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  • 28 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How to Harness Auction Fever

phenomena differ in that each proposes a different underlying mechanism: The winner's curse is an information story. When bidders lack perfect information regarding the true value of an item, they must act... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Web Services; Technology
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Businessmen and Land Ownership in the Late Nineteenth Century

By: Tom Nicholas
This article analyses the proportions of personal to real estate wealth for a group of 295 businessmen profiled in the Dictionary of business biography. It shows that businessmen who owned land on a large scale in the late nineteenth century were a comparatively small... View Details
Keywords: Ownership; Personal Finance; Property; Biography; History; Acquisition; Wealth; Power and Influence; Status and Position; Integration; Transformation; Market Transactions
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  • 30 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain

Value Exchange is improved through efficient information management. Mobil's Speedpass (read book excerpt here) is an example of how knowing your customer can lead to the creation of new products, increased loyalty, and the View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
  • 20 Oct 2016
  • News

Smart Moves

advertisers, historical and real-time traffic information to insurance underwriters, and more. Mistele was a Detroit kid, the son of a lawyer, who had an early interest in technology. “When I was in high school, I worked for an electrical... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation
  • 29 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

acquisition or embark on a major European expansion, for example. While any competent CEO would discuss the initiative with his direct reports and, one hopes, gain their support, most subordinates will read the tea leaves and endorse... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

copper-mining company, widely considered to be one of the most professionally managed firms in South America in spite of the fact that it was 100% government-owned. A $10.5 billion company in 2005, Codelco faced the challenge of incorporating View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Class Acts

administrators, and students," he notes. Toward that end, Dobron and SA Technology Committee chair Judy Stahl (MBA '96) helped put into place the School's new information technology platform, which included establishing a site on the... View Details
  • 22 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

information provided by office culture is gone. You could wear your best suit and have a two-hour meeting in the middle of the day with the C-suite of your firm’s biggest competitor without anyone being the wiser. Pause for a moment and... View Details
Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel
  • 23 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

relationship between these two variables, others find no effect or even a negative relationship. In this paper, we suggest that the differences in prior findings may be due to the failure to separate the processes of knowledge acquisition... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 1992 (Revised December 1992)
  • Case

Harley-Davidson, Inc.--1987

By: W. Carl Kester and Julia Morley
After an LBO and near bankruptcy in the early 1980s, Harley-Davidson makes an astonishing recovery, going public in 1986. Its listing on the New York Stock Exchange in 1987 provides the occasion of an equity analyst to publish a research report in which she must issue... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Currency Exchange Rate; Reports; Crisis Management; Going Public; Research; Competition; Auto Industry; Japan; New York (city, NY)
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  • February 2009 (Revised March 2009)
  • Case

Publicis Groupe 2009: Toward a Digital Transformation

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird
After a series of acquisitions, Maurice Levy, the Chairman and CEO of Publicis Groupe, had created the fourth largest marketing and communications company in the world. His next major challenge was managing the firm's digital transformation. In December 2006, the... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation; Financial Crisis; Globalized Firms and Management; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Expansion; Information Technology; Advertising Industry; Communications Industry
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  • 25 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

upgrades, forming hypotheses and conducting experiments with each new version along the way. Intuit adopted such a strategy when developing Fasal, a mobile platform that delivers agricultural market price information to farmers in India.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 30 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 30

to the conclusion that diaspora connections continue to be important even as online platforms provide many of the features that diaspora networks historically provided (e.g., information about potential workers, monitoring, and reputation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

of miscommunication among experimenters and theorists about how to evaluate a theory that can be rejected by sufficient data, but may nevertheless be a useful approximation. A standard experimental design reports whether a general theory can be rejected on an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

non-profit organizations, and for-profit firms including financial institutions. They embody a number of different assumptions about incentives, drawing from economics, psychology, and sociology. We describe examples of each program and provide some View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 1, 2016

incidences by firms. The data cover two field experiments run by a large stock-photography agency. We find that substantially reducing the requested amount generates a small increase in the settlement rate. However, for the same reduced request, a message View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

"The best-laid schemes of mice and men go often awry." - Robert Burns, 1785 An entrepreneur starts a company with plans to go public, but ultimately accepts a low-ball acquisition offer from a competitor. A newlywed husband... View Details
Keywords: Re: Francesca Gino
  • 27 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 27, 2016

required by participants and those provided by suppliers (“the skills gap”) and the gap that separates skill acquisition from skill application (“the skills transfer gap”). We canvass the literature on skill measurement, acquisition, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

workforce diversity initiatives. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-019.pdf Cases & Course Materials Accounting for Business Combinations: Acquisition Method Harvard Business School Note 108-067 A technical note... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Case Study: Moment in the Sun

173, 2007) Go big or go home. Instead of competing against the “heavies” in a “land grab,” Ario should position itself as a target for acquisition or as a partner. The heavies and the IPO market value innovative tech and business models... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell