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- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/218001-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-012 Turkish Economy Bank and Fortis Bank: Managing a Complex Merger Following the announcement of the merger of the Turkish Economic Bank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Internalization of advertising services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated and varies widely across industries. To explain this variation, we draw on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
Reviewing a spectacular business failure, we often wonder why the CEO didn't see trouble coming. It was so obvious. Why didn't Digital Equipment Corp. CEO Kenneth Olsen see the PC as a threat to minicomputers? Did Coca-Cola's Roberto... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
company. Digitizing Disclosure: The Case of Restaurant Hygiene Scores By: Dai, Weijia (Daisy), and Michael Luca Abstract— Collaborating with Yelp and the city of San Francisco, we revisit a canonical example of quality disclosure by... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Consequently, there is a negative effect of leader power on team performance. Three studies find consistent support for this argument. The implications for theory and practice are discussed. South Sudan: The Birth of an Economy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008
Working PapersAccountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China Authors:Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky, and Yu Zheng Abstract Over the past two decades, no two economies have averaged more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
would be stadium seating, but that's about it. It's remarkable. And not in a good way." Lopez, it seems, is just getting warmed up. "Can you imagine driving the same car in 2010 that you drove in 1977, with the same features? There's almost nothing in the 2010 consumer... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408095 Big Spaceship: Ready to Go Big? Harvard Business School Case 409-047 Big Spaceship, a digital marketing agency, faced a rather big challenge: How to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
PublicationsThe Profits of Power: Commerce and Realpolitik in Eurasia Authors:Rawi Abdelal Publication:Review of International Political Economy (forthcoming) Abstract Although the energy trade is the single most important element of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
power of the social network. In the B2C option, mixi would become a portal for on-line shopping for both digital content and tangible goods and charge the business sellers a fee. In the C2C option, mixi would facilitate exchanges between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
healthcare spending in 2015 and 2020, especially for expenditures on prescription drugs in nominal terms and as a percentage of overall health spending. The article concludes with a discussion of the political economy of insurance and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
technologically innovative company away from specialty glass, television tubes, and fiberglass production into newer, faster-growing profit-making areas. At the time, the economy is plagued by recession, worker morale is flagging, and the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 510-063 In January 2010, Jen McDonald, head of Bank of America Corporation's (BAC) Digital Marketing group, was discussing the bank's mobile strategy with Douglas Brown, senior vice president,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
to do something different to get it to happen. Q: What connections did the students make to business? A: One of the characteristics of what we call creative economy firms—design firms, media firms, etc.—which is uncomfortable for many... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
which is a pretty incredible 10-year journey. Flint: What was the vision at the outset? Zatlyn: Well if you read the first sentence of our business plan competition that we had to write: Cloudflare is a service that will accelerate internet properties or View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Rob Ristagno (MBA 2005) Independently published Ristagno guides you step-by-step through the five forces of dramatic online revenue growth and shows why it is vital to identify your very best customers and focus relentlessly on their wants and needs. View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
and to avoid the larger economies of Spain and Italy becoming involved. The European financial system became strained. Banks were found to be undercapitalized and began to ration credit to the economy. The European Central Bank intervened... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract— We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in six countries parsing granular CEO diary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make a profit, we produced cars in small batches,... View Details