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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
Art by Digital Vision Corporate leadership is a much-discussed topic these days. With financial scandals making headlines daily, the CEO hero worship that was common during the late 1990s is out and increased skepticism is in. “The... View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on Baker Lawn, Dean Srikant... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
fatigue syndrome (CFS), which for a long time went undiagnosed; battling CFS for some ten years, she could no longer work and therefore lost her health insurance. Her prescription bills alone were $600 a month, and she sometimes had to choose between buying food and... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
Climate Stories: Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry In this first post of “Climate Stories,” Jacqueline Adams engages with Kameale C. Terry, CEO and co-founder of ChargerHelp! Terry is a veritable unicorn, an entrepreneur in the sustainability... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
Professor George Serafeim (left) and Professor Rebecca Henderson (right); image by John Ritter CEOs are increasingly being asked to take the lead on some of the most vexing problems of our time, from climate change and data privacy to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
assessments when race was less relevant (Study 4). Practical and theoretical implications for interracial interaction are considered. Households' Willingness to Pay for Public Goods: Evidence from Patagonia's Introduction of Organic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
toward less profitable R&D firms. The latter is key to generating higher cash ratios at IPO, necessary for the secular increase, whereas the former mechanism amplifies this effect. The data confirm the prominent role played by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
venture-backed life sciences firm. In reviewing her proposal, Cristy Barnes considers the company's characteristics and how they differ from a typical investment. At the same time, the CEO and the venture capitalist are exploring the true... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
openness and the sociopolitical atmosphere) or some of the market factors, but few pay attention to both. We have developed sets of questions that companies can ask to create a map of each country's context and to gauge the extent to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
cleanliness and are staffed with teachers who use a proprietary curriculum to create an educational environment. Customers pay a significant premium for convenience—as much as $13 an hour for infant care versus $4 an hour or less for... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
Lawrence developed that further in commenting, ". . . Some people fell off the radar because they weren't part of ‘the plan' . . . Someone forgot to do the return-on-investment, and we as a nation will now pay a pretty price, not... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
and people don't like buying or paying for it. Therefore it takes skillful marketing to attract the attention of people and motivate the desired purchase behavior you are looking for." Amidst the generally dismal track record of the... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
controlling the flow of the investment. For an example of what we mean, let's look at Teradyne, the maker of semiconductor test equipment. In 1997, the company was confronted with an important innovation: the application of CMOS chip technology in testers. Chairman and... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
approximation of a fully sequential test for the maximum hazard ratio of the drug over multiple adverse events. A numerical study verifies that our method delivers Type I /II errors that are below pre-specified levels and is robust to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
usage; however, customer-to-customer communications tended to increase personal-use engagement across latent states and in both data sets. The findings suggest that firms offering digital services should pay attention to how the mode of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
co-CEO of the New Paper, and Sur, founder and CEO of the Juggernaut, leading a new venture in an intensely competitive environment has been the best sort of challenge, calling on every one of their MBA skills. On November 3 they talked to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
battling among themselves, were willing to pay ever-increasing sums for the rights to broadcast sports. Charles G. "Chase" Carey (MBA '81), chairman and CEO of Fox Television, was the driving force behind... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
alternative measures of trade costs, address potential reverse causality, and explore regional patterns. CEO Personality and Firm Policies By: Gow, Ian D., Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker, and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina Abstract—Based on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
and the consumers' discount factor, while statistically significant, fall in the region where PlayStation 2's position is unsustainable. Working PapersPay Dispersion and Work Performance Authors:Alessandro Bucciol and Marco Piovesan Abstract The effect of intra-firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
give its leaders what they need to lead,” says Delle, who had the opportunity to work with his former Design Thinking professor, Dean Srikant Datar, when Datar led a group of faculty members on an immersion trip to Africa in 2019. Delle runs several organizations... View Details