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- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
providing a warm, welcoming, personalized experience at every level, from executives and managers to housekeeping and wait staff. And Patagonia has demonstrated its pro-environment stance by continually re-examining its practices—from View Details
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by Lane Lambert
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
use business to improve society comes from “some moral compass and a calling of, ‘I really have to do this,’” says Khanna. “This translates into leaving money on the table in the short term. But that money on the table turns out to buy an...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
This case presents three short vignettes, with three fictitious organizations, to facilitate a discussion around these important decisions. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
upstream units to sell intermediate goods to other sector firms. We demonstrate that the 10 largest electronics firms had two-way vertically permeable boundaries while almost no firms in the automotive sector had adopted that practice....
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
Lessons from Nike's Playbook By: Lynn S. Paine One surprising role of Nike's corporate responsibility committee is to provide support for innovation. More and more companies recognize the importance of corporate responsibility to their long-term success—and yet the...
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- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
Hedge funds, like venture funds, do not reveal performance. But they should be required to do so. Hedge funds don't really hedge; mainly they sell short as well as buy long; and they are very aggressive in...
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
Psychological Science Psychologically Informed Implementations of Sugary Drink Portion Limits By: John, Leslie, Grant Donnelly, and Christina Roberto Abstract—In 2012, the New York City Board of Health prohibited restaurants from selling...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
both longs and shorts following losses and a weaker tendency to add risk following gains. By differentiating between position level, portfolio level, and aggregate cross-portfolio losses in currency investments, we demonstrate that this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
short horizon and the volatility of their stock, this does not apply to the association between short-termism and cost of capital. We interpret this as evidence that our short-termism measure captures a dimension of non-diversifiable risk...
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Events - Business History
settings. There was also a short mid-session break during which CEM video clips were played. The speakers (in order) were Chinmay Tumbe (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India), Jeffrey Fear (University of Glasgow, Britain),...
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In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
207-084 Selling Biovail Short By: Malcolm P. Baker, Chris Lombardi & Aldo Sesia NOV 2006 | Harvard Business School Case 207-071 Fortress Investment Group By: Malcolm P. Baker, Carlos M. Galvez & James Quinn...
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Research - Private Capital Project
2022 Case Grupo Big Exit: Options for Advent and Walmart By: Victoria Ivashina, Ruth Costas and Pedro Levindo After conducting an impressive turnaround in Walmart’s subsidiary in Brazil, Private Equity firm Advent International has to decide how to exit this...
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- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
First, the supply chain in health care is a mess. There are so many intermediaries selling to other people, and Amazon has done extremely well by streamlining the supply chain. So they must be thinking that the current insurers and other...
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- 31 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher
John Osher is one of those casually and spectacularly successful people who make serial entrepreneurship look like a cakewalk. He began racking up wins at an early age—starting and selling both a vintage clothing store and an earring...
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- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
using combinations of four integers, about 4 billion possible combinations. The problem: Internet growth is so dramatic that potential IPv4 addresses are running short on supply. A new standard called IPv6 will solve the problem with...
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- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
economists worry a lot about how a country can increase its GDP growth rate, how higher growth of output can be achieved over the long term, and how we can make sure that in the short term total output isn't unduly volatile (with...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online
standards, while creating and claiming greater value in future negotiations: whether you will be buying or selling a home, getting a new job, working with international business partners, or anything in between. Matt C.US Navy What You...
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
better in my memory. Dustin BrownWorking in real estate in Indiana while applying to MBA programsBS, Selling & Sales Management, Minor, Organizational Leadership and Supervision Certificate, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Experienced...
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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
like that was explicitly designed to engage the drives, the skills, the smarts, and the emotions of such people in a collaborative effort to design, produce, and sell products and services of value to the wider world? After we have...
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
no longer hurt American interests—its incidence would fall on Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese manufacturers trying to sell into the highly competitive American market. Q: President Jimmy Carter ceded formal control. Why did our interest...
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