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- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
programming challenge. We find that greater amounts of new code and novel recombinations of others' code, in a contest submission, increases both the probability of achieving top rank and the subsequent reuse by others in their own... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
you have about the business is the main way an investor figures out whether or not you have the people skills to actually make a plan happen.” The judges’ rankings are unveiled at an awards ceremony in late April. Each of the four teams... View Details
- July 2024
- Case
Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO
By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc
In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Investment Banking; Stock Options; Financial Markets; Initial Public Offering; Institutional Investing; Price Bubble; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Internet and the Web; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Agreements and Arrangements; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Rank and Position; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Happiness; Reputation; Status and Position; Well-being; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Canada
Satchu, Reza, Tom Quinn, and Andrew Kosc. "Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO." Harvard Business School Case 825-037, July 2024.
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
founder and CEO sees performance measurement systems as vital for cultivating the competitive, innovative workforce necessary for Dovernet to win in a fiercely competitive industry. Dovernet uses quarterly top-down reviews and stack View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
began to take shape, one rooted in the awareness that you can't manage creativity—you can only manage for creativity. A number of themes emerged: The leader's job is not to be the source of ideas but to encourage and champion ideas. Leaders must tap the imagination of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors and which are considered most important. We use survey data from 967 analysts ranking 837 companies to judge how their forecasts are related to evaluations of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
ranked the world's second-largest consumer of energy. This note provides background on China's energy industry and provides details on China's leading state-owned energy companies, production and consumption statistics, and government... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
line and on improving the quality of patient care. In 2005, Porter developed a multiyear learning partnership with MD Anderson, regularly ranked as the top cancer treatment center in the United States. The organization radically... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
setting where compensation is highly interdependent—that is, subjective rewards or penalties for some employees cause others to miss out on those rewards and penalties. In our field setting, managerial discretion results in publicly observable discrepancies between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
truly customer-centric, Kristy and I have to be working hand in glove,” says Flatley. It’s something she learned as she rose through the ranks of PepsiCo: The people who own the insights, she says, are closest to the consumer. “I see her... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
1976, it went public in 2002, and was still managed by its two founding partners in 2006. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707012 Cleveland Clinic Harvard Business School Case 607-013 Cleveland Clinic is consistently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
a thriving organization of significant scale. Gordon M. Binder (MBA '62) played a key role in just such a transition at Amgen, which now ranks as the largest biotechnology firm in the world. A California-based firm that discovers,... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209082 Design Thinking and Innovation at Apple Harvard Business School Note 609-066 Describes Apple's approach to innovation, management, and design thinking. For several years, Apple has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
Tedlow, a noted business historian on the HBS faculty and the MBA class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration. His latest book (Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American) is a biography of Andy Grove, a founding father of Intel, which has gone from startup... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
majority, leadership ranks remain male-dominated. The persistence of these inequalities begs the question: Why haven’t we made more progress? In Glass Half Broken, Colleen Ammerman and HBS professor Boris Groysberg reveal the pervasive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
contemplated becoming a professor, but was persuaded to stay on at the School. In 1963, he completed his DBA and joined the faculty. Over the next seventeen years, he moved up through the School’s ranks — teaching finance, writing cases,... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
rapidly replicate improved business processes throughout an organization, thereby not only increasing productivity but also market share and market value. We then empirically document a substantial increase in turbulence starting in the 1990s, as measured by the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Paper Enrollment in this course, as of June 6, is now by standard lottery utilizing EC Toolkit. Please be sure to rank this course in EC Toolkit during the summer follow-up window which opens on June 24. Class... View Details
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an Economic Strategy to Put Innovation Back on Track James McNerney Jr. Chairman, President, & CEO, The Boeing Company The Rankings Game You have to know how it’s played to make sense of how leading publications evaluate business schools... View Details