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Buying a Small Business Pt2: Search funds (For HBS Alumni)

Filled with input from experienced searchers, operators, and investors, this document aims to be a potential blueprint for searchers during the search phase. (Suggested prior reading: “Search Fund... View Details
  • 13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008

gain to the other and is equivalent to decreasing the dispersion of the latter's values for the items he does not receive without changing their total. One-agent monotonicity requires that such a change should not hurt the first agent,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

new structure. The additional unit would explore new markets for the firm's promising innovation-Solution BluePrint (SBP). While he knew that some on his team would resist his proposal, he was eager to get... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

university graduates in Japan used GROW, an artificial intelligence platform and mobile app developed by Tokyo-based people analytics startup IGS, to recruit for a job. This case puts participants in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2013
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Moving the Needle

Fran Seegull by Jill Radsken Fran Seegull is a woman on a mission, and it started with a paper she wrote at Harvard Business School. A lifelong passion for philanthropy brought Seegull (MBA 1998) to HBS, to see if she could View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

key problem for organization design will be the management of distributed innovation in such dynamic ecosystems. Specifically, how should diverse entities be integrated into a coherent network that generates goods in the present and new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

be handled in a way that allows for the emotional cauldron that people experience when they are the ones who actually carry out these tasks. According to research by Joshua D. Margolis of HBS and Andrew Molinsky of Brandeis, the emotions... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

locate them in non-mainline business units, such as corporate or philanthropic foundations. Using survey and archival data from 161 Fortune 500 firms, we find support for our hypotheses. Our findings reveal how institutional logics serve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

health choices. The good news is that human nature can also be a source of solutions. Through her studies in Zambia exploring the reasons for unwanted pregnancies and the incentives that would motivate hairdressers to sell condoms to... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12

series of studies demonstrates that people confer higher status and competence to nonconforming rather than conforming individuals. These positive inferences derived from signals of nonconformity are mediated by perceived autonomy and moderated by individual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

space, and asks how the voice assistant should fit in with Alphabet's larger portfolio of products and services. While the mobile phone was the major platform for Google Assistant, Alphabet had recently... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7

progressively extending them across the country. These incremental reforms supplied the institutional blueprint for India’s universal primary education program in 2000. As policies were introduced from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • June 2025
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TagHive: Edtech Pricing and Distributor Decisions

By: Isamar Troncoso, Frank V. Cespedes and Stacy Straaberg
Education technology (edtech) company TagHive, founded in 2017, used a direct sales team and third-party distributors to sell its Class Saathi hardware and software solution to 300 clients, mainly primary and secondary schools in India. The product aimed to improve... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Social Marketing; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Education; Teaching; Price; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Satisfaction; Growth and Development; Technological Innovation; Education Industry; Technology Industry; India; South Korea
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  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

company add complexity to its app, design multiple apps for business segments, or expand into other mobile channels? Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/512082-PDF-ENG Parent Company P and 80 Percent... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

    Michael A. Volkema

    Volkema was devoted to turning the office furniture company into a profitable enterprise. Developing an extensive 12 person Executive Leadership team, Volkema redesigned HM’s core value system, launching the Blueprint View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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    This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

    • 20 Oct 2009
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      Working PapersGray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing (revised) Authors:Romana Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels, for instance when... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 24 Mar 2009
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    First Look: March 24, 2009

    economies. Consistent with the presence of network effects in IFRS adoption, we find that a country is more likely to adopt IFRS if other countries in its geographical region are IFRS adopters. (No PDF is available.)   Cases & Course MaterialsBasic Techniques View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 05 Sep 2006
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    First Look: September 5, 2006

      Working PapersNone this week   Cases & Course MaterialsCreating Meaning for the Customer: The Case of GMACI Harvard Business School Case 106-073 Excellence in exploiting customer information and leveraging its affiliation to the GM... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne