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- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
information about a company he or she manages. The student must make decisions about pollution-reducing investments and production levels in the face of uncertainty about pollution permit prices. Students form groups of five, and throughout the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Ethics in Globalization
followed along and failed to exercise independent judgment. It is difficult or impossible to regulate against greed and against many of the other ethical shortcomings that have been seen. What can be done is to force greater transparency... View Details
Keywords: Re: Rafael M. Di Tella
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
Pons discusses what it means for US business leaders in confronting environmental challenges. 4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World In the face of today’s many messy problems, businesses must strive to help find... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
those of institutions serving customer bases with less dispersed needs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50612 Harvard Business School Case 918-037 Does It Hurt To Ask? Does It Hurt To Ask? (DIHTA) is an interactive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
start and end [my] ‘workday’” or to facilitate the “switch between work and home” were popular. Exercising and meditating consistently. Exercise was one of the most frequently mentioned activities, with... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
fictional three-party negotiation between a primary insurer and two reinsurers. It is appropriate for use in a wide variety of courses, including Financial Institutions, Negotiations, and courses related to the Insurance and Reinsurance industry. This View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
accumulation affects the development of organizational capabilities. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-035.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsInformation Use by Managers in Decision Making: A Team Exercise Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
Exercises Harvard Business School Exercise 208-045 Introduces students to simple forms and solution techniques for real options found in corporate settings. Revised versions of problems appearing in an older... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max H. Bazerman. If you have resolved to exercise more, try ignoring what your peers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
in the United States, in the 1980s. They started exerting direct pressure on the boards to remove the management of under-performing companies. By the early 1990s, we saw a further rise in institutional investor power and their willingness to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
modeling exercise (using the same computer tools employed by the ratings agencies) that demonstrates that the challenge of rating structured products lies in their extreme sensitivity to estimation errors—that even modest imprecision in... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
to help themselves. Any public health system must respect the reality of these consumer differences and not withhold care from people simply because they do not engage and do not speak up. As Atul Gwande has stated elegantly, “Patients are pleased to have their... View Details
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
behavior. Indeed, a significant cost for corporations—the cost associated with compensating key employees with stock options—was until recently treated as an expense for tax purposes but not for financial accounting purposes. More specifically, the value of stock... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409018 Stakeholder Analysis Tool Harvard Business School Exercise 808-161 This exercise enables users to identify stakeholders and analyze their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
exercise in amateur psychology? An effort to project the values of one group of managers who are on their way to "making it" onto the population of managers as a whole? Or is it the bedrock of a useful View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
resolve internal conflicts. In the Negotiations course, students not only analyze a number of case studies, but also participate in a series of negotiation exercises that give them hands-on practice with a variety of deal-making... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
planning can and can't do. While scenario planning can't forecast the future, the outcomes from its exercises help managers assign task forces around the necessary actions implied by the scenarios and create early warning indicators that... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
strategically significant moments to obtain feedback and support. Ironically, by exercising his power to give orders, the CEO actually reduces his real power, saps his energy and his organization's, and slows down progress. Ironically, by... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
collaborative filtering with cosine similarity of products, and comparison of different prediction models. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-107 Data Visualization & Communication View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
wholly owned by Tennant and run by a Tennant manager. The case examines the decisions the CEO and new venture head must make to best structure and position the venture to succeed. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810139-PDF-ENG To Catch a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne