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- 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21
motivated illusions were incorporated into our understanding of negotiations. Several promising areas of research have emerged in recent years, drawing from other disciplines and informing the field of negotiations, including work on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23
corruption. But a wholesale change to the market, designed under reformist President Obasanjo and pushed forward by President Jonathan, promised greater efficiencies and investment guided by private-sector principles including widespread... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
In his novel I Come as a Thief, Louis Auchincloss introduces us to Tony Lowder, a lawyer in his early forties. Tony and his wife have two children. He works for the New York office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, but his job is just a resting spot. Tony has... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
strengths and weaknesses of the development strategy of this small country as set forth by Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who ruled from 1995 to 2013. In 2013, for the first time in Qatar's history, Emir Hamad passed on control of the government to his son Tamim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
into account the role of contextual features. We conclude with a discussion of key themes, unresolved issues, and promising research directions. Effects of Description of Options on Parental Perinatal Decision-Making Authors:Marlyse F.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
up, through acquisition, and through education. Sheds light on the complexities of the issue, highlighting the promise and the problems China faces in its quest to become the world's innovation leader. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5
competed on the fee charged per barrel and the amount by which they promised to increase production. At the same time, the Kurdish regional government continued to sign Production Sharing Agreements with foreign companies for its oil... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
CEOs (2002) and From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (2007). While boards have improved in recent years, the speed at which they... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
investors to keep the company afloat. Jacobs’ instinct suggests that refocusing the company on its core product and runner base would be the best way forward. However, the last round was raised on the promise of a big health vision.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
promising source of potential savings for other segments of the commercial insurance market. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53250 September 14, 2017 Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin From... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
marketing as a promising promotion tool for advertisers to reach and engage with consumers cheaply and quickly via word-of-mouth. Mekanism's president is contemplating expanding its services to other advertising content and media (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
the reason this promise of authenticity works [is because of] things like at Noma, when a person with allergies comes in, they go to outrageous lengths to accommodate the person. The idea is it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience for most... View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11
Finding it difficult to avoid the second debate, the paper examines the extent to which prevailing accounts of corporate purpose (e.g., shareholder primacy, stakeholder theory, corporate citizenship) support attributing responsibilities of justice to MNCs. The paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
eventual recovery? How far could Target go in emphasizing low price—the "pay less" side of its slogan—without eroding the company's core promise of offering unique and upscale products that customers would not see at other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2311152 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 614-044 Infection Control at Massachusetts General Hospital The case explores the challenges facing Massachusetts General Hospital concerning the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16
units for Zappos' employees, and a promise that Zappos could operate as an independent subsidiary-was on the table. Zappos' financial advisor, Morgan Stanley, estimated the future equity value of an IPO to be between $650 million and $905... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7
play, but how easy is it to do business in this sector? What are the promises and pitfalls of the industry, and how well is Zane Wang, the case protagonist, navigating them? Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/912417-PDF-ENG Start-Up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
surrounding leaders and leadership). Rather, the course is designed to give students actual access to being a leader and the effective exercise of leadership. Our promise to the students is that if they honor their word to fulfill the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
with a negotiated deal at $26.50 per share in December 2004. Novel questions of corporate law are raised by the prolonged use of a poison pill against a structurally non-coercive, all-cash, fully-financed offer; as well as PeopleSoft's unprecedented Customer Assurance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
erupted both in Congress and in the press and this ruckus led DP World to promise that it would relinquish the U.S. terminals of P&O. Also contains a brief description of Dubai and its relationship to the U.S., a discussion of issues... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace