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- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
significant increases in public funding for energy R&D. Some commentators are suggesting that these increases need to be sustained and are advocating for increases of as much as 300 or 400 percent, suggesting that the U.S. needs a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
pressure, other circumstances, and Grady's level of creativity. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808075 D2Hawkeye: Growing the Medical IT Enterprise Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
the two investment banks that just announced they will become bank holding companies did not do so by choice, Rose said. "This is a requirement that the Fed imposed on them and that the Treasury imposed... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
brands. Companies can leverage storytelling to build their brands, and careful brand extensions can grow the business as long as they do not alienate core loyalists. Other potentially risky opportunities to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
other relevant variables, we find that grocery spending increases by $1.59 with the use of a $10-off coupon. In addition, even though the receipt of a $10-off coupon does not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
performance. Importantly, because these dynamics rely on the acquiescence of other team members to the leader's dominant behavior, the effects only emerge when the leader holds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
of Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna, the Henry B. Arthur Fellow of business ethics at Harvard Business School. In a nutshell, the case goes like this: "Jim" accepts a summer internship as a loan... View Details
- 17 Jul 2025
- Blog Post
Turning Doubt into Drive: Embracing Entrepreneurship with Kait Stephens (MBA 2020)
it would be that I’d actually be a good founder. It would’ve quieted the impostor syndrome and fear that made those first steps so daunting. And yet I value the impact vulnerability can have on leadership. We all have fears, and when we don’t let the fear View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
asset pricing model in which some investors form beliefs about future price changes in the stock market by extrapolating past price changes, while other investors hold fully rational beliefs. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
zones As companies expand operations across the globe, they must grapple with time gaps during which employees cannot collaborate (i.e., lost productivity). To study this phenomenon, a research team studied communication patterns among... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
multi-sided markets. In this paper we argue that there is a fundamental unity in the architecture of platforms. Platform architectures are modularizations of complex systems in which certain components (the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
office was, and one by one passionately voiced their thoughts and feelings about the situation to each other and our local leadership team. People did not hold back,” Jacobs... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
relevant government ministers at the table in a culturally sensitive process. Instead, the company took innovative actions away from the table that significantly improved its negotiating position. "Kennecott involved a variety View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
strong as ever, even if their lives have shifted focus. Kim Ulrich Whelan (MBA '84), who heads the Boston office of a consulting company that places people in flexible work... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
Programmers contribute to free software and open source projects for many reasons—some for the fun of it, some to improve their skills, others for a paycheck. Many people have wondered why these people give... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
Review excerpt below, Professor James K. Sebenius describes number six on the list, "Failing to correct for skewed vision." Negotiators are often too confident of their own position and too quick to demonize the View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
the eighteenth-century pottery and china manufacturer; H.J. Heinz, who started the famous food company in 1869; and Marshall Field, the late nineteenth-century Chicago retailer. Below, in Part Two, Koehn shares her thoughts on how three... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
later volunteered teaching at a prison. A couple of years after leaving HBS, I became interested in the idea of the ROI of higher ed; that a college degree used to be the best... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Qiao Ma (MBA 2010)
has been happening for decades in Japan, Korea, and China. I joined Lehman Brothers in 2006 and was at HBS when it crashed in 2008. That day, Professor Clayton Rose led an impromptu case study of the company... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
which can be challenging in a large company like ours. One thing I do is hold regularly scheduled "diagonal-slice meetings," which include people from all levels and all areas View Details