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- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
enough to be able to make a gift for their endowment, so they can accept qualified students without regard to the size of their pocketbooks.” Five years ago he returned to the helm of Bloomberg LP. He donates all profits from his share of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
accounted for $124 billion corporate assets filing for Chapter 11, including CIT Group, Six Flags, Lear Corp., and Charter Communications," Gilson writes.) In a prenegotiated Chapter 11, firms don't formally solicit votes but rather... View Details
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
susceptibility to competition. How to repair the rift? Two HBS faculty developed a CD-based program called Measuring Marketing Performance targeted at senior executives—namely CEOs, COOs, and CMOs. The tutorial helps execs understand how the customer base is segmented,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
number of US organizations with over a hundred employees is well over a hundred thousand. In the year 1900, the number of firms that did business around the world, on all continents, was very close to zero. Today the number is so large it... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- Web
Judging | New Venture Competition
capital firms in the US. Also included are some of the most successful Harvard Business School (HBS) entrepreneurs from top companies. Criteria Judging criteria is focused on Customer Value Proposition which includes View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
Statistics Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints By: Garicano, Luis, and Claudia Steinwender Abstract—We introduce a novel empirical strategy to measure the size of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
or form networks. Firms make complementary choices when determining production inputs, entering related markets, and strategic mergers. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/banand/ComplementaryChoices.pdf August 2013 Relations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
can use judo strategy to threaten an entrenched giant such as Microsoft, Microsoft's eventual success in the Internet "browser wars" shows that large, established companies can use these precepts effectively as well. According to the first principle of judo strategy,... View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Washington. With Gratitude: Barker Steel and the People Who Made It Work by Robert B. Brack (OPM 2, 1977) ArchwayPublishing When Robert Brack returned to Barker Steel Co. (the business started by his grandfather in 1920) several years after college, the View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
that using the judo strategy approach allows small, agile start-ups to turn an opponent's size into a disadvantage. The closing presentation was delivered by Senior Research Fellow and Director of the HBS Life Sciences Project Juan... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
The unparalleled size of Asia's markets has always caught the eye of multinational corporations. More recently, as government policies and cultural attitudes in the region continue to evolve, the strategies of multinational companies have... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
April 2016 Review of Economic Studies Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring By: Stanton, Christopher, and Catherine Thomas Abstract—Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
helped me realize that I will actually have considerable input in deciding which projects I join and how much I travel. Moreover, I realized that working at an MBB firm would satisfy criteria #2-5, but I still wanted to ensure that it... View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709043 One Firm One Future at Davis Langdon Harvard Business School Case 409-044 Rob Smith, senior partner of construction consultancy Davis Langdon, has just led the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
method for identifying economically related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent searches by the same individual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And the top consulting (or law) View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13530 Cases & Course MaterialsBest Practices: Decision Making Among Venture Capital Firms Harvard Business School Note 804-176 Describes investment decision-making processes, based on interviews with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
the only dedicated forest equipment company of size that remained in a consolidating industry. Competitors included global giants such as John Deere and Komatsu. Since his arrival at Ponsse in 2004, CEO Arto Tiitinen had focused the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
sovereign lands on the ocean floor — at least the size of California and rich in resources — to add to the territory of the United States. In fact, after acceding to the treaty, and completing our mapping of the coastal United States, we... View Details