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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
reliable ones? Should we abandon our current business model for an entirely new one? Making bold changes demands bold leadership and, often, massive cultural transformation. Li points to organizations that beat the odds and succeeded at... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., think tank dedicated to providing research and policy analysis for environmental decision makers. "And even if returns on environmental investments were always positive, that does not mean... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
parts supply & logistics, FAPA, worked with his colleagues in the U.S., UK, China, and India to conduct analysis and develop three options: outsourcing e-coating to a third party in Sanand, outsourcing e-coating to a third-party in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4
Inkpen Abstract—The globalization of state-owned multinational companies (SOMNCs) has become an important phenomenon in international business (IB), yet it has received scant attention in the literature. We explain how the analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
diminished focus on losses and heightened focus on gains when policies are evaluated in bundled form. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-147.pdf PublicationsAssessing the Cost and Benefits of Brokers: A Preliminary View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
for Linear Air, but for the industry to get off the ground, is an interesting creative challenge for the entrepreneur." The ability to respond quickly to changing market conditions also demands high levels of creativity, whether the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
(humans, mannequins) and dog form (real dogs, toy dogs). We used multivariate pattern analysis of BOLD responses to uncover the representational similarity space for each area in the core face network. Here, we show that only responses in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Life, faced decisions about the company's growth strategy. Despite profound initial skepticism about demand for a user-generated virtual world that was not a traditional game, Second Life had achieved profitability and strong growth.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. These elections are not conducted, as claimed by Silvers, like those in the Soviet Union where “it was not really possible for people to make a free choice.” If the NLRB believes the election was flawed, it can... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
amount of waste generated to improve the efficiency of the by-product process. In addition to the managerial implications, this analysis can inform policy as we show that increasing disposal cost decreases the size of the primary market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
must grapple with it. Khurana lays out his institutional analysis and its repercussions in his new book, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
making business decisions," observes Lecturer Thomas J. Kosnik, who teaches Entrepreneurial Marketing. "Entrepreneurial Marketing encourages students to embrace analysis and logic while remaining open to the experience of creativity,... View Details
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
Publications August 2013 The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets By: Brochet, Francois, Gregory S. Miller, and Suraj Srinivasan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
thought (versus conscious thought) would reduce frequency of intrusions from an analogue trauma film. Participants viewed a distressing film and were subsequently instructed to think about the film deliberately (conscious thought), to perform a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
forthcoming Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, Mathias F. Hoeyer, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract— The well-known weak empirical relationship between beta risk and the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (iii) a coordination problem (lacking perfect foresight, it is unlikely that users will end up buying the same set of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
in Africa, where fertilizer was historically underutilized. Terrab and his team saw an opportunity to nurture and meet fertilizer demand by creating products tailored to the needs of African farmers. This case provides background on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Groman said, "we are on the verge of an era in which quantitative analysis will fundamentally change the nature of marketing, much as it changed Wall Street in recent years. The 'quants' are coming to marketing, and marketing capital... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
a binary choice of build or buy, today's advertisers frequently pursue hybrid policies of build and buy to procure the customized bundle required to develop, produce, and implement relevant, resonant promotional campaigns. Increasing numbers of advertisers are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne