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- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
increase the discount rate so that it includes the cost of capital plus the probability of a downside Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-036.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsPricing, Profits and Customer Value Frank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
calculate the returns on capital of different product designs for a variable annuity based on specified assumptions including a range of hedging scenarios. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311041-PDF-ENG Note:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
resource allocation within the group. In this way, the results are consistent with models where firm interlocks facilitate coordination across firms and are also consistent with models where relationships affect capital allocation.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
and mentored a bevy of other scholars who explored and explained the coming of managerial capitalism through their research, writings, and course development. Thirteen years after Professor Chandler's retirement, that tradition of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
mission to develop great general managers by capitalizing on the case method. In recent years, the School has added myriad initiatives that appear to celebrate complexity rather than strategic simplicity. Please draw these initiatives... View Details
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
professionals in venture capital firms or who were cashed-out entrepreneurs acting as angels for small start ups. Both sets of people had certain expertise that they were trying to transmit to highly inexperienced entrepreneurs.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Publishing) How do marketing managers assess the potential for global expansion and help their firms capitalize on opportunities? This book explores which companies and products should expand internationally, what countries offer the best... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
understand the linkage between internal operations and external markets including capital markets, customer markets, and supplier markets. To communicate effectively with these markets, managers must know how to use accounting-based tools... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
supplying superior bottleneck components while outsourcing non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this strategy will have a higher return on invested capital (ROIC) than competitors with a less modular design. Over time,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
chocolate and a pack of Camels,” the airman recalled gratefully. For his new mission in Slovakia, Green requisitioned more candy and cigarettes—and thousands and thousands of guns. Banská Bystrica had become the capital of the Slovak... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
committed to the idea of developing new understanding, deeper knowledge, and intellectual capital about business around the world," he stated. Along with increased support for global research, another visible manifestation of that... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
productive firms and entrepreneurs. The challenges of catching up were sufficiently great in the Rest that initially, minorities held significant advantages in raising capital and trust levels, which enabled them to flourish as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
as the sector faced increased competition from foreign innovation hubs, was being reshaped by the growth of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) locating R&D centers in Israel, and had to contend with a vexing shortage of human capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model was more conducive to green corporate strategies than liberal market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
Issue Focus: Innovation In a hypercompetitive global economy, creativity has never been more important for success . But how do you create a company that unleashes and capitalizes on innovation? For answers, we turned to five HBS faculty... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
consulting, he founded Warsaw-based investment firm Metropolitan Capital Solutions in 2009. Now, with his back to the former Communist headquarters, Maj strides across a newly established public plaza. Embedded in the sidewalk at his feet... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
importance of coordinating each business unit's goals in a large organization to the firm's overall strategy. "In my unit, debt capital markets, we're at a lot of decision points right now," Busch explains. "So I've taken back Cynthia's... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- August 2021
- Case
Zoom Video Communications: Building a Culture of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion During COVID-19
By: Karen G. Mills, Scott Duke Kominers, Christopher Stanton, Andy Wu, George Gonzalez and Gabriella Elanbeck
Keywords: Diversity Management; Diversity Training; Cultural Change; Cultural Diversity; Inclusion; Inclusive Growth; Inclusive Hiring; Hiring; Hiring Of Employees; Recruiting; Performance Management; Change Leadership; Race And Ethnicity; Racial Bias; Racial Disparity; Racial Injustice; Racial Tensions; Racism; Organization; Organization Process; Organization Structure; Structural/institutional Racism; Leadership And Change Management; Leadership And Managing People; Leading; Gender Bias; Discrimination; Inequalities; Inequality; Social Change; Employee Attitude Development And Empowerment; Employee Bonding; Employee Empowerment; Employee Engagement; Employee Fairness; Employee Morale; Employee Performance Management; Employee Relations; Company Culture; Company Values; Values; COVID-19 Pandemic; Demographics; Diversity; Age; Ethnicity; Gender; Business Processes; Change Management; Change; Race; Human Capital; Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Jobs and Positions; Job Interviews; Leadership; Leading Change; Management; Management Teams; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Culture; Happiness; Prejudice and Bias; Satisfaction; Equity; Identity; Leadership Style; Values and Beliefs; Technology Industry; United States
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
competition in its focus on BoP businesses. Not yet, Rodríguez responds. “We hope to see more people pouring in, because it will mean IGNIA was successful. Poverty is like an elephant,” he adds. “We’ve been trying to kill it with a BB gun, but we need the big guns that... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
Harvard Business School, the co-founders of greeting card company startup Lovepop need capital to cover the company’s operating costs and must choose between two seed financing offers. One offer is from an angel group and the other from a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne