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- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
alternatives to expand its presence in online advertising, especially text-based pay-per-click advertising. Google dominates, and it is unclear how Microsoft can grow, despite considerable technical and financial resources. Microsoft... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
relocated to a larger store and is experiencing losses for the first time. Sales and costs have increased along with the breakeven point. Changes in pricing and promotion must be explored. Alternative actions to return to profitability... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
conclude that the new function of replication has somehow supplanted the old function of arbitrage. Arbitrage and replication are distinct functions, and their cross-border potential varies from context to context. And more broadly, arbitrage is just one of the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
by Alex Haley and Malcom X, but can’t seem to find my copy as I think I lent it to my son just before he left for his gap year. Laura Huang I like to switch up what I’m reading—so I often alternate between fiction and non-fiction,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
the increasing role of technology (digital and mobile) as well as the use by consumers of alternative signals of status, such as wearing less prominently branded apparel, being less conformist (e.g., entering a luxury store in a casual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
paper prices necessitated the development of a comprehensive financial plan to relieve the financial pressures on Stone. Among the alternatives to be considered are straight debt, convertible debt, and equity. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
the impact of alternative policies governing the creation and use of digital information. This agenda focuses on the development of research to investigate the economics of digitization, to analyze the governance of intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
skepticism'). Fostering alternative calculative cultures, strategically involved CROs interpreted the 'business partner' role of their function in different ways. Some risk functions aspired for an influential expert voice in key business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
results contribute to the literature on how alternative organizational forms can be designed to solve complex innovation tasks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2384068 Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
market, namely, limited exit and new investment opportunities. As Enfoca faced an aging fund, its leadership team began considering alternatives to the traditional private equity fund model. This case presents an example of a local... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
overwhelming majority of people believe trying to calm down is the best way to cope with pre-performance anxiety. However, across several studies involving karaoke singing, public speaking, and math performance, I investigate an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
to Microsoft! The "Windows persistence" result turns out to be robust to different specifications of the model. In fact, in the first few months into the project we had developed several alternative models and every one of them... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
brand strategies. They looked to emerging international markets to fuel growth and broaden their portfolios of alternate beverages like tea, juice, sports drinks, energy drinks, and bottled water. Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola had vied for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
have received the alternative pay rate. Lower pay rates increased cheating when the prospect of a higher pay rate was salient. Experiment 2 illustrates that this effect is driven by the ease with which poorly compensated participants can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
structure, explore three alternatives using debt finance, and determine the optimal debt-to-capital ratio. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/913517-PDF-ENG Yum! Brands Jordan Siegel and Christopher PoliquinHarvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of mass-marketing blockbuster drugs. In a parallel development, patients and disease-based... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Covenants not to Compete in the United States, United Kingdom and France to compete or trade secrets versus patents as alternative ways to protect a businesses' intellectual property. Purchase this note:... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
alternative course of action would have been the one chosen by Shell, which from the experiences in the above-mentioned negative events, strove to assume leadership of the environmental cause in its industry, and turned it into a... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
these problems without solving the other may be a costly outcome, but it is not an informed choice. The world must have much better, low-cost, zero-carbon emission alternatives to meet the world’s urgent need for on-demand,... View Details
- 22 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panel on Pedagogical Innovations in MBA Courses
School. These innovations include subject matter innovations such as courses that focus on globalization and green businesses. They also include innovations in how courses are structured and taught, including greater integration between courses and View Details