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- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
partners to build her fashion business and legendary luxury brand based on understated elegance. Chanel’s famous “little black dress” was accompanied by many other innovations including the use of jersey as material for daytime clothing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
catch-up-with-the-buddies lunch, meetings now span a day and a half and they happen up to six times a year. While reviewing relevant materials used to mean flipping through the annual report on the plane ride to the annual meeting, it now... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Global Change in the Built Environment
materials for the first year MBA core curriculum and created three programs for executive education both here and off campus. What did your participants identify as some of the major trends or issues influencing the real estate... View Details
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
Harlan Cleveland's piece, "Information as a Resource" that appeared in 1982 in The Futurist. In it, Cleveland, a scholar and former Undersecretary of State, argued that a society based on information would look very different than one based on raw View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
development. Although from the early 1970s Britain experienced a revival in the quality of innovation and improved productivity growth, structural weaknesses in the commercialization environment still remain. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43088... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
to support immoral enterprises. Hayes argued that an investor is in a better position to change a company's policies than an outsider, noting that his college investment committee used proxy materials to raise an issue about sexual... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
disconnect between strategic goals and field implementation in sales. This article focuses on four areas where companies can improve links between strategy and sales. The article also outlines how selling activities materially affect core... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
that the Undefeated refinement better captures actual choice behavior. This is surprising because the Intuitive Criterion refinement is the most commonly utilized belief refinement in the literature while the Undefeated refinement is rarely employed. Our results have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49300 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 515-095 Evans Food In April 2014, Hector Guerra (GMP 16) was discussing his company's dilemma with his living... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
government are at their lowest ever," says Buell. "There is a danger that that disgust can lead to disengagement. Showing the ways in which government materially affects people's lives through its actions has the potential to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
future research. Specifically, I call for research on the materiality of environmental and social issues for the future financial performance of corporations, the design of incentive and control systems to guide strategy execution,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
Last year I completed a case series on GE, titled "GE ... We Bring Good Things to Life," in which the issue of CEO succession was raised in the last of the two cases. In classes in which I've used the materials for discussion,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
stakeholders and steps the new executive can take to manage the transition, including building necessary relationships and adapting to the culture. The plan also identifies archival materials that would be useful for the incoming... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
separating audit from consulting, you may have two of the Big Four serving your business, and the other two ... serving your competitor." Edward Hare laments that "conditions have not materially changed ... further scandals are... View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
quantitative and evidence-based evaluation of enterprise performance and to financial valuation. The approach is generalizable to any modern industry and integrates existing well-known frameworks. The materials are consistent with what is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
fosters a process of personalization of management learning. This process allows management education to provide the foundations for leaders' development by transforming potentially regressive MBA experiences into rich material for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
case:http://hbr.org/search/813077-PDF-ENG Developing the Materiality Matrix at Telefónica Eccles, Robert G., George Serafeim, and Asun Cano EscoriazaHarvard Business School Case 413-088 Telefónica, one of the largest telecommunication... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Materials Harvard Business School Case 107-018 Explores the process and inputs behind financial and operational forecasting in the Electronic Specialty Materials unit at Air Products and Chemicals, a global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
global accelerator in which judges across international regions are randomly assigned to evaluate startups headquartered across the globe.” Case Studies and Materials Rolex SA Doug J. Chung “Rolex SA was one of the most successful... View Details