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- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
son of the founder, realizes that major operational and financial changes are required to maintain the restaurant’s long-term viability. This case is intended to provide students with a better understanding of the personal, professional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
choose not to be in those roles at all. And she actually influences what scripts are being developed and how women are going to be portrayed in them. In the interview she talks about how traditional cinema was objectifying women but she becomes one of the movers in... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
changing competitive landscape, consumers who may not have considered buying a GM vehicle over the past decade may now be inclined to do so again. What the company has done in rationalizing the number of brands in its portfolio has been a... View Details
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
development, incentives, people management, developing a performance culture, and sustaining that culture in the face of inevitable market changes that are often outside the control of the selling company. And it's increasingly a bigger... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
of the variation in industry imports from China and changes in federal spending) and two supply-side ones (TFP shocks and variation in knowledge/ideas coming from foreign patenting). In each case, we find substantial propagation of these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder return. Beverage industry firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
framework for understanding the links between manufacturing and innovation that will enable them to make better outsourcing decisions. They also detail how government must change its support of basic and applied scientific research and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
on Balanced Scorecard Commentaries Author:Robert S. Kaplan Publication:Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 8, no. 4 (2012) Abstract This paper provides the author's insights about five papers written in this volume about his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
network, Publicis Groupe launched VivaKi, a new company-wide digital platform, to spearhead the firm's total transformation. But since the June 2008 launch, the global economy had taken a turn for the worse. Could Levy, Kenny, and other leaders View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
accountability at the project and policy levels since the early 1990s, particularly through the establishment and enforcement of social and environmental safeguards and complaint and response mechanisms. But there remain major shortfalls. In addition, there has been... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
"aware that business practices changed faster than academia could hope to capture in any sort of grand theoretical system," Cruikshank observes, "HBS professors tended to talk in terms of 'currently useful... View Details
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
worth more. But often these contracts have sharp points at which the curve changes direction all at once, which can produce odd incentives. Even more strikingly, many of the compensation functions have jumps—sell just one more unit and... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
lasting changes in the lives of people and their societies. Rather, some organizations would be better off measuring shorter-term outputs or individual outcomes. Funders such as foundations and impact investors are better positioned to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
corruption. But a wholesale change to the market, designed under reformist President Obasanjo and pushed forward by President Jonathan, promised greater efficiencies and investment guided by private-sector principles including widespread... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- January 2025
- Case
Hebbia: Redefining Productivity for Knowledge Workers Using AI
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Minoshka Narayan
In early 2025, George Sivulka, founder and CEO of Hebbia, reflected on the company’s rapid ascent as a pioneer in GenAI-powered productivity tools for knowledge workers. With its proprietary technology, Hebbia had redefined information retrieval and analysis and earned... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Customer Relationship Management; AI and Machine Learning; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Service Delivery; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Minoshka Narayan. "Hebbia: Redefining Productivity for Knowledge Workers Using AI." Harvard Business School Case 125-075, January 2025.
- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
brilliant book, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, about successful executives hitting points of friction as they grow, requiring changes in their behavior in order to continue to succeed. I often coach my entrepreneurs to assess... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
strongly lean toward those. Question: How important is advertising for big companies? Cohen: Advertising is a lifeblood for corporations, even though how they’re doing it changes over time. They used to use billboards and newspapers; now,... View Details
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
a new research stream, and there is a low probability you will get funded in a new area. You may be fired. In short, your career is in danger of total meltdown. That is the real cost of our randomized model of research support in the United States, in which a View Details
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
managers must take a significant role in pushing for a multilateral agreement on foreign direct investment, or at least become active in promoting lesser changes that will lead to more balance and security in the current system. Otherwise... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate
influential books and articles on marketing, was to "grab business people by the lapels, shake them, and say, 'Wake up!'," Tedlow said. You couldn't ignore Levitt, and what he said, the way he said it, and the questions he posed View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne