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- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
definition of profit by changing accounting rules. On one level, this corporate behavior embodies the capitalist spirit articulated by Milton Friedman: "The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits." But the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
organizations, and what managers must do to effectively lead the change process. Tushman and O'Reilly are the coauthors of Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal, Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
enterprise was emerging across the non-Western world. Often local and Western managerial practices were combined to produce hybrid forms of business enterprise. After 1945 many governmental policies designed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
increase in experience, consistent with learning on the job. Answerers who focus on particular question categories provide answers of higher quality but earn lower pay per hour (perhaps reflecting a lack of versatility). Answers provided during the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
phones, and focused the company on the critical launch of its next iteration of handsets, BlackBerry 10. The phones came in two versions: first launched was a touch-screen phone designed to attract mass-market consumers, followed by... View Details
- 10 Nov 2022
- News
Peloton Founder Starts His Next Trek
A funding. "You might buy your first rug from Home Depot or Walmart, and then maybe later you're able to afford something from a place like Pottery Barn," Foley told Axios. "And then, just a fairly small number of people get to work with View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
2023, Google and Bing both launched their own versions of a chatbot for search. The AI boom was underway—and so was the AI research boom. Many predict that GenAI will change the face of business as dramatically as the rise of the internet... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Research Summary
Overview
My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
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Overview
My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
- May 2017
- Supplement
Betfair (B), (C), and (D) Case Slides
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and John Heilbron
Contains slides related to the Betfair B, C, and D cases.
Abstracts:
B) Buoyed by success in the market for gambling contracts, Betfair attempts to enter the market for financial products using its exchange model.
C) Prompted by a takeover bid from... View Details
Abstracts:
B) Buoyed by success in the market for gambling contracts, Betfair attempts to enter the market for financial products using its exchange model.
C) Prompted by a takeover bid from... View Details
- Student-Profile
Erica Moszkowski
An interdisciplinary approach to economics has always appealed to Erica Moszkowski (she/her). After taking a computer science course that examined mechanism design and computational elegance, she began to apply ideas gleaned from her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
employees.” —Kieron Stopforth (MBA 2019) Managing the Future of Work Project Companies need to move beyond the old models of workforce development and human resources—those days have passed. The project addresses the changing nature of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)
just signed on to do with Fox. To become a truly competitive global company, you need to have a broad portfolio. Hello Kitty is great, but we need to have other properties to grow even further. We also want to expand our business View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
valuation of US$10.7 billion, Bharti purchased from Zain, a Kuwaiti firm, its mobile operations in 16 African nations. “It would have taken us years to achieve Zain’s scale,” Mittal explains. “Furthermore, our business View Details
- September 2006 (Revised February 2010)
- Supplement
Airbus vs. Boeing (F): 2002-2006
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Erich Alexander Voigt and Jordan Mitchell
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Erich Alexander Voigt, and Jordan Mitchell. "Airbus vs. Boeing (F): 2002-2006." Harvard Business School Supplement 707-452, September 2006. (Revised February 2010.)
- September 2006 (Revised February 2010)
- Supplement
Airbus vs. Boeing (E): 2001
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Erich Alexander Voigt and Jordan Mitchell
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Erich Alexander Voigt, and Jordan Mitchell. "Airbus vs. Boeing (E): 2001." Harvard Business School Supplement 707-451, September 2006. (Revised February 2010.)
- September 2006 (Revised February 2010)
- Supplement
Airbus vs. Boeing (D): 2000
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Erich Alexander Voigt and Jordan Mitchell
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Erich Alexander Voigt, and Jordan Mitchell. "Airbus vs. Boeing (D): 2000." Harvard Business School Supplement 707-450, September 2006. (Revised February 2010.)
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
many future entrepreneurs - accidental or otherwise - in his faculty role as the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration. After graduating as a Baker Scholar, Brierley entered the DBA Program and worked as a research... View Details