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- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
many consolidations in the past decade. Does the rapid consolidation of New World producers make profits at the cost of diversity? Should a beer company own a vineyard? A: The... View Details
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the HBS campus for a two-day... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
Laid Off Sandra J. Sucher and Phillip AndrewsHarvard Business School Case 612-008 This case describes the experience of Anne Riley, a 28-year-old private equity analyst, who was laid off in 2008. The case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
to capital, which was a primary focus of hers at the SBA. Spreading The Wealth Having spent over 25 years in private equity and venture capital firms before becoming SBA Administrator, Mills has perspective... View Details
- 16 Dec 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Marrying Distance and Classroom Education
save all these costs if we just do it online, they have to recognize that neither the quality nor the quantity of what comes from that online discussion is ever going to compensate for the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
suggest that in many commonly regulated markets in which firms share similar cost structures, firms are likely to experience incentives to ratchet down and delay the introduction of innovative products. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Business School Case 615-009 American Airlines in 2011 (A) The "American Airlines in 2011" case set was developed to provide a setting for the comparative analysis of two very different business models in the U.S. domestic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2012
- Article
Management Practices across Firms and Countries
By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing American, Japanese, and German firms are the best... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Competency and Skills; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Organizations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Sectors; Performance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Private Equity; Multinational Firms and Management; United States; Germany; Japan; China; India
Bloom, Nicholas, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Management Practices across Firms and Countries." Academy of Management Perspectives 26, no. 1 (February 2012): 12–33.
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
watches the program at its original time be valued in terms of cost for ad space the same as a person who watches it 3 days later via his DVR? This same problem is cropping up within the online medium as... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
"My response was that there's a big difference between a really great product and a company," she said. Given the constraints of costs and the problems of marketing,... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
products and services. It's not always the flashiest idea that wins. Mayo gestures to a striking lamp on his desk with a lampshade depicting the HBS campus. Hand-painted by an artist in New Hampshire, the lampshade is beautiful; however, selling them at a View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
minds to wander were correlated with activity in this network. The Persistence of Inflation versus that of Real Marginal Cost in the New Keynesian Model Author:Julio J.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
generator, which is facing significant uncertainty regarding the cost and availability of alternative energy sources. Problems with the contracted supply of natural gas and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2017
- Teaching Note
Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern
By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
Teaching Note for HBS No. 216-057. View Details
- February 2007 (Revised January 2008)
- Supplement
Multifactor Models (CW)
By: Malcolm P. Baker
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
could reshape capitalism and its relationship to society. It could also drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy as it opens managers' eyes to immense human needs that must be met, large new markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large cross-section View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
navigate conflicts both external and internal. Today, more than ever, markets exert continual pressure on organizations to cut costs and return capital to the bottom line, but building value demands that much View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
opened to cover the secondary health-care needs of the health department's inhabitants. In 2003, the model was extended to also cover primary care. The health department received a capitation fee for each registered inhabitant View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 1982 (Revised September 1988)
- Case
Steven B. Belkin
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Richard O. von Werssowetz
Steven Belkin, 26 years old and 2 1/2 years out of HBS, has decided to leave a group travel company he has run for the last year to start his own similar business. In the course of several months he has written a business plan, attracted several partners and employees,... View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Business Startups; Decisions; Equity; Investment; Personal Finance; Recruitment; Resignation and Termination; Failure; Partners and Partnerships
Stevenson, Howard H., and Richard O. von Werssowetz. "Steven B. Belkin." Harvard Business School Case 383-042, October 1982. (Revised September 1988.)