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- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
fall of 2011. It was slowly revealed that the 92-year-old camera and medical photo-imaging company, Olympus, had been hiding its losses for more than a decade-to the tune of $1.7 billion-long before the current economic pressures, slow job growth, and poor investor...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
him an encouraging note, sought him out for conversations before and after classes throughout the semester, and in Porter's words, instilled in him "an incredible desire to excel—to reach the kind of confidence and the standard"...
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- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
from the United Kingdom and Hong Kong partnered with public universities to form joint-ventured "independent colleges." Buoyed by the success of XAIU, Huang was confident that despite these setbacks, his franchise model would...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
it, "We cannot look at investor losses as the only benchmark to evaluate the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley. One must also consider the cost of capital if confidence in the markets does not return
Unfortunately, you cannot legislate...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
can state confidently that cancer is the most expensive disease to treat. Cancer patients and survivors account for about 0.5 percent of the US population, and about 6 percent of the nation's health care expenditures. He's aware that 46...
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- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
such a context is a very difficult balance to strike for any company. During our interviews for the case, Jerome Schmitt, Total's head of IR, told us: "We want to be confident with analysts and the financial community and say, 'Look...
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- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
What gave investors the confidence to risk their money? In a recent monograph, Musacchio reports that Brazilian companies were transparent about their operations, including the disclosure of executive compensation—something not even done...
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- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
nervous. Several days before the Biotechnology Industry Organization's (BIO) annual conference convened this past March in Boston, opponents held their own forum of seminars and talks under the banner of BioDevastation 2000. Obviously, advances in biotechnology are not...
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- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Most Successful CEOs Come from Within By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
2004, DaVita acquired arch-rival Gambro Healthcare, whose 12,000 employees would nearly double DaVita in size once the integration is completed in fall 2005. Confident that the deal makes business sense but worried about potential adverse...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
burdening the taxpayer? That's the question." Investment Banking Faces A Crisis Of Confidence Senior lecturer Clayton Rose shared insights on the turmoil gained in part from his experience at JP Morgan & Company for 20 years,...
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- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
spending and confidence as well as new competitive forces on Starbucks' transformation. The case concludes by examining Schultz's own leadership journey, the lessons he learned personally during Starbucks transformation, and how he is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
that confidence in your proposal dies. Fearmongering: Critics catalyze irrational anxieties about your idea. Character assassination: They slam your reputation and credibility. Smart, practical, and filled with useful advice, Buy-In...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
investors; they evolved toward more friendly approaches. Many countries created new incentives for investors and built investment promotion agencies to attract new companies. The causes were several: Better educated and more experienced officials had View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
received theory; and/or (3) reinforce the findings of more systematic investigations, giving greater confidence in their validity. Learning from such accounts calls for a "Bayesian" mindset, in which a given case study, of the...
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- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
to defeat preconceptions so they didn't fall into any rote pattern. They made fresh choices that they were completely prepared to make. If players were truly experiencing the music anew, they wouldn't be confident enough to make skillful...
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- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
consumer electronics company. The portfolio company was exceeding key financial targets and Berkshire Partners was confident that it would be another successful investment. Holmes' management team then suggested acquiring a kitchen...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
regulation as a general theory of politics. George Stigler himself claimed that "temporary accidents aside," exceptions "simply will not arise: our extensive experience with the general theory in economics gives us the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Downsizing? By: Cohen, Lauren, Joshua D. Coval, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—While we commend the initiative of Snyder and Welch (2017), we lay out in this short reply why we remain highly confident in our results and our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
Experiments 1A and 1B found that advice influenced participants more when they thought it came from an algorithm than when they thought it came from other people. This effect was robust to presenting the advisor jointly or separately (Experiment 2). Experiment 3 tested...
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