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  • 04 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

individuals have the choice to enact a variety of communication styles. We test the differential impact of being “warm and friendly” versus “tough and firm” in a distributive negotiation, when first offers are held constant and concession patterns are tracked. We train... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • February 2011 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs

By: John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr and Fan Zhao
Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with state owned enterprises and also government policies supporting a rival technology. Wen Yibo has used engineering expertise and political savvy to build a major privately... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Public Sector; Service Delivery; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Wastes and Waste Processing; Urban Development; Utilities Industry; China
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  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

businesses that scale undergo a graduation process in which they meet the varying expectations of multiple organizational resource providers. At the unit level, they convince established core units that the potential value from combining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2013
  • Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

opportunities for real-time conversations and engagement to people around the world. The company has accomplished this by taking advantage of the modular nature of today's ubiquitous communications infrastructures provided by the Internet... View Details
Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology
  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

knowledge of a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules. An entrepreneurial firm with limited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

products? (2) What are the differences between marketing to businesses vs. marketing to consumers? Since one of the options the firm is considering involves a consumer product—online game development—the case supports a discussion about the important differences, not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

ideas to a wider audience. The chapter looks at the origins of Porter's interest in clusters, which turns out to be a natural extension of his earlier work on companies. It identifies the key characteristics of Porter's conceptual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

information and coordinate people and resources on an increasingly global scale, he says. As the business landscape took on a completely new look beginning in the mid-1990s, academic critics found an easy target in the mismatch between... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education
  • 12 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

for growth. During the nineteenth century, most multinational investment in developing countries went into natural resources and related services. These were often enclave investments, like mining towns,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 nearly triggered another Great Depression, economies in Europe are still teetering, and powerful forces-income inequality, resource depletion, and mass migrations from poor to rich countries,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

the intense concerns regarding China's growing interest in Australia's prized natural resources sector? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709007 Busse Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

Publications, 2011 Abstract The sole objective of our ontological/phenomenological approach to creating leaders is to leave students actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

experiment evoking a realistic context, that privacy concerns are indeed sensitive to the indirect consequences of information transmission. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-075.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Compelling View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

young firms, given the uncertainties that were a natural part of the entrepreneurial process," Lerner explained. "General Doriot's idea was to create a new kind of organization that established a selection process, supplied... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge Authors:Bo Becker, Guhan Subramanian, and Daniel B. Bergstresser Publication:Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We use the Business Roundtable's challenge to the SEC's 2010... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

would leaders from all walks of life and from organizations of all kinds find the direction, energy, consensus, and talent to build a stable, sustainable financial system and at the same time shepherd the earth's natural View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

commonly observed organizational pattern, review the empirical evidence, and conclude with open research questions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49262 Forthcoming Journal of Economic Geography Return Migration and Geography of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

effect, these individuals bridge the lacunae between distant groups in the company's social structure. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-004.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment (revised)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 30

sweetriot to be the number one natural chocolate company in the world and to thus be a vehicle to drive change globally. How can she meet that objective while also keeping the company true to its social roots? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Dec 2007
  • HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

faced a long road to seal the deals, and a lot of work lies ahead. "While on the surface it is a laudable vision to get one laptop to each child, and the motives are pristine, there are stumbling blocks in implementation," observes Quelch. The conservative... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

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