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  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

Vegemite, the iconic Australian spread. The team must decide whether to bid for the division and, if so, how much to offer and how to finance the all-cash bid. Making these decisions was difficult because this would be Bega’s largest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

had little revenue because it offered services free of charge. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709456 Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Career Coach

Lauren Murphy

coaches. In that role, she also led the Career development program team and doubled career development programs offered to alumni and students. In her current work with HBS, Lauren skillfully coaches students and alumni across all... View Details
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  • 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

analysis (CBA). Many of their specific comments are accurate, useful, and insightful. At the same time, we believe they have misrepresented cost-benefit analysis and have reached a set of conclusions that are misguided and, if adopted wholesale, potentially dangerous.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

business opportunity. For example, in an equity spin-off, a diversified firm's businesses are split apart into independent entities, each with its own common stock. Spin-offs can make sense when a high-growth business is being held back... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

Leading Diversity for Competitive Advantage provides the evidence-based strategic models, methods, tools, and templates that top leaders require to create equity and inclusion, and drive sustainable diversity for competitive advantage in... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

in expectation. We also show that by offering both CPC and CPA, an ad platform can weakly increase its revenues compared to offering either alternative alone. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

(Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers a unique experiment to empirically examine how, in fact, increased competition affects the credit ratings market. Increased competition from Fitch coincides with lower-quality ratings from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

In Review

five Is. What are your reflections on your progress on each one? Let’s start with Innovation. We launched some significant innovations, including the FIELD program and HBS Online. Other lesser-known innovations worth mentioning include SIPs (Short Intensive Programs,... View Details
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

objectives in case method learning. One challenge for case method instructors is the assessment of students' class participation, particularly in large classes. This article offers a solution that mines the practices of peer-to-peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

eventual recovery? How far could Target go in emphasizing low price—the "pay less" side of its slogan—without eroding the company's core promise of offering unique and upscale products that customers would not see at other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

& Law (forthcoming) Abstract The globalization of accounting standards as seen through the proliferation of IFRS worldwide is one of the most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2017
  • News

The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes During Spring reunions, the Bulletin team asked returning alumni one simple question: What was the best business advice you’ve ever received? In this special edition of Skydeck, we View Details
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

would not be achieved even if the product offered a payout ratio comparable to U.S. insurance contracts. We present evidence suggesting that lack of trust, liquidity constraints, and limited salience are significant non-price frictions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

The Business of Love

potential dates, one much larger than their own pre-Facebook social networks. It also offered a peculiar anonymity. Users posted their profiles under pseudonyms and provided only the information they wanted to reveal. The online dating... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 05 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 5, 2006

limit their equity exposures in politically risky countries by sharing ownership with local partners and by serving foreign markets with exports rather than local production. The residual political risk borne by parent companies leads... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

and so on—has the perverse effect of making you just like everyone else. Youngme's message is simple: Get off the competitive treadmill that's taking you nowhere. Aspire to offer the world something that is meaningfully... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

markets offer without incurring the costs of collaborating. Two examples stick out. First, if your production processes are fragmented all around the world, then a relationship with a local partner is rife with conflict as the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

Course MaterialsAustin, Blakeley, & Cambridge, LLC Harvard Business School Case 207-098 The founding partners of ABC, LLC, one of the leading private equity firms in the world, are trying to understand why some of the other top firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Vive la Madeleine!

offer for the company. Yet the company, and its workers, formed the grain of an idea that began to grow in Viana’s mind. “Jeannette, for me, became a double mission, the first being to save the company,” he says. Just past 50, with a full... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova