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- 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20
is a network of successful private health clinics that primarily serve middle-income populations but which have the potential to reach low-income markets. On what basis should Acumen decide whether or not to invest? What performance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009
Business School Case 409-060 This case illustrates the leadership and management challenges of starting a new firm based on a new business model and how success creates pressures that challenge the work/life balance which was one of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
digital platform, and the increased fiscal pressures created by the worldwide economic crisis. Unfortunately, the educational programs for future health care leaders fail to provide many of the needed skills, according to a survey of CEOs... View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208083 Cyworld: Creating and Capturing Value in a Social Network Harvard Business School Case 509-012 May 2008, the new CEO of Cyworld, a social network... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
agriculture. In the successful industries that we all talk about, it was limited and muted and not the cause of success." Before opening up the discussion to other panelists, Porter pointed out that much of what had been viewed as... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
detailed data on how their CEOs allocate their work time, which we define as their span of activity. Span of activity provides a direct measure of the CEO's management style, including the attention devoted to specific subordinates and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
prevent you from actually being good at anything. Dafny: Right, success in either strategy or implementation requires making trade-offs. In the absence of those trade-offs, you have a lot of mediocrity. Sadun: I would also tell the View Details
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
enormous impact on the very big problems we're facing in the world today: natural resource scarcity, social inequality, and poverty, as well as on governance issues like product safety and corruption. More and more CEOs are leading their... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
escalated. A Deloitte survey in 2010 of 131 financial institutions worldwide found that 79 percent had enterprise risk management programs in place or in progress, an increase of 20 percent from just two years earlier. And 86 percent had a chief risk officer who... View Details
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
knowledge, attitudes and experience will free them from the past and help them become successful leaders in ever-evolving tech-contributor spheres?" What do you think? Original Article The other night a classmate and long-time... View Details
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
monitoring management. While the Economist magazine recently suggested that we are in an era of the "imperial shareholder," our results indicate that activism tends to be most successful when there is a high probability of a... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
What's in a name? Plenty if you're a consumer marketer trying to build a brand. "They are road signs that help people find orientation in the jungle of supply", said Hans G. Gueldenberg, CEO of Nestlé Deutschland AG. According... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-120.pdf A Theory of Explicitly Formulated Strategy Authors:Eric J. Van den Steen Abstract When a CEO tries to formulate "a strategy," what is she looking for? What exactly is "a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22
self-sorting, and manager-directed joint learning. It shows that such culture will be stronger among more important employees and in older and more successful firms where employees make important decisions and the manager has strong... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
variable store traffic. What Mercadona shows is that all this torture isn't necessary. You can offer employees stability and still run a very successful supermarket chain." The Specialist Knows The Mercadona case, which Ton has... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
engage in a literary dialogue. By 2011, JLF attracted the largest festival audience in the Asia Pacific region with approximately 60,000 visitors from 24 countries. It featured 224 speakers in 140 sessions and 100 musicians in 20 concerts. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
forthcoming Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—The Fearless Organization offers practical guidance for teams and organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
the significance levels are lower. Cases & Course MaterialsAdnexus Therapeutics, Inc.: Considering the Exit Harvard Business School Case 609-015 Dr. John Mendlein, CEO of Adnexus Therapeutics Inc. (Adnexus), a private biotechnology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7
fiscal year 2016. CEO Tim Cook commented on a very successful fiscal year 2016 and focused on all the positive financial results. However, Apple’s 2016 annual report was also telling another story. Apple’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
top biotech managers, companies leave an imprint of their worldview on young executives through such things as the firm's structure, strategy, and culture. There is a GE imprint, an IBM imprint, a Bain imprint—all of which influence future decision makers.... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark