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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998) in that its assumptions ensure that there is an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
century. It focuses especially on Beiersdorf, a pharmaceutical and skin care company in Germany. During World War I, the expropriation of its brands and trademarks revealed its vulnerability to political risk. Following the advent of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-011.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsCutlass Capital, L.P. Harvard Business School Case 805-075 David Hetz and Jon Osgood are forming a new venture capital fund in 2001 to invest in health care... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
a company. There’s this myth that if you want to go start a company, you just pitch on your HBS credentials and walk into a VC office and walk out with a huge check. That’s 1,000 percent not the case. Sierra and I have built this company while working other jobs... View Details
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act slated to be signed this week by U.S. President Barack Obama has been called the most sweeping set of rules for banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression. But what do... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
instructor, and later as a strategist for the Pentagon: O: Observe O: Orientate D: Decide A: Act Boyd's insight came from the need to develop a strategic approach—simple in nature, easy to execute and communicate—that made up for the fact... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
later, that he cared more about his company than about Phil. Ron Demer (MBA ’64) Ithaca, NY Happy to Be in the GOP We hope the Bulletin will also make space for an official of the Republican Party to counter the June article “You Only... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
post–Civil War era to commission-based canvassers hired and trained by manufacturers to sell agricultural products and books by Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, for instance. “Drummers,” who acted as the middlemen between manufacturers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
describe myself as a shock absorber,” she says. “My job is to take care of everyone on and off the set and solve their problems on a day-to-day basis.” As an undergraduate at Harvard, Nabatoff was the first woman to produce the Hasty... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
looking to hire. Holding contests to seek advice from the crowd may help companies fill the need for innovative answers more cheaply and quickly. “Contests create incentives and drive parallel search,” Lakhani said. “What you want when you View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
unexplored dimension. Deliberate Learning to Improve Performance in Dynamic Service Settings: Evidence from Hospital Intensive Care Units Authors:I. M. Nembhard and A. L. Tucker. Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
both are true, and that careful consideration of all the options can be done by our unconscious mind. Both conscious and unconscious thought have strengths and weaknesses. There are decisions where we believe conscious thought outperforms... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the School, even as HBS alumni continued to distinguish themselves in the realm of entrepreneurial practice. In 1982, acting on a marketing survey they had conducted as second-year students, David W. Thompson (MBA '81), Bruce W. Ferguson... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
International: The Second Act Harvard Business School Case 209-110 Thomas McDonald, senior vice president of Equity International (EI), is weighing an investment in the Brazilian homebuilder Gafisa. Was this the right country? The right... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
a stake in addressing the needs of end users; a smaller player might not have much freedom to maneuver, but it needs a channel strategy to ensure its financial success and perhaps nudge the powerful players toward stewardship. The examples in this book illustrate View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
P/E industries, which have a negative valuation change in the year after the investment. 2006 New England Journal of Medicine Leading Clinicians and Clinicians Leading By: Bohmer, Richard M.J. Abstract—More effective models of care... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
generations. DM: Why do you think this new generation cares more about the idea of purpose? RS: This next generation, I think, sees the world differently. They have grown up with these catastrophes, with these hundred-year floods and... View Details
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
responsible for the School's strategic planning and new initiatives (1998-2005). Light became Acting Dean on August 1, 2005, upon the departure of Kim B. Clark, and Dean on April 24, 2006. While in graduate school at Harvard, Light met... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
intentions. When employees witness a leader acting in ways that could be seen as threatening cherished values, they are quick to conclude that he or she is a hypocrite. But leaders who take the time to carefully explain the reasons behind... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace