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  • 24 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

following questions: Was Centerbridge valuing Great Wolf correctly? Would CMBS be the optimal financing structure, and why had no other firm contemplated this type of financing? Would the company, in partnership with Centerbridge, be able... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, February 28

for success, such as the role of the senior team, and that also have distinct disciplines. Incubation is a frequent point of breakdown for firms that seek to build new businesses inside existing corporations; promising ideas often simply... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 27

or form networks. Firms make complementary choices when determining production inputs, entering related markets, and strategic mergers. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/banand/ComplementaryChoices.pdf August 2013 Relations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2017
  • Case

Cantel Medical

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Cantel Medical Corporation provided infection prevention and control products and services for patients, caregivers, and other healthcare providers. In 2016, Cantel generated sales of $665 million and net profits of $60 million, double the levels of five years earlier.... View Details
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  • 04 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Real Cost of Bribery

average, cases in which a senior executive committed the bribe had 64.9 percent more significant impact than those in which the briber was lower down on the corporate totem pole, according to the survey results. "Senior management is... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Mar 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

this. Some insist that this is a poison pill that you have to swallow—there's no other choice. Others say: 'This is impossible, the CEO is crazy. How can you do that?' " Neeley argues that chief executives of global companies will... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • Web

Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First... View Details
  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

of goods or services. We view the primary function of these markets as making it easy for buyers to find sellers and engage in convenient, trustworthy transactions. We discuss elements of market design that make this possible, including View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

Danielle Kost: Every executive is searching for the next big idea or strategy. Are there any techniques or approaches that people can use to stimulate their own creativity at work? Teresa M. Amabile: Three... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

innovation and entrepreneurship in renewable energy. Using data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, we first show that patenting in renewable energy remains highly concentrated in a few large energy firms. In 2009, the top 20 firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

other, and whether he could open as many offices as the firm needed. "When I looked at my watch and realized that it was 10:00 p.m. and that I had been sitting on the bench for two hours, I knew something had to give," he... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

An Engine of Innovation

Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something that happens within a truly... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 23 Jun 2023
  • News

Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

Alumni Board members on campus for their annual spring meeting // Credit: Panfoto Hard work, with humility for humanity, is the spirit that animates Harvard Business School's MBA program today, Matt Weinzierl, Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program, told... View Details
  • 25 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 25, 2016

understanding of how consumers adopt innovations with how firms effectively acquire, serve, and retain customers. The result is a lens through which to view the commercial potential of innovations and a powerful vehicle for placing a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2022
  • News

Nohria’s Next Move

In a message to the HBS community this week, former Dean Nitin Nohria shared his next chapter. “I am pursuing a new adventure as the Executive Chairman of Thrive Capital, a firm that invests in and builds... View Details
  • 24 May 2017
  • News

Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973

an executive who understood technology, knew how to market it, and had the leadership skills to take on difficult challenges, she also focused on paving the way for more women. “I see it as a virtuous circle,” she says. “People help you,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 16 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set forth in previous chapters to theories of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 Aug 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

same. This is in the face of research findings that organizations with significant minority representation are stronger than their peers. A McKinsey & Company study in May of top executive teams in more than a thousand organizations... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

that estimate the amount of money "left on the table" by stronger founders who agree to an equal split. We estimate that the value at stake is approximately 10% of the firm equity, 25% of the average founder stake, or $450K in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 7, 2016

May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings International Data on Measuring Management Practices By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We examine methods used to survey View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne