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- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
changes in financing constraints. Cases & Course Materials Avid Radiopharmaceuticals and Lighthouse Capital Partners Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Ann LeamonHarvard Business School Case 810-054 In fall 2008, a venture lender must decide whether to make a loan to Avid, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
nonprofits should write mission statements that can be relied upon as a promise to deliver specified social value. Why is this important? A: It is important for nonprofits to be clear about what they are claiming to accomplish for two... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
years, I've been looking at innovations, trying to understand why and when seemingly promising innovations succeed or fail in the marketplace. Basically, I find that successful innovations tend to minimize the behavior change they demand... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
Rockville, MD-based Celera. One of the biggest hurdles for popular understanding of such research, he said, is the fear of individuals that their privacy is going to be invaded. "I think that's a very unfortunate thing, because there's a lot of View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
inception of a promising venture lay the foundations for its eventual ruin. The Founder's Dilemmas is the first book to examine the early decisions by entrepreneurs that can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
to unaccounted capital flight. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAntegren: A Beacon of Hope Harvard Business School Case 408-025 The CEO of Biogen Idec faces a set of difficult decisions regarding a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
set-in-stone deadline. So far, the negotiation seems to be going well—the procurement manager communicated the order's specs, and you promised your company could fill them. When the discussion turns to price, you give what you believe to... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize just a fraction of the financial performance promised in their strategic plans. It doesn't have to be that way, maintain Robert Kaplan and David Norton... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
by the interaction of partner firms that does not necessarily accrue to any of them. The extent of "ambivalent value" is unclear, but its persistence, despite changing structural market features, promises to help sustain... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
we identify core insights about how firms compete against one another in established markets. Based on our evaluation, we argue that a promising research opportunity for strategy lies in exploring how firms strategically interact in new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
became. With his eyes on the future, he drastically pruned the company's product line, jettisoning items that held little promise and concentrating on data processing. The most important decision any company ever makes is what markets it... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
promising source of potential savings for other segments of the commercial insurance market. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53250 September 14, 2017 Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin From... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
(fracking) promised an abundance of accessible, cheap, domestically produced natural gas, but the cost to the environment remained a point of debate. As incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama faced Republican opponent Mitt Romney in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2008, participants were placed into one of three conditions—in the first case, people merely promised to lose 4 pounds a month; in the second, they wagered up to $90 of their own money,... View Details
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
acquisition process. Reluctance to establish more appropriate incentives has been a serious deficiency in most DoD improvement programs during the past five decades. Contractors should be rewarded with higher profits for complying with schedules, satisfying View Details
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
Rather, it is about incremental changes that promise to improve your work-life and your work in ways that make them notably better. Creating Change Where No One Could Even Imagine It I chose to conduct the original experiment at The... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
each warrants. A bank, for instance, might assign the greatest amount of protection to the database that stores its customers' financial information. For a pharmaceutical company, it might be the research servers that hold data on View Details
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
so doing, introduce a set of new research questions to examine. We believe that these alternative questions offer great promise for understanding and, ultimately, guiding possible corporate social initiatives. We conclude the discussion... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
the reason this promise of authenticity works [is because of] things like at Noma, when a person with allergies comes in, they go to outrageous lengths to accommodate the person. The idea is it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience for most... View Details