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- 07 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark
quick to speak and more inclined to listen. In many ways, I'm more confident about grasping situations but also a lot more aware of my own limitations. I've learned to multitask and compartmentalize, to leave work at the office, to put a... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
confident of the market potential for mobile payments, they recognized the challenges they faced in scaling their current business model. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811029-PDF-ENG Office of Technology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
firm was confident that it and the current management could work together to revamp the fortunes of China's leading electronic retailer. However, it did not anticipate the power Huang had behind bars. As the majority shareholder, Huang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
patients' compliance, and 32 percent agreeing that it made patients less confident in their doctors' judgment. Q: Marketing pharmaceutical products directly to consumers is often referred to as patient or consumer "education."... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
programming decisions and setting advertising rates? Nielsen had become the gold standard in the broadcast industry and felt confident in their data. Could Bluefin's system provide new insights to marketers and broadcasters? Or would it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
Harvard's Center for International Development, has confidence that Liberia has the ability to strike a balance between growth and stability. Among the strengths working in its favor, he says, are transparency and macroeconomic stability.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
elsewhere. Thirdly, foreign firms during the post-war decades lived in awe of the alleged superiority of U.S. managers, and it was not until the 1980s that European firms began to feel sufficiently confident to intervene and take greater... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
offers consumers an extra benefit: online payments tend to create records documenting the fact of a customer's purchase; consumers of free content may feel more confident that their purchases will remain confidential. More broadly,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
financial planners they studied said they ended a relationship with a client after the client ignored their advice. Experts often gain status, power, and confidence from having a certain level of expertise, so when their advice is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
lowering his revenues. He has to decide how to manage his banking relationships, the caliber of staff he needs, and react to the declining revenue while maintaining the confidence of his board. About to break bank covenants, Peter Jepsen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
the confidence and skill to analyze the viability of innovations in terms of their technological, public policy, and structural impact and to have a sure sense of the mood of consumers who, all over the world, are deeply interested in... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
of what it takes to launch the business? Do women invest less because they lack confidence in their businesses or the size of the opportunities? Do they have reservations about their ability to see the venture through hard times? Is their... View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
barriers to commercialization? What made Du Pont so confident that it could succeed at this uncertain time? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810084-PDF-ENG New York Life and Immediate Annuities Julio J. Rotemberg... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
explain what they were doing under the 1991 statute. To hold senior government officials accountable for all bailouts, Congress should extend the 1991 statute to any type of financial institution. Q: How has Congress tried to restore View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
early low-pressure meetings for one consulting team, all members asked the customer-expert—a relatively junior member of the team—for input; in turn, he behaved confidently and often successfully challenged the team leader's ideas. As the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
findings are consistent with capital markets interpreting the choice of purchase accounting as a signal of management's confidence in the likelihood of a successful merger. This signal is particularly relevant when corporate governance is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
primary market for collectors is to discover a diamond in the rough," Khaire said. "But as a collector, you have to be much more confident about your ability to judge art if you want to do it as an investment, even in the case... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
e-commerce is really about," said Job, "is reducing the gap between thought and action, between when you know something and when you do something about it." Third, he said, is a relevant brand that gives people confidence... View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
hypothesis in a lab setting that involved recalling the Ten Commandments, and then performed a similar ethical field study at an insurance company, where they successfully replicated the findings they saw in the lab. "This was nice, since it gave us View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
School Exercise 509-022 This exercise is meant to assess students' level of confidence around everyday business and general knowledge questions, for the purpose of identifying where they are overconfident and underconfident. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace