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  • November 2017
  • Teaching Note

Tencent

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-426. Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China’s largest social networking... View Details
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  • 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
  • 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 Jun 2001
  • News

On the Inside

Top billing, of course, goes to her boss, George W. Bush (MBA ’75), but Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao (MBA ’79) is also making a name for herself in the new administration. Chao, who has previously served in several government posts and as president of United Way of... View Details
Keywords: Government
  • 14 Aug 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

where the next left-field idea could be the next big thing. This book explores this culture of psychological safety and provides a blueprint for bringing it to life. The road is sometimes bumpy, but succinct and informative scenario-based... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

information advantages across delegates and delegators, (2) reports both stocks and flows in the measures of account, and (3) has a mutually agreeable due process to match across periods the actions of delegates and the outcomes of those... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

Spain, was expanding and wanted to exploit customer information to increase commercial effectiveness. At the same time, it was pushing for innovation in the nascent Spanish credit card market. To avoid the considerable investments of time... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

Physical Health By: John, Leslie, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—This research examines how access to information on peer health behaviors affects one's own health behavior. Methods: We report the results of a randomized field experiment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

correlations between their risk-based return premia, and periodic flights to quality. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/Comovement_RAPS.pdf The Effect of Reference Point Prices on Mergers and Acquisitions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

may need "hot" financial markets to get through the initial period of discovery or diffusion. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mrhodeskropf/FinancingRiskandInnovation.pdf   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 114-049... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

enough good information to continue? HS: The running of the experiments is actually part of the resource acquisition strategy. Starting with a belief and an idea, how does the entrepreneur prove a project's... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

or is it still too early?" Dick Costolo wondered as he reflected on the latest acquisition offer. He had been building FeedBurner with his three co-founders for almost four years and was staring at the details of an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

information to enhance care delivery and realize cost efficiencies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50183 October 26, 2015 Harvard Business Review Measuring and Communicating Health Care Value with Charts... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

acquisition and retention, costs and productivity, firm scope, pricing, growth platforms, etc. Some of the finest examples of business model innovations, whether it is IBM's outsourcing of key elements of the IBM PC or Salesforce.com's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2025
  • News

Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/415040-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-001 HEINEKEN—Brewing a Better World (B) This is a follow-up to the “HEINEKEN—Brewing a Better World (A)” case, with updated information on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

thought (versus conscious thought) would reduce frequency of intrusions from an analogue trauma film. Participants viewed a distressing film and were subsequently instructed to think about the film deliberately (conscious thought), to perform a demanding task while... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

through the lens of their mistaken theory, meaning a person may ignore or discard information her mistaken theory leads her to consider unimportant. We propose solution concepts embedding such channeled attention that predict when a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Aug 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!

David Collis Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor of Business Administration The joke used to be that you could only make a million dollars in the airline industry if you started with a hundred million dollars. With the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

executives, middle managers, and sales people from companies across a variety of industries. The survey focused on questions about how well their companies’ strategies informed six critical elements of their sales approaches. The results... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel