which in turn limits the number of inspections that can be performed. We argue that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne