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  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

leading cause of failure in startups. This book offers solutions. Purchase the book: http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Foundation-Entrepreneurship/dp/0691149135/ The Organization of Firms Across Countries... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

capacity for innovation, can and often should be structured as artists structure their work. Managers should look to collaborative artists rather than to more traditional management models if they want to... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
  • 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

Managing such a firm in the era of globalization posed enormous challenges. The book covers the company's strategies and provides compelling evidence of its decision making, marketing, brand management, innovation, acquisition strategies,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006

examine the racial diversity initiatives of eight professional service firms in an effort to identify the organizational elements that are critical to the success of diversity initiatives and differentiate successful from less successful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-064.pdf Comparing the Cash Policies of Public and Private Firms By: Farre-Mensa, Joan Abstract—I document that public U.S. firms hold twice as much cash... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

Rohit Daniel Wadhwani's research and teaching interests lie in business and financial history and public policy. He received his B.A. with honors from Yale College in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a management consultant with APM Inc. (now part of CSC), a... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services
  • 22 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

of the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) in SanFrancisco. Created by George Roberts, one of the founders of the New Yorkinvestment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., REDF has been a pioneer indeveloping VC-like ways of... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
  • 02 Jan 2012
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Most Popular Articles of 2011

that shows how CSR can make it easier for firms to secure financing for new projects. Research was conducted by George Serafeim and Beiting Cheng of Harvard Business School and Ioannis Ioannou of the London Business School. Key concepts... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

biotech company than an Internet start-up," remarks Pisano. "In biotech, one big drug will make you very profitable for a long time, but the percentage of drugs that make it to market is so low that it remains a risky proposition." Profitable View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 14 Apr 2003
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Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

its trek through that? Grove: Our last-generation growth has been fueled by a fairly major structural transformation of the computing industry from mainframe, centralized computing to distributed computing, PCs. And that defined the View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology
  • 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016

customers rather than take possession of and responsibility for the products or services in question, they have inherently low cost structures and fat gross margins. They are highly defensible once established, owing to network effects.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

of Wall Street rather than developing nations. And the crisis raises questions about the development policies of Asian nations: Did too-close "crony" relations between politicians and owners of major banks or firms pave the way... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

Christopher Stanton Abstract—Wage rigidity creates real and financial frictions, though the real-world drivers of rigidities remain largely unstudied. We use staggered commission reductions at a sales firm to estimate effects on worker... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

Feedback Shapes Social Networks By: Green, Paul, Jr., Francesca Gino, and Bradley Staats Abstract—Many organizations employ interpersonal feedback processes as a structured means of informing and motivating employee improvement. Ample... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

performed strongly in the late 1980s, the mid-1990s, and the 2000s. Large RLBOs that are backed by private equity firms with more capital under management perform better. We also find the so-called quick flips—when private equity View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2007
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First Look: May 29, 2007

Business School Case 707-474 In 2006, newspaper firms in developed markets were severely threatened on three fronts: the growth of online news, online classified advertising, and free newspapers. Schibsted, however, had managed to cope... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Aug 2001
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Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

Goals for influencing government should flow directly from the analytic frameworks that companies use to develop business strategies. As Michael Porter noted in Competitive Strategy, "No structural analysis is complete without a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

piracy strategically to improve its market position? From a managerial perspective, these are significant questions. If it turns out that OSS will incontestably displace traditional software, software firms need to adapt as quickly as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

contest. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54708 June 2018 Management Science Personal and Social Usage: The Origins of Active Customers and Ways to Keep Them Engaged By: Lee, Clarence, Elie Ofek, and Thomas Steenburgh Abstract—We study... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

and suburban areas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52059 Financing Payouts By: Farre-Mensa, Joan, Roni Michaely, and Martin Schmalz Abstract—We study the extent to which firms rely on the capital... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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