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- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
Facebook John Deighton and Leora KornfeldHarvard Business School Case 511-110 In late 2008, executives at Coca-Cola had to decide what to do with a fan-created page on Facebook that had amassed over one million followers in three months. From a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
dormant at the time. But with the growth of the microprocessor and of biotechnology in the late 1970s, as well as the deregulation of the airline and financial services industries, new opportunities for eager entrepreneurs were created.... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
American business ought to be run, including changes to fiduciary duties, legal liability, takeover rules, and business education, among many other areas." Lorsch and Khurana will air their views in more detail to an academic... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
surprising that the venture capital industry was essentially dormant at the time. But with the growth of the microprocessor and of biotechnology in the late 1970s, as well as the deregulation of the airline and financial services... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
cash for electronic value and vice versa, forming the backbone of an emerging electronic currency ecosystem that has potential to connect millions of poor and “unbanked" people to the formal financial system. Unfortunately, low service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
had suggested—and if so, who should be charged how much and for what? Could YouTube charge users for downloading content, a model it was now beginning to test? Or would it be better for the online video giant to continue to pursue an advertising model, but perhaps... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
also extended to the companies in which XTV invested. These were structured as separate legal entities, with their own boards and officers. XTV sought to recruit employees from other start-ups who were familiar with managing new... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
the chain best positioned to create a process that benefits all. In this excerpt, Rangan discusses the promise of channel stewardship. (Look for an HBS Working Knowledge interview with Rangan next month.)Senior managers of most of the companies involved in moving goods... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Interactive Controls: Which, When, and Why? Author:Anette Mikes Abstract Taking a multiple-control perspective, I investigate a control debacle and its aftermath at a financial services company (MultiBank), focusing on an insurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
million students consume more than $1 billion worth of food annually. “There are 371 colleges and universities here, so 371 food service directors are making decisions about where and how the food for a million students is being purchased... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
customer orientation. The study also suggests that the relationship between market orientation and innovation consequences is stronger in highly competitive environments but weaker in technology turbulent ones. Finally, findings suggest that the relationship is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
peers. Qualitative data offer insights into the social identification processes underlying demographic similarity effects on turnover and promotion in professional service organizations. Working PapersLearning from My Success and from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
growth. Why? HBS's Jane Wei-Skillern and Duke-based colleague Beth Battle Anderson discuss their analysis of some 300 social enterprises. Tishler: How do you distinguish between branches and affiliates? Wei-Skillern and Anderson: Branches are organizational units that... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
http://www.isc.hbs.edu/pdf/Vietnam_Competitiveness_Report_2010_Eng.pdf Working PapersInside the Learning Curve: Customer-, Domain-, and Technology-Specific Learning in Outsourced Radiological Services Authors:Jonathan R. Clark, Robert... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Political Correctness Authors:Robin J. Ely, Debra E. Meyerson, and Martin N. Davidson Periodical:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 9 (September 2006) Abstract Legal and cultural changes over the past 40 years ushered unprecedented numbers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
analyzing why his drive and commitment are so strong. When pressed, however, Langford will point to his family tree. “I inherited from my father and grandfather a quiet but deep sense of the old codes around honesty, integrity, service to... View Details
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
by Harvard Business School's Aldo Musacchio in the BGIE Unit, showing that this hypothesis has little empirical support. A careful study of 19th-century French and American law, for example, found little difference between the two countries in the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
environmental, social, and governance proposition to value creation, both in top line growth, cost reductions, regulatory and legal interventions, and avoiding some of those interventions, productivity uplift by their workers, and asset... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Mariner (MBA '78), CFO of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins, traces baseball's major turning point to the mid-1970s when several players, supported by a Supreme Court ruling, established their legal claim to "free agency" and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
state initiative from above, civil society mobilized from below, using the judiciary to hold the state legally responsible for policy implementation. Reforms exposed acute gaps in service delivery,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne