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- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
how to enter the industry. A small group of managers have to decide on a business model, how to meet hiring and funding needs, and what types of ratings to start with: municipal, corporate, or structured. Where are the needs for new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Harvard Business School Case 606-090 Brandon Fogg must solve two seemingly unrelated problems in his management of creative R&D professionals. First, despite having hired brilliant research professionals, his firm is having problems... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
also extended to the companies in which XTV invested. These were structured as separate legal entities, with their own boards and officers. XTV sought to recruit employees from other start-ups who were familiar with managing new enterprises. The typical CEO was View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 26 Aug 2009
- Op-Ed
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
cumbersome. Each clunker required dealer salespeople to complete 11 forms, the online computer system set up by Citi was slow and sometimes crashed, and extra workers had to be hired to process C4C claims. Only $145 million of $1.9... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
accuracy.) The researchers also hired a team of workers through the crowdsourcing marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), a popular source of data processing assistance. The workers examined the property photos on each listing and rated... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
Case 713-522 Microsoft in Korea Microsoft Korea sees a potential opportunity to dramatically improve its subsidiary's performance by actively recruiting and promoting female senior managers in South Korea. The question is to what extent multinationals can gain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
were preordered, generating $2.6 million in sales. On one snowy morning in January, CEO Steve Chambers met with co-founder and Chief Scientist Dr. Cynthia Breazeal and newly hired VP of Consumer & Development Relations Lynda Smith to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
funding from a Series A round. She needed to build up sales and marketing; she also wanted to invest in her product, which was already popular in the VC market but was increasingly gaining traction in other markets. Sales and marketing had struggled, meanwhile, after a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2414478 Information and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Wesley Brandi Abstract—We examine online affiliate marketing programs in which merchants oversee thousands of affiliates they have never met. Some... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
insulates the board from pressures by biased or uninformed shareholders. Whether stronger governance improves retain/replace decisions depends on which of these effects dominates. We use our theoretical framework to assess the effect of governance on the quality of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
platform to create personalized online, broadcast-quality video ads tailored to the viewer by location, time of day, real-time offers, and weather. Today the company is hiring again and recently closed deals with Bed Bath & Beyond,... View Details
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
been hired as the first non-founding CEO, taking over from the founder-CEO of a tight-knit founding team. Trachtman had first taken over from a mother and son team, then from two brothers, then from a wife and husband team, and now from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
must grapple with it. Khurana lays out his institutional analysis and its repercussions in his new book, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as... View Details
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
Transfer: Tools for Managing Your Company's Deep Smarts Dorothy Leonard, Walter Swap, and Gavin Barton Bank of America has recognized the need to ensure that leaders get off to a fast start as well as the need to reduce the high rate of failure among newly View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
provided more opportunities for catch-up from the Rest. Firms from emerging markets had the opportunity to access the global networks that replaced large integrated firms. There were also new ways to access knowledge and capital, including through management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
market. They're more than 90 percent of Google's revenue. For Google, about half of pay-per-click traffic is placement on Google's own site, but the other half is placement that Google arranges on other companies' sites. To make an extra few dollars a day, someone... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
English-language conference calls of non-U.S. firms, we find that the calls of firms in countries with greater language barriers are more likely to contain non-plain English and erroneous expressions. For non-U.S. firms that hire an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
employee, and as a result leaders hire for attitude and train for skills; (5) effective operating strategies have to create value for employees, customers and investors, so leaders ensure the achievement of the leverage and edge that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
model from a social networking site to an online gaming business came with new challenges. They hired almost an entirely new staff, cultivated new partnerships, and most urgently sought new funding. However, with three years of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace