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  • 29 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 29

processes that enable such a resolution, have been proposed in various literatures. Attempting to synthesize relevant works on pluralistic control and collaborative heterarchies, this paper proposes the foundations of what might be called... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Books

Objectives in Unpredictable Times studiously avoids a discussion of what the authors call “the S-word” — strategy. Instead, the book offers “a no-excuses, in-the-trenches perspective” that lets managers take existing realities and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 4

While analyzing one deal requires a familiar conceptual framework, doing the same for a broader "negotiation campaign" calls for a different focus and set of concepts: how to orchestrate a large number of subsidiary deals, often... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Not to Trust Your Gut

University have distinguished between what they call System 1 and System 2 thought. System 1 thought describes our intuition: quick, automatic, effortless, and influenced by emotion. By comparison, System 2 thought is slower, more... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

by Roger Thompson A spate of business scandals — from Enron’s spectacular collapse to stock option backdating — have put business schools on the spot to explain what, if any, responsibility they might have for what’s gone wrong in... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

which interventions had staying power. Focusing too much on “what” instead of “why.” Companies often set out to test a particular question or compare a short slate of options with the goal of finding what works best with customers.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

corporations back off and issue short-term instead. We called this "gap-filling," in the sense that firms fill in the gaps created by government financing policy. In that paper, we had thought about government maturity policy as... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services
  • 06 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

When Product Variety Backfires

night, another to be taken during the day. You are suffering and you just want to feel better, but you have to pick and choose what symptoms you have and don't have. We call this "overchoice." Q: Could you provide some... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin; Consumer Products
  • 09 Apr 2025
  • News

The Working Parent Revolution

that your survey found that 70% of working parents call work-life balance a "non-negotiable" when they're job hunting. So are you seeing businesses respond to the pressure that their employees are feeling? SK: We are. I think that... View Details
  • 21 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

mature industries, such as Swiss watchmakers and pencil makers, that have been able to reinvent themselves in the wake of radical technological change. He calls this phenomenon “technology reemergence.” Over the past eight years, he has... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 20 Feb 2020
  • Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology

communication – how that happens is up to you.” At HBS, our recruiting options are purposely flexible allowing you to use our scheduling tools for informal conversations and interviews around student class time, or post links to videos or... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 20 Jan 2022
  • Blog Post

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability

accepted a role at battery startup called Natron Energy. My summer at Natron Energy taught me a lot about the assumptions I had made about myself and my career journey. I thought that I had found the perfect fit because the role checked a... View Details
  • Web

Impact Stories - Business & Environment

those more broad-based societal issues. And I concluded that climate change is, in fact, the single biggest challenge that we face as humanity." Natalie Jackson MBA 2021 | A Full Menu of Options "I attended HBS to pursue food systems... View Details
  • 21 Mar 2016
  • HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

the case about the trustworthiness of online reviews. It’s remarkable that 85 percent or so of people would make a purchase after reading online reviews. A: Yes. It turns out that if you think about it from a consumer standpoint: what are the available View Details
Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel
  • 02 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

us to believe that we are at an inflection point is demographics. You have this new generation of digital natives who are used to operating online. Their default option for shopping is through a digital interface. These consumers do not... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 09 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 9

uncertainty under cap-and-trade will erode value. We further show that two operational drivers underlie this result: i) the firm's option not to operate, which effectively right-censors the uncertain emissions price and ii) dispatch... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

issues presented in the (B) case. The students are given context to discuss how this situation could have been prevented. Purchase this supplement: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110034-PDF-ENG Scooter Lindley: The Formation Call... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

the high $60 million range. The sell-side team, comprised of bankers from the Blackstone Group and Greenhill, and lawyers from Wachtell Lipton and Kirkland & Ellis, is forced to regroup and reconsider their options for galvanizing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

Hi-R-Me: Making Sales Calls This case study focuses on a professional services firm (“Performance Improvement Consulting”) and its sales calls on Hi-R-Me, a potential client. The case is supplemented by... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

significantly increased the returns on capital. However, contrary to what economic theory might lead us to expect, the cost of capital as measured by long-term real interest rates has not increased, but actually fallen. We call this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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