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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
firms are the management arsenals of many public companies — strategic due diligence, blueprints for action, tying compensation to performance — but they are not applied with sufficient consistency, rigor, or thoroughness. In short, what... View Details
- 01 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 1, 2006
twenty-first century—race. As contributors to this volume, we were asked to focus on the relationship between race and mentoring. What do we learn about this important developmental relationship by examining the research on race and mentoring? Like DuBois, we believe... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
movement, in the mid-1970s Robinson was a strategic financial manager for General Foods' (GF) domestic grocery products. After scanning a decade's worth of data and analyzing GF's investments in new product development, Robinson says he... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
instance, is a tool that people can use to analyze their industries. A tool has no value on its own, it’s how we use it that gives it value. But the tool cannot be blamed for anything!” — Costas Markides Robert P. Bauman Professor of View Details
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Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993) - Recruiting
to broaden my business knowledge and strengthen my skills, particularly in marketing and branding. Coming from a liberal arts undergraduate background with limited exposure to business, I began my career as an Associate Consultant at one of the Big Four accounting... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
contingent claims analysis (CCA). We illustrate how to use the CCA approach to model and measure sectoral and national risk exposures, and analyze policies to offset their potentially harmful effects. This new framework provides economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
research plus their own wealth of practical and academic experience to examine the unique challenges of leadership in professional service firms. The result of what may be the first-ever collaboration between an HBS faculty author and a CEO alumnus, Aligning the Stars... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
and complementary effects across channels to provide sales forecasting, promotion planning, and customer relationship management guidance to multichannel managers. We investigate three contingencies in a sales analysis of a leading U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
the point that given the rarity of the strategic approaches to resource allocation, district leaders need more guidance and tools to help them make better decisions and manage the consequences, particularly when they are under enormous... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
writes for the Atlantic . Sarah Kaplan Sarah Kaplan is Distinguished Professor, Director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE), and Professor of Strategic Management, at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of... View Details
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
emerges from our analysis is to find an experienced (and successful) partner! Given the very difficult investment conditions, venture investors are paring back their portfolios and are hesitant to make new commitments. To get serious... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
media content. Raises issues of how technology interacts with creative processes and outcome possibilities, and also invites discussion of strategic and organizational questions raised by the very different business models of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
economy and the history of ideas. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53906 2017 Advances in Strategic Management Capturing Value from Intellectual Property (IP) in a Global Environment By: Alcácer, Juan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
May 2017 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We build on the analysis in Akcigit, Grigsby, and Nicholas (2017) by using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
Gap stores and 155 Gap Outlet stores revealed that these labels increased sales by 8 percent among female shoppers in the retail stores. Among male retail shoppers and all Gap Outlet store shoppers, however, the labels had no discernable effect. Conducting A Scenario... View Details
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Amanda Pratt
Analysis and Valuation. "It builds on the finance and strategy classes you have in your RC year," she explains. "But now you look at how companies' financial structures and business strategies work together, and how they... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
an engaged workforce and a strong capacity for change. Turco was embedded within TechCo for ten months, and this book is her ethnographic analysis of what worked at the company and what didn’t. China’s Next View Details
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
research and discuss his contributions to management and economics. We look at three distinct bodies of work. In the first, Clark (in conjunction with Robert Hayes and Steven Wheelwright) argued that the abandonment by U.S. managers of manufacturing as a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
isolation is of great interest, we believe that the analysis of interactions between business models can highlight important hidden insights. In this paper, for example, we show that contrary to the popular view, p2p and iTunes can... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
securities to retail investors. We focus on a large market of investment products targeted exclusively at households: retail-structured products in Europe. We hypothesize that banks strategically use product complexity to cater to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel