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  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208071 Fortis Healthcare (A) Harvard Business School Case 308-030 Should the Indian hospital chain enter the medical travel market or should it focus on expansion in the under-served Indian market? Is its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

Negotiation Strategy: Pattern Recognition Game Harvard Business School Note 908-015 In negotiation, correctly identifying your counterpart's strategy is vital. Only then can you constructively influence their behavior—or adapt View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

there is action. At the same time it would be a wild dream to believe that private sector investment is going to save the world. Unless the appropriate government participates actively as an investor, regulator, or guarantor, there will... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2001
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Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

it?" But cultivate it in the appropriate arena, or you will trip it up. There is truly a need for self-challenge. There is a sense that we must improve the fundamental actions of business in a global setting at the moment. Capitalism... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

investors, customers, and employees. The approach aims to help managers identify relevant harms, analyze their responsibility for harms, and determine an appropriate response. The approach also considers limits on how far managers ought... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

between the Institutional Shareholder Services and management regarding the appropriateness of the CEO's compensation plan. Was ISS right that Qualcomm CEO's pay was inflated and justified by benchmarking to aspirational peers? Or was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

performance. To perform the modified Dupont Decomposition, students learn how to reformat and condense the balance sheet and income statement to separately measure profitability arising from operating activities and financing activities. Students also see how excess... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

appropriate staffing, and store layout. Everyone in retailing knows this, but basics are boring, and it's easy to lose sight of them. The U.S. automotive industry offers a cautionary tale of the perils of not tending to the basics. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto
  • 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

central bank to abandon its zero interest rate policy, which had been in place for years, and raise rates to 0.5%. The Bank of Japan was eager to increase them to more "normal" levels to exert effective monetary policy. Yet the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

investment advice for long-term investors. I have already argued that the recommendation that conservative investors should simply hold more cash might not be appropriate for long-term conservative investors, because reinvestment risk... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

to win it. Business managers and "creatives" disagree on the appropriate course of action. In debating the decision, staff members confront fundamental issues about who they want to be as a firm and how firms that rely on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29

We prove that if a group of women employs truncation strategies or weakly successfully manipulates, then all other women weakly benefit and all men are weakly harmed. We show that our results do not appropriately generalize to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2009
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Where is Home for the Global Firm?

try to explain what considerations can help managers choose the appropriate legal home, financial home, and home(s) for managerial talent. Finally, I consider the implications for policymakers as firms make these decisions. Q: How did you... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands

value. Their owners and initial investors will, just as naturally, want to find some appropriate exit point (or, at least, liquidity event). And, for a variety of reasons, being acquired (through a well-designed acquisition agreement!)... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage
  • 19 Sep 2011
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Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

underwriting risk in European freeze is poor. You shouldn't do diversification that, after risk adjusting, is guaranteed to lose money." Appropriate diversification is just one item on the list of things reinsurers should be doing to... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services
  • 22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22

issues concerning 363 sales and the appropriate role of government entities in restructurings. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210022-PDF-ENG TeamLease: Putting India to Work (Il) Legally Tarun Khanna and Anjali... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006

they pit business against society, when in reality the two are interdependent. Second, they pressure companies to think of corporate social responsibility in generic ways instead of in the way most appropriate to their individual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

ideas. Assignments to projects can make a big difference, too. You want people to have work that they're going to find appropriately challenging — not so far out of their skill range that they just can't do anything, but certainly... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

Revolves around how to assess the market in the absence of hard data, and what would be the appropriate entry points. Illuminates how relationship-driven investments can be the foundation of a long-term investment strategy. Issues also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

case examines an exciting new approach to health care that will help care providers identify when hospice services are the appropriate type of care for patients. The company, Medalogix, already has a product on the market that uses a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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