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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
all citizens of our country have access to healthcare and other necessities of life.” MAY 2 Garuda Aerospace, led by CEO Agnishwar Jayaprakash (PLDA 25, 2018), is employing his company’s drones to deliver vaccines and medical supplies.... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
asking when the set of strategic decisions are exactly the decisions a CEO should control to give effective guidance. It finally shows how a CEO's vision, in the sense of a strong belief, about strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
spillover effect to the private sector. The authors studied what happened after municipal governments in California adopted policies that required public (but not private) building renovations and new construction to build "green," which... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
just-released first book, Conquering the Chaos: Win in India, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press), Venkatesan's recipe for success includes doing things that most managers and CEOs aren't trained to do, namely, getting on the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
business; last October, he was named chairman and CEO of Marsh Crisis Consulting, a unit of Marsh & McLennan that provides a full range of services to corporate clients to help them avoid, plan for, and manage crises such as natural... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
an acquisition is to fundamentally change a company's growth trajectory. In those deals, the acquirer uses the target's business model as a platform for growth. Because the business models with the most transformative potential are often disruptive, they can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
addressing customer needs, and themselves. There is no room under channel stewardship for non-value-adding partners; an effective steward must weed them out. By effectively meeting current needs and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
effectively in global markets, the American-US Airways combination was, in several important respects, made possible by Chapter 11 and the legal and financial tools it offers to companies in need. The deal still faces significant... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
Jobs were not born as great strategists: Jobs almost bankrupted the company during his first stint with Apple .It was their ability to learn—about strategy, execution, and new domains within their own businesses—that made them such View Details
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
profiles of their friends, who didn’t even use the application, were accessed by Cambridge Analytica who was able harvest information for 87 million people—many of whom had never authorized it. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg later said... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
the most turbulent periods in the history of corporate America. Bill Donaldson’s glittering résumé reflects the career of a man who has spent more than 45 years at the highest levels of business, government, and academia. Consider some of the highlights: cofounder,... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
and complementary effects across channels to provide sales forecasting, promotion planning, and customer relationship management guidance to multichannel managers. We investigate three contingencies in a sales analysis of a leading U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
minimizes a convex approximation of this metric. We further develop an exponential penalty approach and show that its computational performance is far superior and its trade-off between delay and fairness compares favorably. In our results, we demonstrate the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 14
variation in revenues per capita was both a product of the variation in natural endowments (i.e., the fact that states cannot produce any commodity they want) and a commodity boom that had asymmetric effects among states. These two View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
difficulty in obtaining further positive results for the class of solvable one-sided assignment problems in line with Sasaki's (1995) characterizations of the core for two-sided assignment problems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-146.pdf View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?
uncovered by Cohen’s team apply to the coronavirus vaccines? The short answer: Yes, and the more rushed the approval process, the more likely patients will experience side effects from these drugs, Cohen says. We asked Cohen to discuss... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
wants to understand the barriers to effecting change on global issues such as health care." Under Ray Gilmartin's leadership, Merck has launched an unprecedented number of new drugs and forged partnerships with the public and nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
vacant. "The country stops. The days that Brazil plays, it will be a national holiday," Sender says. This year, though, Sender won't have much time to celebrate. As CEO of TAM Airlines, Brazil's largest, she'll be managing operations at... View Details
- 08 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 8, 2006
Working PapersThe Judgment-Decision Paradox in Experience-Based Decisions and the Contingent Recency Effect Authors:Greg Barron, Ido Erev, and Eldad Yechiam. Abstract The current paper explores a judgment-decision paradox in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne