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  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

nation has contributed importantly to the success. His challenge is to allocate resources among new areas to explore for petroleum and new sources of energy and to develop managers with the capability of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

participation in a comparative cost study, management at Springfield Hospital, known for its heavy focus on operational excellence, become aware of opportunities for further improvement. Analysis of the differences in costs, uses, and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

crisis strikes, what will become of it in the longer term? By the same token, allocating resources to long-term exploration might incur the risk of precipitating the fall. Egalitarianism and International... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

launched major changes in its R&D organization, which focus on decentralizing and externalizing R&D, as well as revamping the resource allocation process to parallel more of a venture capital-based... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

appropriate data. The U.S. film industry deploys two distinct allocations of property rights, which differentially affect marginal returns on a particular class of investments. In many cases, films are both produced and distributed by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

determining the expected return of, and hence the optimal allocation to, less persistent, more turnover-intensive characteristics. The mean-variance optimal tilts toward value, size, and profitability are roughly equal to each other and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Bad Times for Business

directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the rest of the world looked to as a capital market that effectively allocated View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top Trading Cycles (TTC) in a real-life allocation problem. Since TTC was originally devised for settings in which agents have endowments, there is no formal rationale for TTC in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

HBS - Financials | From the CFO

HBP, and HBS Online, augmented by revenue from MBA tuition and alumni gifts, generates a value-sustaining circle of funding. These financial resources enable the School to execute on its strategic priorities, regardless of the economic... View Details
  • 11 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time

synthesize our learnings about federal programs, and we invited our new volunteers to listen in on some of our client conversations. When asked about growing their operations, Shrey notes that “we put a lot of thought into how we allocate... View Details
  • 24 Mar 2023
  • News

Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey

outside the area. "We lost five people," he said. "It was heartbreaking, and it's hard to talk about." Then, he said, the bank immediately mobilized its many resources to help. "Our building was confirmed to be safe, so we decided to open... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/313016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 614-004 Exploration vs. Exploitation This module note introduces James March's concept of exploration and exploitation, and the management challenge of balancing the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

faced the challenge of convincing buyers to pay a premium price. Their products originated from a wild resource under government regulations which limited the size of the catch by both the industry and Clearwater. In recent years,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

environments," Sahlman says. "It is an integrative course in which managers can learn to use the financial perspective to inform resource acquisition and allocation decisions." Today the Entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

base helps attract merchants, the platform’s bargaining power may motivate some merchants to work with its smaller competitors, over which they have more influence on price setting. Our counterfactual results show that the allocation of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

806-148 Describes the sixth and final module of the Harvard Business School MBA second-year elective course Legal Aspects of Management. This module deals with the way firms should approach business risks in order to avoid legal liability and how firms can use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

are more effective for partisans, candidate advertising is more effective for non-partisans, whereas outside advertising is more effective for partisan voters. Our findings can help strategists efficiently allocate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

people) or not served at all. Third, the products and services they offer are simpler and cheaper than alternatives, but recipients view them as good enough. Fourth, they bring in resources in ways that initially seem unattractive to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

and the established literatures on resource allocation and incumbent spin-outs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51520 Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2018
  • Teaching Note

City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
This teaching note assists in the classroom instruction of the HBS No. 318-089, “City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact.” It offers to instructors a case summary and analysis, along with student preparation questions and a guide for classroom discussion of the case.... View Details
Keywords: Scaling; Education Entrepreneurship; Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
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