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  • February 2010
  • Teaching Note

Saffronart.com: Bidding for Success (TN)

By: Mukti Khaire
Teaching Note for [808027]. View Details
Keywords: Auctions; Arts; Innovation and Invention; Internet and the Web; Revenue; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Risk and Uncertainty; Web Services Industry; Fine Arts Industry; India
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  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

that aims to explain what determines country risk (defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk-free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

Chairman and CEO, Emeritus. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910419-PDF-ENG Colombia: Strong Fundamentals, Global Risk Aldo Musacchio, Richard H. K. Vietor, Jonathan Schlefer, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

target school children most at risk for parasitic worm infection. One week after its launch, the program seemed to be going well, but Ndanyi and Levy knew that it still needed to be administered in almost 40... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

and practices, or to product developments in complementary industries."14 However, another leading strategist, Igor Ansoff, argued that Levitt was asking companies to take unnecessary risks by investing... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

observed variation in payout patterns over time than the traditional motives. The most recent evidence suggests that further insights can be gained from viewing payout decisions as an integral part of a firm's larger financial ecosystem, with important implications for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

trust was no doubt engendered in an earlier day when defined benefit (DB) pension plans were offered by lifelong employers like IBM and General Motors. Today, that system is all but extinct. Merton explains that employers underestimated... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

be managed effectively on a continuing basis. As Richard Eckel put it, "'Disruptive' is the clue for why the proposed method of sustained growth will fail in most organizations ... B-schools graduate and laud those who are View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

  Publications June 2015 Review of Accounting Studies Speaking of the Short-Term: Disclosure Horizon and Managerial Myopia By: Brochet, Francois, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract—We study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2014
  • Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

Editor's Note. Given a veritable flood over the last year of corporate "inversions"—US companies that reincoporate in other countries to take advantage of favorable tax rates and business regulations—lawmakers in Washington D.C.... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical
  • February 1999 (Revised November 1999)
  • Case

Hewlett-Packard's Merced Decision

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Matt Verlinden
Describes managing the threat of disruptive technology at the high end of the computer industry. Many aspects of the innovator's dilemma can be explored. View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Risk Management; Disruptive Innovation; Computer Industry; United States
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  • 27 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 27

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312029-PDF-ENG Willy Jacobsohn and Beiersdorf: Managing Expropriation and Anti-Semitism Geoffrey G. Jones and Christina... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

than forty high-profile moves and interviewed team leaders in multiple industries and countries to examine the risks and opportunities that lift... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

often sought some equity in mining and other foreign investment projects, but as shareholders they have rarely gained what they anticipated. Only in special cases might the benefits to governments outweigh the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

risk his life and that of other soldiers to reenter a home rigged with an explosive to save three Iraqis. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311085-PDF-ENG Joe Gifford in Tal Afar, Iraq... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 28

leaving questions about future procurement. Finally, Amul's farmers form a large vote bank in the state of Gujarat, and its cooperative structure risks being compromised by vested political interests. Should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

"Humans have evolved a leadership brain," says HBS professor emeritus Paul R. Lawrence. "Good leaders are people with a conscience who respect and reward all the four drives of other stakeholders [the drive to acquire, to... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

autonomy among employees. Reduced autonomy on the job may lead to lower well-being. One of the challenges for leaders working in the virtual world is to learn to trust and delegate work to employees and not... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

managers should reconsider whether a permanent move to remote work is such a good idea. It risks taking us from the coronavirus pandemic to a loneliness pandemic, with potentially terrible costs. Pre-pandemic research View Details
Keywords: All Industries