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  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

While the senior bank debt comprised only 6% of the capital used in the acquisition and was fully secured, it exercised its right to stop payments to Lind's subordinated lender that funded about 40% of the acquisition, pushing that debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-043.pdf Introductory Reading for Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, and Kari L. Granger Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

a worker bee, what's it like to show up to work each day in one of these companies? A: Here is what I think characterizes these workplaces. They are much more dynamic and flexible, and people exercise much more control about when and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery

businesses exercised disaster preparedness and recovery, and how entrepreneurs are finding opportunities for economic revival. "Post-disaster settings provide opportunities to examine the effectiveness of leadership in mobilizing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities; Retail
  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

markets allow the backward linkages between foreign and domestic firms to turn into FDI spillovers. Our calibration exercises indicate that a) holding the extent of foreign presence constant, financially well-developed economies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Inside the Revolution

across a set of technologies.” Pisano is heading up a June Executive Education program (Leadership and Strategy in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech) that will focus on these matters. He notes that such programs are synergistic learning View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions and sovereign-to-sovereign transactions. Specifically, we show (i) international capital flows net of government debt are positively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

to understand them, and be prepared to educate the VC about why his exercising too much power could hurt both parties in the long-term. Maximize trust. Beneath all the financial projections, the VC negotiation is a process in which people... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 15 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 15, 2016

levels and frequency of default typical of emerging markets even if the household impatience parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

organizations and in society disrupts the learning cycle at the heart of becoming a leader. Women must establish credibility in a culture that is deeply conflicted about whether, when, and how they should exercise authority. Practices... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2022
  • News

Lesson Plans

own time and pace? There’s an on-demand video for that. They need practice? They need feedback? There’s adaptive exercises readily available for students. And when that happens, all sorts of neat things happen. One, the students can... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

exercise ultimate control over the corporation, university business education lost the grand narrative that had sustained it from its beginnings. The loss of this historical metanarrative of management as a profession — a narrative that... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Too Big To Fail

systemically dangerous part of the system, the commercial banks, and we exercised a much lighter touch elsewhere, leaving the rest of the financial system to innovate, be dynamic, and do everything that markets do so well.” This targeted... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Damon Silvers

that company could have learned that tactic from Stalin. That’s how Stalin maintained fear in the Soviet Union. He wouldn’t just shoot his opponents; he’d shoot people randomly. The whole point of employer responses to workers’ efforts to View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation
  • 05 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 5, 2006

Case 806-093 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806093 Boat Building Exercise: Four Modes of Propulsion Harvard Business School Exercise 606-148 Purchase this exercise:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

operating plan, considering the key milestones and valuation inflection points ahead? If things are going well, or (all too frequently) not well, how should a founder consider and navigate exit options? The course has 24 cases, 3 exercises, and a wrap-up session. The... View Details
  • 27 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 27

consumers make complementary choices in purchase decisions (e.g., chips and salsa), product inter-operabilities (smartphones and networks), and dynamic decisions (current exercise and future healthcare consumption). Multiple consumers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 14

Case 812-101 Provides background information for a negotiations exercise in which students will represent either Keurig, a startup that has developed an innovative "portion pack" coffee brewing solution, or Green Mountain Coffee... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

to manage. A key assumption is that middle management exercises proper judgment in selectively exhibiting leniencies. Moral gray zones therefore rely on trust, at all levels, and might not be appropriate in all contexts. Strong... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

strategic pivot. Though Bettina loves the entrepreneurial exhilaration of "riding a rollercoaster every day," the company's current cash position gives them only a four-month runway. For Bettina, though they can at times be tense, board meetings and their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne