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19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

to outside obligations should be as important to those at the organization's highest levels as it is to middle managers. Q: We often find that work obligations overwhelm our best intentions when it comes to spending time with family. How... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

21 Sep 2016
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Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

think? Deshpandé: She made an impact on her industry in terms of being able to be successful in both parallel and mainstream cinema. These are two different audiences, an upper middle class intelligentsia through parallel, and a View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video

14 Oct 2013
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Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works

makes huge investments to acquire, develop, and market concepts with strong hit potential, and then banks on the sales of those titles to make up for the middling performance of their other content. Today's leading film studios,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

18 Apr 2012
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HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

water management technologies because they were aware of its weaknesses. "The basic problem from the farmers' point of view is that the water is in the wrong place at the wrong time," said Reinhardt. It's also one of the reasons... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

April 2023 (Revised April 2024)
Teaching Note

Netflix's Culture: Binge or Cringe?

By: Hubert Joly, Leonard A. Schlesinger, James Barnett and Stacy Straaberg

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 522-096. View Details

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21 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

1998 as part of its management of an apparently ongoing crisis. The reaction of the international financial community—and some of my students—was severe. The capital controls were labeled "unorthodox" and "heretical,"... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

10 Mar 2002
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Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

Watkins The best negotiators also work to foster organizational learning, both during and after a negotiation. They pay careful attention to managing the team learning process, establishing clear roles and responsibilities for observation... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

14 Apr 2015
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collection of innovative research and management insights that build upon the foundations of the first book but takes the study of brand relationships outside of traditional realms by applying new theoretical frameworks and considering... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016

the complex regulatory environment that governs Indian gaming. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51932 Fall 2016 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management The Impact of Supplier Inventory Service... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

Harvard Business Review Planned Opportunism: Using Weak Signals to Spur Innovations By: Govindarajan, Vijay Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51052 forthcoming Strategic View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

April 2024 (Revised July 2024)
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Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Joseph L. Badaracco, Tom Quinn and John Schultz

Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk was owned by a charitable foundation, and since its founding in the 1920s had focused on producing insulin to treat diabetes. In 2017, however, it released Ozempic, a diabetes treatment with the revolutionary side effect of... View Details

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23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

percent of high school students have tried them, according to the Centers for Disease Control, and a growing percentage of middle school students are joining the list. In 2012, Goldman Sachs declared electronic cigarettes one of the top... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

10 Mar 2015
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The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

of consumers are more than willing to pay for convenience. Second, the bifurcation of income in the US will accelerate and lead to an even greater need for supermarkets to provide value. Supermarkets have long relied on a high-volume, low-margin model, and the large,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

12 Nov 2018
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'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

biggest variety in solutions, ranging from very good to very bad, but with a low average quality. Those theories were borne out. Rather than falling somewhere in the middle of those results, the intermittent groups combined the benefits... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

managers publicly acknowledge the need to explore new businesses and markets, the claims of established businesses on company resources almost always come first, especially when times are hard. When top teams allow the tension between... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2010
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The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

reward their own drives." Inspired by the writings and insights of Charles Darwin, specifically his 1871 masterwork The Descent of Man, Lawrence's new book, Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership, offers managers an... View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

and Middle Eastern states, including Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, Romania, Saudi Arabia and Syria. The issue is that this literature has focused heavily on broad macro-economic trends and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

and resource-efficient development with the use of information and communication technologies to better manage complex urban systems. Book: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415893169/ Integrated Reporting Requires Integrated... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Sep 2014
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Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

"Delivering phone books is the worst way to spend a Sunday when you're a kid," says Olds, now an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurship Management unit at Harvard Business School. The family lived paycheck to paycheck. And... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet... View Details

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How to be Extremely Productive

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

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HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

Netflix's Culture: Binge or Cringe?

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

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Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

First Look: June 14

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

First Look: April 24

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

March 15, 2016

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