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  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

mechanism we used to facilitate reader/student introspection was end-of-chapter/cases Reflections. Also, we experimented with audio versions of book chapters in the classroom. We went on to continue Jim Barton's hero's journey in a second... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207039 Vipp A/S Harvard Business School Case 607-052 Rapidly growing Vipp sells highly differentiated (and expensive) "designer" versions of a product that most... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015

growth and low profitability. Students must determine the reasons for the rising bank borrowing, estimate the amount of borrowing needed, and assess the attractiveness of the loan to the bank. A rewritten version of an earlier case.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos

Evian's baby&me features several adults dancing with toddler versions of themselves in the reflection of a store window. Only at the end of the 77-second video do we see a bottle of Evian, along with the slogan "Live young." Since its... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

Consistency By: Barak-Corren, Netta, Chia-Jung Tsay, Fiery Cushman, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We study how people reconcile conflicting moral intuitions by juxtaposing two versions of classic moral problems: the trolley problem and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

reader/student introspection was end-of-chapter/cases Reflections. Also, we experimented with audio versions of book chapters in the classroom. We went on to continue Jim Barton's hero's journey in a second Harvard Business Press book... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

president of purchasing to coordinate and centralize purchasing procedures in a multinational company. He encounters a lack of active cooperation. A rewritten version of an earlier case by G. Lombard. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009

Competition Between Differentiated Products with Demand for More Than One Variety Author: Andrei Hagiu Abstract We analyze the existence of pure strategy symmetric price equilibria in a generalized version of Salop's (1979) circular model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Damon Silvers

Relief Program (TARP). It was a losing battle. Over the course of an hour, he fielded a half-dozen urgent calls from his staff regarding a draft version of a report on TARP expenditures due to Congress the next day (December 10).... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

abridged version of an earlier case. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/913036-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-113 Value Partners and the Evergrande Situation In June 2012, Cheah Cheng-Hye and his colleagues at Value... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

plan was going well. And while the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 had affected the financial results, it also presented Friend with competitive opportunities. Nonetheless, realizing her ultimate goals for Friend would not come easily. This is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2017
  • News

Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

learning disability in the past or whatever it is, really figure out, hey, I'm unique, and my unique traits make me good for these types of things. And there's no version of uniqueness that isn't-- that doesn't have there fit somewhere in... View Details
  • 11 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business

The children's classic The Polar Express tells the fanciful story of a young boy's journey to the North Pole on a train filled with chocolate and candy. But when Warner Brothers released a $165 million computer-animated version of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18

case presents the predicament of a company trying to do right by its customers and its employees as the economic crisis of 2008 hits home. Fifteen years earlier, this Spanish supermarket chain had adopted its own version of total quality... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

Coming Out at Business School

guess of why I was calling crying and confused speaks to how deeply I had buried my identity from myself and others. I was unable to make this connection because of how deeply Christianity - a demonizing, demeaning version of Christianity... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

E Ink’s Wild Ride

Despite the Kindle’s early hype (Oprah called it her “favorite new gadget”), which e-reader will dominate over the next few years remains an open question. Will a separate e-reading device even exist? Or will it morph into some version of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

individual organisation's approach to its marketplace, brand resources, and strategy may to varying degrees be brand oriented. This study suggests that brand orientation also applies to a network of brands. Separately, the extended View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

The model suggests that the more forward-looking buyers are, the more advantageous it is to use fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) tactics to drive the competing system out. Consider SCO, a small "vulture" firm that had bought up the intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

who enter an industry at precisely the wrong time end up suffering too badly: resilience and decision making on the fly are two traits we try to inculcate in students before they graduate. Describe your version of an ideal relationship... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 25 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

individual ethics and as a specific version of a broader argument made for centuries by theorists from Hume to Hayek. I also provide evidence of an example in which real-world policy judgments are consistent with this theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel