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  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

financial value. Yet scholars have recently shown that entrepreneurial activity by users is more widespread than previously believed. We present data and statistics documenting the prevalence, technological impact, and economic impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

models and evaluating their efficacy in standalone fashion—just as engineers test new technologies or products. However, the success or failure of a company's business model depends largely on how it interacts with those of the other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

closed, and the portfolio of businesses reshuffled. A good example of a pure Theory E approach was Al "Chainsaw" Dunlap's attempt to transform Scott Paper (now owned by Kruger Inc.) between 1996 and 1998. CEOs who employ Theory... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

The Transformers

lead the program. Today, it’s part of the fabric of the School. “We have developed a very rich portfolio of courses, cases, projects, and field studies to engage students,” says Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing. Last... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

determine prices and utilization in the short run, as well as how long-run supply is determined in an industry where capacity additions take several years. Also describes how advances in deep-water drilling technology are changing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Career Coach

Doug Lester

Doug’s approach to career and executive coaching is informed by over ten years in marketing, digital, and general management roles at Johnson & Johnson and other Fortune 500 companies. He offers perspective as a former executive recruiter and often counsels alumni on... View Details
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  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

a unique aspect of our research setting allows us to test who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of display promotions in the short run, they can reallocate these promotions within their View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

increase in demand. Lone Inventors as Sources of Technological Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality? Authors:Jasjit Singh and Lee Fleming Publication:Management Science 56, no. 1 (2010) Abstract Are lone inventors more or less likely to invent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

perspectives on how to allocate water, the institutional mechanisms for doing so, and the potential responses of agricultural producers to the changing marketplace. Is now the time to double down on farming in the Central Valley, shift to a higher-value-added crop... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

these conventions, pension assets and liabilities are not included in balance sheet calculations. The modern risk management tools of derivatives technologies can improve both corporate decision making and external analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

activity, performed by individuals with substantial experience in shepherding young companies to maturity, creates substantial value in the portfolio company. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Alumni Books of 2016

game and that a passive approach is more profitable in today’s market. By adjusting your portfolio asset weights to match a performance index, you consistently earn higher rates of returns and come out on top in the long run. This book... View Details
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

Hatches Harvard Business School Case 809-072 Facing the downturn in late 2008, the partners in a West-Coast venture capital firm are trying to decide how to manage their portfolio companies and whether to make new investments. Not only... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

1926–2014 and international sector returns 1985–2014, we present four findings: (1) Fama is correct in that a sharp price increase of an industry portfolio does not, on average, predict unusually low returns going forward; (2) such sharp... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

compensated for bearing non-diversifiable risk—in other words, what’s left over after you take all of these disparate projects and throw them in a single portfolio of every risky project in the world. And yet, everywhere I went, venture... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
  • Career Coach

Matt Spielman

Matt (Columbia ’94, HBS ’99)  is the Founder and Managing Partner of Inflection Point Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm dedicated to igniting careers and energizing lives. Matt and his team at Inflection Point form meaningful partnerships... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

service especially needed given the isolation caused by the pandemic. After two decades in the senior housing industry, which included overseeing a multibillion-dollar portfolio for a REIT, Oppenheim developed a vitality framework built... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

includes laughter, music, eating well, and finding joy at any age; the role of caregivers and their critical impact on extending your lifespan; how your environment and demographics affect aging, and how to adopt new technologies and... View Details
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

it could replace the electrode in the millions of lithium-ion batteries currently in production. The management team needed to decide whether to pursue the breakthrough self-assembly technology or move resources to commercialize the new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

relevance; and positioning those elements as a portfolio that creates a compelling and persuasive impression. Debby Farrington (MBA 1976), founder and cochairman, Starvest Management, New York, New York When I graduated from college in... View Details