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  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

to exit? If Costolo didn't think so, would he be able to convince his co-founders who all had different personal risk profiles? This was going to be the biggest decision in the life of FeedBurner and its co-founders. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

contributions—regarding which greater team heterogeneity reduces the likelihood of equal splitting. Second, we show that these same founder characteristics also significantly affect the share premium in teams that split the equity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

sales, profitability, and assets. Here we analyze firm characteristics shown by industry before and after liberalization and investigate how industrial concentration, the number, and size of firms of the ownership type evolved between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Dec 2018
  • News

Source Code

ago with her former Palm and Handspring cofounder, scientist Jeff Hawkins. “They would understand it in a much deeper way than that ten-millionth example of the Google Images search does. They know that a dog might be dangerous, that a dog might bark—they understand... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

technological advances in transportation, spatial characteristics of population distributions, and advances in farming technologies have led to a dominant economies-of-scale model of production, distribution, and retailing in fresh... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2022
  • Supplement

Atlanta Ransomware Attack (B)

By: Amit Goldenberg and Julian Zlatev
This case describes the March 2018 Ransomware attack on the information technology (IT) systems of the city of Atlanta and the response by Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and her administration. The case includes a brief background on Bottoms and her young administration at... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Information Technology; Cybersecurity; Information Management; Leadership; Management; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Negotiation; Risk and Uncertainty; Social Psychology; Perception; Personal Characteristics; Perspective; Power and Influence; Society; Public Administration Industry; United States; Atlanta; Georgia (state, US)
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  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

impact by comparing warnings received after having safe personal experience with those received before people start making choices. A series of five experiments studies this question with a paradigm that combines both descriptive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

networks of personal relationships: 1) Change agents who were central in the organization's informal network had a clear advantage, regardless of their position in the formal hierarchy. 2) People who bridged disconnected groups or... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

forward-thinking companies that have adopted radical new approaches to talent, this book shows leaders how to bring the rigor they apply to financial capital to their human capital, elevating HR to the same level as finance in their organizations. The View Details
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

Authors:Michael I. Norton, Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, and Elizabeth W. Dunn Publication:Social Psychological and Personality Science (forthcoming) Abstract Three studies examine the extent to which laypeople endorse Thomas Hobbes' (1651)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

re-adjust Gucci's portfolio, especially as YSL continued to lose money. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709459 HP: The Computer Is Personal Again Harvard Business School Case 509-010 In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

prescriptively—from detailed historical case studies of "great negotiations," chosen more for their salience than their analytic characteristics or comparability? Taking a number of such cases compiled by Stanton (2010) as a... View Details
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

large due to either product characteristics or the distance between exporter and importer. Finally, we find that in countries with well-developed finance, total exports and the allocation of exports across importers are more sensitive to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

James McNerney Jr.

of characteristics that we look for, but one that stands out in our culture is the capacity to adjust and adapt — the ability to figure out a different way to deliver results while always acting with utmost integrity. This is your sixth... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

person one rank above them instead of the person one rank below. Last-place aversion suggests that low-income individuals might oppose redistribution because it could differentially help the group just... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

companies to become targets for private equity-backed, take-private transactions. We consider the characteristics of 483 private equity-backed deals in the 2000-2007 period relative to public companies, and find that, in addition to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

mere agent for shareholders, it will likely find it hard to justify significant resource allocations resulting from decisions based primarily on altruistic motives rather than company-related needs. Several of these companies were founded by individuals with a strong... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

characteristics of sustainable companies, and we develop a two-stage model that can help companies develop a culture of innovation, trust, and the ability for transformational change. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

enculturating new employees such that they develop pride in their new organization and internalize its values. Drawing on authenticity research, we propose that socialization leads to more effective employment relationships when it starts with newcomers expressing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’

sounds, this characteristic also contradicts yet another myth of innovation, that great new ideas spring in full and final form from the mind of the inventor, ready to be applied. Innovation rarely works that way, and that's why the... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill; Entertainment & Recreation