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  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

Harvard Business School Case 107-035 Obadiah Vineyard's owners create financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to help them obtain funding to plant more acreage. The owners grapple with deferred taxes and the differences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

and suggest the effects on subsequent reporting periods and competitor behavior are greater than previously documented. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-073.pdf Geography, Poverty and Conflict in Nepal (revised)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

crisis. From what’s been reported by the press, the crises in the past, he’s been able to bluster through. There may be different crises here, where it’s not a question of, say, talking firmly to your bankers. For the most part, it looks... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 17 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Decoding the Artful Sidestep

concern that those findings might have been the result of different qualities of the responses. The design we report in our paper solves that problem: We hold the response constant and vary only the question that is asked. Q: What were... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 16, 2007

NPIL's new acquisitions in Canada and the United Kingdom to market NPIL globally. His three direct reports are each involved in different aspects of NPIL—the Canadian operations, the British operations, and the global business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

R&D and engineering. The region is now producing an estimated 90 percent of women's luxury shoes that sell for $500 or more per pair. Why Clusters Still Work The cluster's success is largely due to a lead firm acting as what Pisano calls a knowledge integrator. The... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Bad Times for Business

firm's integrity have been issues in American business since the rise of the corporation more than two centuries ago. So why this cycle of greed, why this eruption now? I think it goes deeper than just the rising stock market in the 1990s... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

visitors (both in person and on the Web) the opportunity to view interviews with artists, curators, and critics, while last year's "Transmute" gave Web users a chance to curate their own virtual exhibition using pieces from the MCA's collection. John McCarter is happy... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 06 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 6

firms in comparison to the agglomeration of domestic firms? Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

was especially strong when stars were concentrated in a small number of sectors, likely reflecting suboptimal integration among analysts with similar areas of expertise. Control variables ensured that these effects were not the spurious... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

place—and all specialists who are focused on just lung cancer." Source: The Health Care Crisis, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School. MD Anderson's integrated practice units became the subject of a 2008... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

competition. They do so by initially differentiating themselves to develop distinctive capabilities, but subsequently integrate these capabilities with those of the core units. At the corporate level, the new units demonstrate their value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2025
  • News

The Working Parent Revolution

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

restructuring in pillar industries and its effect on industry structures. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and vertical integration reduces the collective action problems associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Getting the Message

advertisers. The power of this technology, which is called DART (for dynamic advertising reporting and targeting), lies in its dynamic capacity to target, deliver, and measure the performance of ads. When surfers are visiting DART-enabled... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

2005, China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (COSCO) announced it would join the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). At that time, COSCO initiated sustainability reporting practices in line with the UNGC, and over the next six years these... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

Influences on Megachurch Pastors is an early-stage paper that looks at how leaders maintain the values of their institutions even as their industries rapidly change around them. Using the example of pastors who oversee enormous churches, the authors View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
  • 24 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Becoming an Ethical Negotiator

negotiator might answer this question differently for him- or herself? A: Think about a simple case that was reported a few years ago. The owner of a sports memorabilia shop had to leave for a few hours so he asked an inexperienced friend... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Sep 2016
  • News

How We Make It Work

two-parent families in the United States with children reported both parents working full-time in 2015—up from less than a third in 1970. For some, there has been a tangible impact on their professional lives, with 30 percent of the Pew... View Details
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

have helped and what lessons have been learned. Finally, the authors suggest new directions for housing policy, including the integration of best practices from past lessons into existing programs and innovations for large-scale,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace