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  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

School Case 811-064 Aardvark is an online social search service that allows users to pose questions and receive answers from other users in their extended social network. The case explores the process that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2024
  • In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

the layoff research of our colleagues as a touchpoint, we are troubled by the potential long-term costs of this trend, including reduced innovation, lower team engagement, and attrition of talented people.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

commercial implications—the technology would be immensely important to biotechnology firms looking to develop gene therapy products and was, therefore, sure to generate strong revenues for whichever entity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

paradox in a recent paper called "Rich versus King: The Entrepreneur's Dilemma," an early draft of which was featured in the Best Paper Proceedings of the 2006 Academy of Management Conference and the 2005 Babson-Kauffman View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

research on firm entry into new domains by examining heterogeneity in firms' framing and feature-level entry choices. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-007.pdf Modularity for Value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 13, 2015

and Beijing turned their focus to attracting these new entities, setting the stage for Sino-Soviet competition. Based on archival research from 10 countries, including new materials from Russia View Details
  • 28 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, February 28

of promoting from within, particularly with its chefs, and it took time to develop the necessary talent. Now DO & CO faced a decision: What type of growth should it pursue, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 9

me to achieve my top priorities?; (3) Do I give subordinates timely and direct feedback they can act on? Have I developed a succession roadmap?; and (4) Is my leadership style... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

innovation in a wide range of other industries, including pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, IT and telecommunications, defense, chemicals, and agriculture. We believe that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

forego one for the other? And what would this imply for the types of handsets and services they would need to offer? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2009 (Revised October 2009)
  • Case

CalPERS' Emerging Equity Markets Principles

By: Robert G. Eccles and Aldo Sesia
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS internal and external money managers were... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Value; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; China; California
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  • 10 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

the vendor of outsourced services can improve the efficiency and perhaps the quality of services delivered—particularly in health care, where outsourcing is on the rise. In... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

Reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, was largely unnoticed outside the expert community. However more recently public and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

case with professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Carin-Isabel Knoop, executive director of the HBS Global Research Group. The medical services industry hasn't been global... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 10 Jul 2023
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

the Second Half of Life, as well as the forthcoming Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier, coauthored with Oprah Winfrey. Hise Gibson: Leadership and habit formation My summer... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

sensible, potentially quite lucrative and, in a word, simple. Altruism is just a nice by-product. Looking For Drivers The phenomenon of open source has roots in a long tradition of sharing and cooperation in software View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
  • Research Summary

Managing Networked Businesses

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
Platform-based businesses that leverage network effects face a distinctive set of management challenges. A platform encompasses components and rules that facilitate interactions between the platform's users. A platform-based product or service exhibits a network... View Details
  • 11 Aug 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements

Keywords: by William Schmidt & Ryan W. Buell
  • 02 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

moral of this story is not how to do crisis management faster and better in a lightning-fast digital world. It’s that even the nimblest and deftest crisis management response cannot contain the damage of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 14

collection of innovative research and management insights that build upon the foundations of the first book but takes the study of brand relationships outside of traditional realms by applying new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne