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- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
executive officer, on a visit to Pola's head office in Tokyo, heard news of critical comments about the company and animal testing in a Facebook post from a group in South Australia where the brand had been founded as a small biodynamic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27
and provocative, this book is an essential resource for all teams seeking to strengthen their innovative prowess. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
heart of the enterprise. And that's what I found. For companies like IBM and Procter & Gamble, this is definitely at the heart of the enterprise. The Japanese company Omron has sustained itself since its founding on principles and on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
Rogers and her team are faced with the task of creating an Olympic Legacy Reserve Fund that could enable the city to achieve its sustainability goals, but involves a significant tax increase for Vancouver's residents and businesses. With... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-090_9901a957-a740-47b2-abce-4f93070d21fe.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 714-432 Emirates Airline: Connecting the Unconnected Narrates the story of Emirates, an airline View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015
By: Stern, Ariel Dora Abstract—This paper explores how the regulatory approval process affects innovation incentives in medical technologies. Prior studies have found early mover regulatory advantages for drugs. I find the opposite for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
execution of that strategy. Considering the limited free time an athlete like Sharapova has in a year filled with training sessions and tournaments across the globe—less than 20 days remain for sponsorship commitments—I found it... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
to Be True Google’s founders wrote “10 Things We Know to Be True,” a document detailing founding principles and values, early in the company’s life. As the company expanded, added business units, and changed its name to Alphabet, were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
week, two weeks, or more? If you don’t know, find out now and work to shorten ramp-up time and increase productivity in your sales team after the crisis. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
GeoMatch software application. The team built algorithms that predicted places where refugees were most likely to find work, which they considered one of the best indicators of a family’s success in assimilating. Their second goal: To... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
Simons. By posing these provocative questions, you identify critical gaps in your strategy execution processes, focus on the most important choices you must make, and understand what's at stake in each one. In this concise guide, Simons presents the seven key questions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
no impact on overall financial wellbeing or mental health. In fact, those who received debt relief were less likely to repay their other outstanding medical bills. Researchers found no impact on credit use and access or financial distress... View Details
- 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
personality theory into a multi-level model of information acquisition and idea generation. We posit that innovator and peer personality are critical factors conditioning who will generate high-quality ideas, and that our proposed mechanisms have implications at both... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
School Case 510-104 Founded as a for-profit microfinance company, Equitas had acquired nearly a million clients in the short two years since it was founded. The founder, Vasu, and his management team wished... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
Schumpeter strays in Business Cycles onto whatever tangents interest him. Today, research efforts comparable to what Schumpeter was trying to do often employ teams of half a dozen statisticians, economists, and other social scientists.... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
better understand the needs of Mexico's less-affluent customers, CEMEX assembled a team of employees who agreed to spend ten hours each day for an entire year in an extremely poor neighborhood in Guadalajara. Consumers in this... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13
which was founded by actor/director Robert Redford to promote independent filmmaking. Started as a "Lab" where independent filmmakers could work on their film projects, the Institute soon expanded to organize the Sundance Film... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 12
investor relations. A study is conducted of the language used by executives in conference calls discussing earnings with investors and financial analysts. A correlation was found between the use of language indicating a short-term focus... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
we've increasingly observed another phenomenon: ideas flowing back to the U.S. Take wireless technology in Europe, for example, where the standards are more uniform and advanced than they are here. I'm now advising a one-year field study View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
is found when the regression is run on data generated by a calibrated version of our theoretical model. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-080.pdf Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace