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- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
of rapid profit improvement. The question facing CEO Thomas J. Wilson was how to maintain the momentum. This case tracks the evolution of Allstate's strategy over 20 years, examining the logic behind the strategic changes, and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
during 2012? Did they increase gains throughout the year but then very aggressively decrease them before year-end? Did they sell 80 percent or more of their capital gains during the year? They wound up with a pool of 2,281 tax-minded executives who View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
Spain, was expanding and wanted to exploit customer information to increase commercial effectiveness. At the same time, it was pushing for innovation in the nascent Spanish credit card market. To avoid the considerable investments of time... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
contribution is tax-deductible in the contribution year, but both principal and investment earnings are taxed upon withdrawal. Using administrative data from 11 companies that added a Roth contribution option to their existing 401(k) plan... View Details
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
impact on their choices about career. And it struck me that these women were among the best and the brightest. They were very ambitious. They had invested a lot in their training at HBS and in their career development. So it probably was... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- Profile
Patrick Chun
engrossed," Patrick says, "with the idea that strategic thinking and business had such a global impact, and where the world is going." Eager to learn more about "how strategy moves," Patrick spent two years with... View Details
- Web
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
complemented my HBS learning experience well. At HBS, we’re taught to think strategically about problems. Whether it’s by the case method, immersive projects, or conversations with classmates, we’re often thinking about strategy. The boot... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
worldwide are from HBS. One exciting challenge for us is the increasing pace and scope of innovation. The coming years will require both careful strategic investment and creativity in preserving HBS’s... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
Abstract—Many experiments have found that participants take more investment risk if they see returns less frequently, see portfolio-level returns (rather than each individual asset’s returns), or see long-horizon (rather than one-year)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53199 forthcoming Industrial and Corporate Change Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract—The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
Abraham Neyman Abstract—Building on the work of Nash, Harsanyi, and Shapley, we define a cooperative solution for strategic games that takes account of both the competitive and the cooperative aspects of such games. We prove existence in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Organizations: Chapter 7 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 2: Technical and Strategic Bottlenecks as Guides for Action By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to present analytic tools based on functional... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
successfully navigate their academic careers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50056 Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules By: Azoulay, Pierre, Joshua S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
media content. Raises issues of how technology interacts with creative processes and outcome possibilities, and also invites discussion of strategic and organizational questions raised by the very different business models of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
participation in OS arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (2) OS and P firms may (or may not) coexist in equilibrium. Firms decide their type and investment in R&D and sell packages composed of a primary good... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Healy, Nitin Nohria, and George Serafeim Publication:Financial Analysts Journal (forthcoming) Abstract A firm's competitive environment, its strategic choices, and its internal capabilities are considered important determinants of its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
difficult to pull off. You’re better off investing in that one $200 million movie. It seems risky to put all your eggs in one basket, but it can be the best way to go.” The value of superstars In Elberse’s book Blockbusters, she notes... View Details
- 05 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Developing Black Talent for Leadership
Taylor, and many others at the hands of police and the Covid-19 pandemic, professors and classmates have also helped strengthen my resolve to use my voice now to advocate for change and to support these organizations. For companies making View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business School Press) The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail demonstrates why outstanding companies that focus on competitiveness, listen closely to customers, and View Details
- Profile
Brandon Gayle
Bartending Course — it was a great opportunity to turn around a business that was struggling, which my team and I did," says Brandon. Approached by recruiters in investment banking and consulting, Brandon chose the latter. "I... View Details