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- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
partial conversion (only part of the waste stream is converted into by-product), full+ conversion (the entire waste stream is converted into by-product and "waste substitute" virgin raw material is sourced to produce even more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
a modern enterprise, and encourages an ethic of greedy materialism in which managers are expected to care only about personal financial reward, and in which such human character virtues as honesty and decency are honored only when they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
currency, triggering a chain reaction that some believe contributed to the Great Recession of 2008. Here’s their thinking: Although the depressed value of the yuan increased the cost of raw materials imported by China, it produced a huge... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
(especially between western and eastern contexts) and is also a contribution to both the project management and cross-cultural management literatures. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2562376 Cases & Course Materials... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-113.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-010 Experience! The Finger Lakes: The Groupon Partnership Decision In 2010, Experience! The Finger Lakes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
efficiencies and lower costs. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/asheen/consumer%20mergers%206-28-13.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 413-013 Women MBAs at Harvard Business School: 1962-2012 Eight women... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 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 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
the iTunes LP format allows music companies to sell albums with bonus material such as photos. And the new Michael Jackson album will be available only in bundled format. Signs of things to come? A: I think so, yes. The labels waited a... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
cells in cancer patients) generated more than $2 billion in sales last year. Millennium Pharmaceuticals: Alan Crane (photo: Shelly R. Harrison) As the ability to analyze a patient's genetic material is developed, however, many believe... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
materialized a month or two later if those governors had opted to keep distributing the federal benefits, Kluender says. Unemployment insurance flowing into accounts dropped by $281.50 per week by early September. Yet earnings for those... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
equity fund. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406009 USG Corp. (A) Harvard Business School Case 807-090 Deals with CEO Bill Foote's decision of how to deal with USG's exposure to asbestos liability. USG was the largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
capacity, conditionally increasing expected emissions. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1702186 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 115-009 BMVSS: Changing Lives through Innovation One Jaipur Limb... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
strong interaction between financing choices for innovation and changing external conditions, especially reduced experimentation costs. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2519572 Cases & Course Materials Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
more credible monitoring regimes to reduce information asymmetries between themselves and their suppliers. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2343802 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 514-064... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
agency-theory derived predictions, does not confirm the private information hypothesis. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-106.pdf Cases & Course Materials Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe (Abridged)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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