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- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
opportunity for success; and (4) perhaps most damning, the original evidence that the courts relied upon to conclude that Section 203 gave bidders a meaningful opportunity for success was seriously flawed-so flawed, in fact, that even... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
Center researcher Namrata Arora uncover a complicated mix of piracy and plagiarism that harm not only Hollywood's efforts at success in the Indian market, but local Bollywood companies as well. Iyer says the case can help students and... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
get "more bang for their buck" from their board members' time? The answer to all three questions is yes—if what a company expects of its board members is redefined and if the meeting process is redesigned so that the board's time is primarily spent on helping... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008
Hurricane Katrina as a catalyst for the transformation of the public education system in New Orleans, President Sarah Usdin and CEO Matt Candler must adapt their strategy to respond to a continuously shifting local context. By 2008,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
HBS Alumni Making a Difference in the World—co-authored by HBS Professor Emeritus Howard Stevenson, HBS project director Shirley Spence, and writer Russ Banham—shares more than 200 stories of HBS graduates who have taken steps toward tackling social challenges. For... View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
of DaVita William W. George, Natalie KindredHarvard Business School Case 410-065 Kent Thiry, CEO of dialysis provider DaVita, is considering how to integrate employees from recently acquired Gambro Healthcare without damaging DaVita's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
outreach; a program of employee training that helps first-rung employees move from part-time work in high school to senior management. That’s what Taco Bell does. But any manager can identify a way of meeting a need that can be the seed for a business. Medtronic’s... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
success and failure. Mentor capitalists put their own money into a startup and try to provide coaching and expertise. "They want to give back," Leonard said, "but mostly they're people who don't want to live the 24/7 View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
greater success in their collaborative innovation efforts. We found many firms mistakenly applied an "outsourcing" mindset to collaboration efforts which, in turn, led to three critical errors: First, they focused solely on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-103.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (A) Harvard Business School Case 107-055 In 1996, CEO Fernando Garcia Checa wanted to make customer analytics a part of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53855 "Machine Learning Approaches to Facial and Text Analysis: An Application to CEO Oral Communication By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Dan Wang, Natalie A. Carlson, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
financial terms-toward the high end of Zappos' estimated market value. Hsieh and Lin, Zappos' CEO and COO, respectively, knew that much of Zappos' growth, and hence its value, had been due to the company's strong culture and obsessive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
manufacturer to a world leader in R&D, marketing, and design, with a brand more valuable than Pepsi, Nike, or American Express. Fewer still would have predicted the success of the path it has taken. For two decades now, Samsung has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
incremental shifts towards sustainability to abandoning for-profit business entirely and re-wilding and conserving millions of acres of lands in Latin America. The book's distinctiveness lies in the use of original empirical data and the willingness to engage with both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
especially from a consumer health and wellness standpoint. It's where we know the health care industry is moving. Q: Apple has always been known for innovative design. Have they succeeded to do that with the Apple Watch? A: Several of the watch View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
California, and the Rothman Institute (RI), a private-practice physician group in metropolitan Philadelphia, illustrate three keys for successful bundling: excellent data on outcomes and costs, proactive management of the patient, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
co-creation of markets and value, multinationals without firm-specific advantages, and born-global firms. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50242 November 13, 2015 Harvard Business Review If CEOs Care About... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
my new book Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies, I explore how purpose-driven leaders find success by going beyond focusing only on shareholders and customers and also considering their employees, communities,... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
and Germany to the detriment of the rest, or was it a pan-European deal to the benefit of all? As the case chronicles, the success of Nord Stream depended on the ability of its creators to ensure that the latter view prevailed over the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 5, 2006
prevailing public health system, while operating under the same revenue structure (per capita payments from the Ministry of Health). A highly visible landmark initiative of the Medical School of the Catholic University, success would... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne