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- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
of Earnings-per-share Harvard Business School Note 208-059 When discussing the pros and cons of an acquisition, practitioners often talk about the impact of the deal on the buyer's earnings-per-share (eps). An acquisition is said to be "accretive" if the...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will...
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- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
response, Beijing Hualian developed a new "Family Store" format targeted at the nation's growing middle class, made up of younger consumers with more fashionable tastes. Like hypermarkets, Hualian Family Stores include both food...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
league—began to play without fans in the stands. Outside, that is, of some cardboard facsimiles of fans that were purchased as part of a pandemic relief program. It’s an imperfect—albeit necessary—set up for fans. And Ruggiero, who is a...
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- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
disposables and extended-wear lenses, and two involved new manufacturing processes. In a controversial but necessary move, he canceled dozens of small R&D initiatives for conventional lenses to free up cash for the breakthrough...
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- 16 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Shekeyla Caldwell Sandore: Why 'A Name Like Mine' Matters
intended. And that's really special. I feel very strongly about this topic. There are so many different aspects of identity that are difficult to bring up and talk about honestly, especially if you're not the one holding power. If you...
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- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
that their jobs routinely require them to stay late at the office, but when you press them, they admit that isn't true. Some occasional emergencies need to take precedence over everything else, but unless you work in a hospital, those situations are rare. Even if you...
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by Deborah Blagg
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
the Cemex Way, a set of "best practice" principles and processes developed over the years to help people succeed in the Cemex family, the company disseminated its culture across its increasingly far-flung global network....
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
an HBS MBA myself (Class of 1976), and when I came to HBS I enrolled in an MBA/Doctoral program. But I had only worked in nonprofit organizations before school, so I left for what I thought would be a short stint in business before returning to my doctoral studies....
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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (iii) a coordination problem (lacking perfect foresight, it is unlikely that users will end View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
dots of these disparate actors. Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong by Neil Monnery (MBA 1987) London Publishing Partnership In the fifty years from the end of the Second World War to its handover...
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- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering (IPO), I differentiate between those that have private equity sponsorship (PE-backed firms) and those that do not (non-PE-backed firms). The...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
adjusts the policy rate slowly in response to changes in its privately observed target. Such gradualism reflects an attempt to not spook the bond market. However, this effort ends up being thwarted in equilibrium, as long-term rates...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
the first Academy Award® in that category for Walt Disney Animation Studios. In late March 2014, Frozen became the highest-grossing animated feature, worldwide, of all time. There was a period in the history of the 90-year-old studio, not so many View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
of ironclad deadlines and word length. The result was a classic love-hate relationship. “While in the MBA Program, students tend to dislike report writing,” the Bulletin noted in 1978. “As alumni five or more years out of the School, the...
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Garry Emmons
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Next, I show that large employers are less likely to face an SEC enforcement action in presidential election years if they are headquartered in politically important states. I also find that firms that employ a larger proportion of a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
paper. One was a scene that Homer saw on a visit to Boston, his hometown. His illustration shows a crowd of abolitionists on the brink of eviction from a church; at their front is Frederick Douglass, declaring “the freedom of all mankind.” Homer, born into the Panic of...
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- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608053 Dell Computers (B): The Transition Harvard Business School Supplement 607-081 The case presents the outcome of the (A) case and explores challenges in the PC industry View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements....
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
getting ready to tour in New York City and perform at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store, go to South by Southwest. This year I was invited to be a TED Fellow in the class of 2020 and speak on the TED mainstage in Vancouver, which happens in...
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