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  • 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation is negative, suggesting that more reliance on luck is correlated with less individualism. We provide three short models that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2025
  • News

A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado

also serves as the SEI’s faculty chair, and in that role, he organized and moderated the panel discussion, which featured Rosie Allen-Herring (SPNM 2015) the President and Chief Executive Officer of United Way of the National Capital... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 18 Oct 2024
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My Worst Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53288 Harvard Business School Case 818-007 Entrepreneurship for All Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) is a Lowell, Massachusetts–based nonprofit that hosts business accelerators for entrepreneurs in underserved... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

the high-tech group, and spend time with family. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/913420-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 913-406 Nestlé: Agricultural Material Sourcing Within the Concept of Creating Shared Value Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

decades, we have seen a distinct transformation of the C-suite—a term denoting the most important senior executives in an organization—characterized by the proliferation of new Chief X Officer (CXO) roles, in which X stands for a specific... View Details
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

the problem rather than a crucial part of the solution—and this is a mistake. The district office plays an important role in developing strategies, identifying and spreading best practices, developing leadership capabilities at all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

long been based on the principle of delegating tasks to subordinate officers (take the hill without specifying how, leaving it to the judgment of the relevant unit commander—called Aufgabentaktik), while the American army tends to follow... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

effects of deregulation on firm size are significantly non-linear. The reallocation of market shares toward a small number of large firms and a large number of small firms is characterized as the "shrinking middle" in Indian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

surveys at one office of the firm. They discovered four keys to building a help-friendly organization that leaders of other organizations could learn and apply to similar effect. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

conglomerate. With leading positions in newspapers, broadcast television, broadcast radio, cable television, and Internet services, Grupo Clarín caught the attention of U.S.-based investment bank Goldman Sachs, which acquired an 18% share... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

poor financial markets, b) increases in the share of FDI or the relative productivity of the foreign firm leads to higher additional growth in financially developed economies compared to those observed in financially under-developed ones,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2013
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The Accidental Innovator

spring’s Commencement address. As he greets a visitor to his bare-bones office in Mountain View, California, there’s little evidence of this former hedge-fund analyst’s meteoric rise to rock-star status as a kind of online pied piper for... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2018
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The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)

officer in the Marine Corps. I have to understand who the local power brokers are, what the major issues and challenges are, and how I can use my resources to make a difference while at the same time trying to accomplish my mission. It... View Details
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

extremely competitive market conditions. That doesn't stop many retailers from trying. Indeed, grocers like Tesco, Sainsbury's, Kroger, Safeway, and Stop & Shop give back 1-2 percent of the total spent to their card-carrying shoppers. Stores in other... View Details
Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains

gradually entering the vernacular. “I wrote four business plans while in school,” says David P. Perry (MBA 1997), who was a finalist that first year and went on to implement his plan upon graduation. Perry’s start-up, Chemdex, rode the dot-com roller coaster and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

study that married their shared interests in healthcare, technology, and entrepreneurship. Rock Health supported health-tech entrepreneurs with a startup grant of $20,000, office space, and a wide variety of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

productivity improvements. Over the past 15 years, production efficiencies have enabled an average S&P 500 company to reduce its cost of goods sold by about 250 basis points, Cespedes says, but selling expenses as a percentage of revenue have not decreased. “CEOs... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 5, 2006

limit their equity exposures in politically risky countries by sharing ownership with local partners and by serving foreign markets with exports rather than local production. The residual political risk borne by parent companies leads... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), to participate in a workshop with academics who study government regulation and industry compliance. The event featured a series of presentations by scholars sharing their research findings and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding