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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
department would cost you $1 million. But after you've sunk $150,000 into the new department, the question becomes whether you're prepared to ante up an additional $850,000—an amount closer to the value of your consultant's contract.... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
differences present some formidable challenges for companies and their managers. In my next project, I hope to shed some light on this murky area and also to help fill a gap in our curriculum. Historically, cultural issues have not had a central place in management... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
why that happened," says Ofek. Clocky fit the bill. In the case "Clocky: The Runaway Alarm Clock" (with Eliot Sherman) and the follow-up case, "Nanda Home: Preparing for Life after Clocky" (with Jill Avery, HBS... View Details
- October 2006 (Revised September 2014)
- Case
Summit Partners - The FleetCor Investment (A)
By: Michael J. Roberts
Part of a 3-case series in which students get to see the unfolding of due diligence on private equity (buy out) deal. In this, the A case, the deal team has negotiated a letter of intent with FleetCor, a firm that operates a fuel payment network for vehicle fleets.... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Investment; Negotiation Offer; Service Industry
Roberts, Michael J. "Summit Partners - The FleetCor Investment (A)." Harvard Business School Case 807-033, October 2006. (Revised September 2014.)
- 23 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Brand a Next-Generation Product
considered a hypothetical scenario in which a well-known firm is preparing to launch a new version of its color printer. The participants, who were split into two groups, received a list of seven successive model names. For the first... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
PublicationsCompeting through Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart Publication:In Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, edited by Giovanni Battista Dagnino. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming An abstract is unavailable at this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2017
- Op-Ed
Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs
Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
associate Arthur McCaffrey. It's also one they are passionate about and determined to solve. As they write in a new working paper that they're preparing for an academic journal, there are more than three billion people in the world who... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Better Deals Through Level II Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping to Solve Their Internal Problems
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
leadership in practice; and leadership development. Q: What are you working on next? A: Related to the study of leadership, the Dean and the HBS Division of Research generously funded two subsequent colloquia. Last year, we convened "How Can Leadership Be... View Details
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
aspects of law and the value of compliance. Let me provide an example. Two banks failed to meet the Comptroller of Currency Community Reinvestment Act requirements for lending a certain amount of money to local customers. One bank brought in its lawyer and had him... View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Four Strategies for Making Concessions
Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie's book A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System (ILR Press, 1991). The head of a manufacturing firm was preparing to initiate talks with the leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 24 Jan 2011
- HBS Case
Terror at the Taj
secured.) Nothing in the employees' training could have prepared them for such an unprecedented situation, Deshpandé says. Yet further interviews and text documents from the case provide background on the unique culture of Tata Sons, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?
stimulate debate about important issues in a community whose media were controlled at the time by one family with one point of view. It got me on a list prepared by an alumnus (and ignored by the person to whom he sent it, the President... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 19 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior
cost of college. But Beshears and his colleagues found the most cost-effective way to increase college enrollment was just to make applying for financial aid easier. A 2012 study worked with tax preparer H&R Block to pre-fill the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet
consumers. Social networks and the easy connections they facilitate are transforming social life and have helped to elect a President. They also increase productivity in the larger economy. How can we quantify the economic impact of the Internet? A recent study we... View Details
- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
Intense preparation helped Hillary Clinton command the podium in her first debate with Donald Trump in September 2016—the most-watched presidential debate in US history. In one of the debate’s most memorable moments, Clinton called out... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- October 2013 (Revised August 2016)
- Case
NOWaccount
By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman and Lauren Barley
It was September 2013, and NOWaccount Network Corporation (NOW®) co-founders John Hayes and Lara Hodgson were putting the final touches on the presentation deck for their annual shareholders' meeting. Along with co-founder Stacey Abrams, the pair had designed NOW's... View Details
Nanda, Ramana, William A. Sahlman, and Lauren Barley. "NOWaccount." Harvard Business School Case 814-048, October 2013. (Revised August 2016.)
- February 2019 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
KangaTech
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Patrick J. Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin Hyun Paik and Steven Randazzo
On a warm January afternoon in 2019, Steve Saunders, Dave Scerri, Carl Dilena, and Nick Haslam (see Exhibit 1 for biographies), co-founders of KangaTech, wrapped up the latest round of discussions about the future direction of their sports-technology start-up. Focused... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Technology Commercialization; Prototype; Business Startups; Technological Innovation; Sports; Health; Commercialization; Research and Development; Decision Making; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Sports Industry; Health Industry; Australia
Lakhani, Karim R., Patrick J. Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin Hyun Paik, and Steven Randazzo. "KangaTech." Harvard Business School Case 619-049, February 2019. (Revised August 2019.)
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
"I've heard many war stories," says Harvard Business School associate professor Connie Bagley, reflecting on conversations with former students who have started business ventures. To prepare current students for the HBS Business... View Details
Keywords: by Staff