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  • 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

reflects the beliefs of the CEO and the management team or not? 2) Does it matter whether the CEO or management team have strong beliefs or not? 3) Why do people tend to develop strategies in line with their background and past successes,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

Company (A): The Rise and Fall of M. Douglas Ivester," HBS case #9-800-355. It eliminates some background detail and the financial data and exhibits. As with the original case, it chronicles the appointment of Douglas Ivester as CEO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

ranked the world's second-largest consumer of energy. This note provides background on China's energy industry and provides details on China's leading state-owned energy companies, production and consumption statistics, and government... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 26

dancing. One hundred and fifty nine middle-class children from diverse backgrounds in a northeastern USA metropolitan area completed the study in 2011. The development of ToM is associated with decreases in self-esteem, which in turn... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007

Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707019 The History of Credit Agencies in the United States Harvard Business School Note 307-057 Provides a brief background on the history of credit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

background to explore these questions. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708052 TheLadders Harvard Business School Case 908-061 Despite strong appeal among job seekers and outside... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

life story but a fascinating analysis of how Grove attacks problems. Born in Hungary of Jewish background in 1936, Andras Istvan Grof survived the Nazis only to face the Soviet invasion of his country. He fled to America at age twenty,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

(SEAS) and Harvard Business School as SEAS prepares to move two-thirds of its faculty and classes to a new campus in Allston, 1.5 miles from its current Cambridge location. Companion cases (“SEAS in 2016,” HBS No. 817-063, and “HBS in 2016,” HBS No. 817-062) provide... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

They also developed a learning experience, titled "Innovation Magic", that builds on their insights and backgrounds as teacher, researcher, and performer. The experience starts with magic performances by Randal and ends with a two-hour... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 03 Dec 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

Solutions Because of his background in political economy, Ramanna sees corruption as a problem of the commons. Beyond Jim's experience in "Against the Grain," Ramanna points to Russia as an example of a business environment... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage
  • 26 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

brain data to play a key role in future research on consumer choice. (In a recent HBS industry background note on neuromarketing, she discusses the techniques that have helped researchers decode secrets such as why people love... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
  • 12 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

structures you establish can make a big difference in fostering creativity. You should set up work groups so that people will stimulate each other and learn from each other, so that they're not homogenous in terms of their backgrounds and... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

efficiently in the presence of the firm than in its absence. PDF not available.   Cases & Course MaterialsAmorePacific Harvard Business School Note 507-070 Describes the dominant firm in the Korean cosmetics market up to the mid-2000s. Gives View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

provides a brief scientific background on obesity and its causes, comorbidities, and the economic cost of this epidemic. It then discusses the two main hypotheses of diet and the formation of NuSI. Finally, it describes the unique... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

deliver, and evaluate Sullivan's sales calls on two important retail buyers, Sam Cartwright of Mothercare and Anthony Pierce of John Lewis. The main case provides relevant background information about Faraway's market opportunity,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5

School Case 815-079 Climate Change: An Unfolding Story A brief background on climate change. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815079-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

for market share. Faced with this daunting business environment, T-Mobile's new CEO declared war on the rest of the industry, decrying competitor pricing practices and upending the traditional contract-based business model. This case provides View Details
  • 19 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

also identifies criteria that make a decision strategic and derives explanations why strategies often reflect the background of the strategist. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52726 And the Children Shall... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/215057-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-097 Discover Capital "Discover Capital" provides an in-depth look at a first time search fund run by the tenacious Kelly Quann Bianucci. It provides View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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