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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
growth of a company. Not surprisingly, firms spend billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and demonstrate that these investments... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
continuously learning from others and reinventing themselves. Let’s explore those in turn: Adaptability. Like many industries, the NFL has seen rapid growth and evolution over the past 25 years. Multiple rounds of rule changes have... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
widely used would reduce the amount of fossil fuel we ultimately burn. Taken together, these developments perhaps serve as a snapshot of the environmental landscape today. On the one hand, scientific indicators continue to warn of the View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
and marginal-cost options. The emphasis on short-term earnings per share as the primary driver of share price, and hence shareholder value creation, acts to restrict investments in innovative long-term View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
Well, I think, our life's greatest obstacles present us the most opportunity. What fun would life be if we never faced any adversity? What sense of fulfillment would we have if we never had an obstacle to overcome? What sort of growth... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
card networks, the decline of checks, the rise of stored value cards, and the growth of new payment methods such as PayPal, Bill Me Later, and decoupled debit. This case presents the structure of these payment methods, focusing on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
innovations, making it financially independent from corporate funding. The case explores HP's history in Singapore and the role of the EDB in encouraging the growth of local R&D capabilities. The case poses questions on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
and professional mentorship. She said, “After completing my MBA, I will continue to scale Envisions to other states while pursuing my professional career, ensuring its long-term impact on the next generation of diverse leaders.” Matt... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
seem to fix. "The problems facing Nigeria and West Africa are too great for the public sector or traditional NGOs to solve," says Masha. "The private sector can make a much more concerted, long-term effort to address these issues while... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
micro-foundations to capture the essentials of our setting, i.e. the handheld video game console market. In doing so, we provide a framework to understand the dynamic, long-term impacts of bundling on demand. We find that hardware sales... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
long-term impact on the practice and thinking in this field will reach its full potential. From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management Author:Anette Mikes Publication:Accounting, Organizations and Society... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
(MBA 1991), founder & CEO, Savvy Growth “If you make two things happen, no matter what, it will transform your life: 1) live close to school so your children can walk to and from it, and 2) live close to your office. If you do a... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Eastern Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dow Chemical made a major investment in the Halle-Leipzig region, one of the largest chemical industry sites in Europe. The executive in charge of Dow's operations in the region, Bart Groot, increasingly felt that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
the implementation of energy efficiency measures, which create long-term financial and environmental benefits. With early success serving customers in the cold storage and industrial manufacturing sectors, the seven-year-old company must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
feature advertisements, and aisle displays) at the fiscal quarter end when they have greater incentive to boost earnings. Our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
program, first- and second-year students participated in a diverse range of pursuits this summer, many of them focused on racial equity and justice. Among them: Developing a strategic growth plan for Hack.Diversity, which aims to improve... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
the other parties and helps you strike a better deal, but in other situations, particularly those involving long-term relationships, it damages trust and goodwill and makes an impasse more likely. To avoid or defuse anger, take a break to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
property, the war also brought to an end the deepest Depression in history. Moreover, the decades after the war witnessed more rapid economic growth than the world had ever seen, not least in the vanquished countries. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and endogeneity. Exploiting a new comprehensive industry-level data set of 29 countries between 1985 and 2000,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne