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- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
ICSS Journal Making Boston Stronger By: Leonard, Dutch, Arnold M. Howitt, Christine M. Cole, and Philip B. Heymann Abstract—In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, a team from Harvard University carried out extensive interviews with participants to identify... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
contrast the strengths and weaknesses of "open-ended questions" (e.g., World Management Survey) with "closed questions" (e.g., Management and Organizational Practices Surveys). For this type of data, open-ended... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
Demetri Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1994). “He and I had conversations that made me realize I had a very weak understanding of how traditional capital markets and business worked,” she says. To strengthen that understanding, Coupounas, after... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
5-year roadmap known as the "2015 EPS roadmap." The case is set in May 2014, just after IBM's annual investor briefing. Despite more than 10 years of strong financial performance, IBM reported relatively weak financial results... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
NorrisHarvard Business School Case 113-035 In October 2011, noted hedge fund manager David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital delivered a presentation at an investors' conference analyzing the business and accounting quality weaknesses of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
needs to succeed—can also be a weakness when it comes to benefiting financially from their hard work. The fact that founders are so attached to their ventures is wonderful, but can also be used against the founders, as was the case with... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
ownership patterns that help to explain the dispersion. For instance, government-owned organizations tend to receive low management scores across all the sectors and countries in the study. "They are particularly weak at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
If capitalism was a stock, the market would appear rather bearish on its future. Bank failures, economic crises, and middle-class riots across the globe appear symptomatic of large systemic weaknesses in the market system, highlighted by... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
than they had expected with higher-than-anticipated costs, a monopolistic distribution network, strong competitors, a weak partner ecosystem, and a market that was unresponsive to tariff cuts. In early 2012, a year and a half later, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
loans to small firms and those with more "soft information"—particularly in states with weak legal enforcement of financial contracts. However, decentralized banks are also more responsive to the competitive environment when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
software when they enter a new network, for example. Another weak spot is that hot-spot carriers can't control the user's experience. A Capital Idea? Venture capitalist Geoffrey Moore, who wrote Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
do I help weak performers improve quickly? How do I coach our strongest performers to become even stronger? —Lauren Moore Park (MBA 2011) Principal-in-Residence, Achievement First, Brooklyn, New York What needs to change in education?... View Details
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
self-evaluation. They appraise themselves not on P&L but on a set of 35 skills—a process that lets them measure strengths and weaknesses thoroughly, proving to CEO Jeff Immelt (HBS MBA '82) that they are responding to his mandate that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
enter the market for financial products using its exchange model. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717517-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-518 Betfair (C) Prompted by a takeover bid from CVC, Betfair reassesses the strengths and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
two. He felt he was weak and that she was the one that would stand behind him and give him the strength to take on these leadership roles. The crucible we speak of here, Brian, is really a turning point in his life, which he had to make... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
how weak the linkages were between MNCs and NGOs on the one hand and governmental and intergovernmental organizations on the other. MNCs demonstrably reduce poverty by providing jobs and nourishing local business. NGOs want to reduce... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
the error structure. However, traditional tests to detect serial correlation have weak power and can be misleading, resulting in misuse of moment conditions and incorrect inference. We present an appropriate set of moment conditions to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
Corporate Governance." ProfessorAlexander Dyck Dyck: "What I think is most interesting are… countries that have weak legal protections that nonetheless pursue share-issue privatizations. And the question is: Is that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
"People can actually build up their compassion 'muscle' and respond to others' suffering with care and a desire to help," he said. Great leaders attest that it is not a sign of weakness or relinquishing authority to be consistently kind... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
lengths to explain their methodologies,” he adds, “but most people don’t have the time or inclination to go that deep. They just stop at the number.” Behind the Numbers Going beyond the numbers to look at the methodologies reveals View Details