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- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
anxiety: Openly discuss this situation with your team It is a natural aspect of growth and success, but it requires managing expectations. “Good news, we’re growing! But this means we are going to be shifting how we work and some of us... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
growth of a company. Not surprisingly, firms spend billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and demonstrate that these View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
poorer Latin American countries. Traditional exports—coal, coffee, oil—still comprised more than half the total, while manufactured exports comprised only a fifth. Public investment in transport and other infrastructure—a perpetual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- February 2009
- Teaching Note
AMD Dresden: Copy Inexactly! (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for [609004]. View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development; Production; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Investment; Industry Clusters; Groups and Teams; Motivation and Incentives; Competency and Skills; Engineering; Science; Geographic Location; Semiconductor Industry; Germany; Europe; United States
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Transfers usefully move resources from lowest- to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially costly growth in the Internet's routing table. We propose a market rule that avoids excessive trading and comes close to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
of the microfinance industry and the challenges of investing in this new field of the emerging markets. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307078 Organic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
suggested that the benefit of separating the new venture had to do with securing resources for it. However, our research found that parent organizations invested roughly the same amount in integrated ventures as they did in independent... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
laboratories located in 20 countries and annual revenues of more than $450 million. The majority of its recent revenue growth in the US has come from companies that previously did their own testing but that have decided to outsource.... View Details
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
organizations had 512 trustees and numerous senior staff. Levy oversees the Lincoln, but has no hiring or firing power within its organizations. Like many nonprofits, Lincoln Center has both thrived and struggled over the years. By the late 1990s, deferred View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
predictive and prescriptive implications, this theory contributes to the general notion that pricing might affect as much as capture perceived value. Paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-055.pdf Capital Structure with Risky Foreign View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
with Azure, acquiring LinkedIn in social media and Activision/Blizzard in gaming, and investing in OpenAI to gain control of ChatGPT. Equally important, he transformed the Microsoft culture from an arrogant bureaucracy into an empowered... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
with growth and that means relying on others. Thyssen realized this more easily than the others because he was always interested in commercial organization. He was often away drumming up business and could not remain on site to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
ancillary benefits raise questions about how to structure and price ShopRunner's offering. Meanwhile, an investment from Alibaba presents new opportunities in China but risks distraction from the core business. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
Cases & Course Materials The Congressional Oversight Panel's Valuation of the TARP Warrants (A) Carliss Y. BaldwinHarvard Business School Case 210-035 The Congressional Oversight Panel wants to value the warrants issued to the government in connection with the TARP... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
Abstract—Researchers have long hypothesized that research outputs from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary form. The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
Overwhelming evidence and experience shows, however, that most companies are unable to transfer employee learning into changes in individual and organization behavior or improved financial performance. Put simply, companies are not getting the return they expect on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
indigenous companies and investors in emerging markets worldwide. Palepu and Khanna joined forces for our Q&A. Martha Lagace: Why study emerging markets? Krishna G. Palepu: Emerging markets are the growth engine for most Western... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
facilitating face-to-face interactions can provide information that impacts the formation of scientific collaborations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-023.pdf Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
several strategic questions including whether and where they should continue investing in offshore wind and how to identify the next key growth businesses of the future. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel