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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Roshan human resources director, receives frequent death threats via letters delivered to her home, email, and text messages. (Ten percent of Roshan’s operating budget is devoted to security, which includes 500 full-time guards.) In the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
the disinterested shares. This article also identifies ways that the Delaware courts can encourage the use of these more potent devices when appropriate: through the threat of entire fairness review, the application of Revlon duties, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
the response. The small price effect, compared to the large message effect, can be explained by two countervailing effects of a lower price: an inducement to settle early, but a lower threat of escalation. Furthermore, acknowledging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
competitive threats Changing consumer demands Low barriers to entry Many niche opportunities As I've noted above, leaders who are successful in industries over a long period of time have become skilled at either adapting to or influencing... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
were the strengths and challenges facing this model? How would the model evolve in the future? And how would new, similar collaboration models surfacing at other major pharmaceutical companies pose a threat to the Pfizer model? Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
their land was a precious gift from God he had intended to keep for his mother. But over time, the land had been under intermittent threat from without and within. In 2017, the Bitfury Group, which Valery Vavilov had co-founded, had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA
poses a direct threat to the health or safety of any person or has seriously disrupted others in the student’s residential community or academic environment; and (ii) either the student’s threatening, self-destructive, or disruptive... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
Business School Supplement 613-041 Rainer Ohnheiser, the president of Carl Zeiss's Business Group Industrial Metrology (IMT), was focused on the threat that in-line metrology posed to Carl Zeiss IMT's core business. Historically,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
possible, to turn that understanding into wisdom,” writes Koehn. Doing one’s homework, she adds, is also important—especially when something you write draws the ire of a powerful industry. Before Silent Spring appeared as a book in the fall of 1962, criticism and View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
well how this type of motivation seeks the maintenance of a favorable state of affairs. When the company perceived on the horizon the emergence of potential threats looming from public authorities and the third sector, it strove to change... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
$13.7 billion, was adding 600 stores a year and expanding into Europe from its U.S. base. Rolf Erikson, Masson's replacement, impressed few analysts and questions lingered about H&M's ability to maintain its rate of expansion. What did new CEO Rolf Erikson need to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
are asking, "What more can we do?" There's a search for better answers. MP: That said, there's an almost universal view that our federal political system is one of the greatest threats to our economic future—because of its... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
decimated Faber-Castell’s slide rule business in the 1970s, and computer aided design technology undermined the company’s manual drafting tools in the 1980s. With each new threat the Count had to decide whether to adapt to new... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
threats to intellectual property (IP) and models the interactive impact of modularity and state-sanctioned IP rights on these threats. It identifies strategies for capturing value in so-called "open systems" in which IP is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
greenhouse gas emissions. Purchase the case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608055 Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One Harvard Business School Case 109-001 An early adopter of Enterprise Risk Management, energy giant Hydro One... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
and acquisitions. As Allaire and his fellow executives weighed those options, they confronted competitive threats in multiple quarters, but particularly from YouTube, a hugely popular video-sharing site that online search giant Google had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
culture. In May 2017, Udi Mokady, founder, chairman, and CEO, debated how best to drive growth. He mulled over whether he should stay the course and remain focused on providing best-of-breed PAM for enterprises, both on-premise and in the cloud, or expand into new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
the concept of threat rigidity to the class and explore some of the team behaviors that result from this condition. Book: http://www.amazon.com/Group-Communication-Analysis-Appreciation-Application/dp/0757582958/ref=cm_cmu_up_thanks_hdr... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
accessibility and attractiveness of unauthorized content replication. The threat of p2p is not different in nature, but of much larger scale as it does not require the exchange of a physical support. As a result, the impact of p2p... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
in the early 1760s who owned an estimated 100 slaves—received death threats and was spit on in public. He did not win reelection to the council and found himself shut out of work opportunities in the area. "It was time to return to... View Details