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  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

particular movement. What we’ve tried to do is realize that advertising has a different sort of power and perhaps even a responsibility. In true marketing, you can change pop culture to create a world that’s more aligned with your brand.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Strategy and Business, and Business Horizons, in the past two decades. Topics covered include marketing and business strategy, managing product lines, pricing, managing the point of sales,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

self-report of a licensee. Self-reporting gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Profile

James Reinhart

One of the toughest challenges for young entrepreneurs is figuring out the most effective strategy to turn a good idea into a great venture. A bad decision early in the game, such as sticking to an original concept despite evidence that... View Details
  • 05 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)

focused on building a go-to market strategy for an ed-tech company that had bases in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria, but was looking to expand to Ghana. “I did a lot of interviews with local teachers and government officials along with... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Technology; Entrepreneurship
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

focused on getting news out to media outlets, today's CCO has become an integral part of any enterprise-company, corporation, governmental, and nongovernmental entity. Today's CCO is responsible for internal and external communication; with creating and implementing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

with key players from the frontlines of digital change, The Content Trap aims to reorient strategy and offers lessons for businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals trying to figure out what to do next. Companies that flourish in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

it faced huge capital expenditures associated with constructing its manufacturing facilities. The company was at a crossroads: it had to decide whether to partner with IBM or align with other firms as it tried to keep up with Intel.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

resulting currency position tends to rise in value when equity markets fall. This strategy works well for investment horizons of one month to one year. In the past 15 years the risk-minimizing demand for the dollar appears to have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

articulated the "principal-agent theory."— Clayton Christensen AG: I think your question was asked in the context of business strategy. In that context, there is a problem between the scientific approach to strategy and the... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

motivate employees to learn, may only yield performance benefits among those who are already highly engaged and motivated. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55888 In Search of Organizational Alignment... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

should move beyond salary and traditional cash rewards to place greater emphasis on non-pecuniary, tangible and intangible rewards and recognition initiatives. We further highlight the importance of aligning rewards with universal... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Kash Rangan

defining what measures of social return it is looking for. In some instances social and economic returns could be correlated, but in many cases they won’t. If you are looking for a social and not an economic return, then loyalty to the program rather than an exit View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

differences, proposes a sequence of stratagems that may enable entrepreneurs to alter strategy while portraying faithfulness to enduring aims. Our theoretical framework posits that for ventures, reorientation without penalty may depend on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-403 Shareholder Activists and Corporate Strategy By 2015, there had been an upsurge in activist shareholders arguing for radical changes in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

what could be done both through innovative business strategies and through innovative institutional arrangements." According to Paine, many HBS students share the concerns voiced in the book and aspire to the type of entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • Web

Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 16 Jun 2023 Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them Becca Carnahan & Christopher Moore Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging Recruiting Advice Recruiting View Details
  • 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

Amy, Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Peter Glick, Susan Crotty, Jihye Chong, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Four studies tested whether cultural values moderate the content of gender stereotypes, such that male stereotypes more closely align with... View Details
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

is asked to investigate the matter and to decide what, if anything, to do about it. The case raises issues in aligning strategy and sales systems, performance evaluation criteria, and on-going performance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace