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- 06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015
technologies by examining the quality of the marginal entrants who benefited from reform. As expected, the reform relaxed constraints and led to an increase in entrepreneurship through the collateral channel. However, on average, new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
form, as we move from one element to the next. In the end, these four elements coalesce to form a single integrated process—a single source of organizational power. Talking About talk, Inc. When we began the project that led to this book,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
developing leaders effective in collaborative, global organizations. True North Groups is also the title of the new book I have written with coauthor Doug Baker, a pioneer in the small-group movement. Having participated in two True North Groups for more than 25 years,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
shareholders, and the nationality of management could and quite often did point in different directions. During the twentieth century such "cosmopolitan capitalism" was replaced by sharper national identities. However the interwar disintegration of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
arguments that prevented their being deterred from going to war; the economic reasons for their ultimate defeat; and the economic consequences of the Allied victory. False economic assumptions led the Axis powers to start the war and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
purchasing Treasuries did not have such differential effects. We find that the Fed's purchase of MBS (rather than exclusively Treasuries) during QE1 resulted in an additional $600 billion of refinancing, substantially reduced interest payments for refinancing... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
business leaders had to have demonstrated at least four consecutive years of top financial performance, and/or they had to have led a business or service that changed the way Americans lived, worked, or interacted in the twentieth... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
role in the industry. Its current position is, however, increasingly being challenged by consumer-direct models, led by major providers seeking to shortcut brokers. Ashar faces a strategic dilemma in cooperating—but also in competing—with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
on consumers' browsers, resulting in higher prices for returning shoppers, consumer backlash led the company to state that such practice was a "mistake" and that it would refrain from pricing based on customer demographics in the future.... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
Funds at Vanguard (A) Robert C. Pozen and Steven VickersHarvard Business School Case 311-134 Vanguard Group management, led by CEO John Brennan, was considering whether to launch exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in early 2000. ETFs, first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
dishonest behavior motivated moral leniency and led to forgetting of moral rules, honest behavior motivated moral stringency and diligent recollection of moral rules. Download the Paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
the return required by their capital providers. This led to an extraordinary institutional change that was not accompanied by a corresponding mandate to the Fed and other regulatory agencies to expand their "housekeeping"... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
the men who had led IBM to near-disaster in the 1980s. Fighting denial is not a matter of IQ. It is a matter of point of view. Excerpt From denial: Why Business Leaders Fail To Look Facts In The Face—and What To Do About It By Richard S.... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Litigation Strategy in EMC Corporation v. Donatelli (B) Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318027-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-020 Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (A) In summer of 2010, Murat Çavuşoğlu... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
process that has led to many successful product launches, but are there areas of customer need that are undervalued by the traditional process? A novel online customer analysis approach suggests untapped opportunities for innovation, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
http://hbr.org/search/113094-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-031 Microsoft Server & Tools In 2011, Microsoft's Server & Tools Business (STB) was large, fast growing, and highly profitable on the strength of traditional packaged product lines View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
taxing our companies on foreign income, which has led to dozens of companies moving their corporate headquarters offshore and American companies holding more than a trillion dollars of cash abroad rather than repatriate it. Almost all... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
bonds to relatively wealthy investors—became integrated in a quite novel way in the course of the 1960s. The rise of the so-called 'Eurobond' market was a major breakthrough in the history of European integration, but it was a largely spontaneous result of innovation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
slipped behind its Indian competitors and multinational companies. Details the first phase of the transformation Nayar led in hopes of rejuvenating the industry pioneer. The tagline for this phase was "Employee First, Customer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
intermediate results or, alternatively, one of closed secrecy around intermediate solutions. We observe the cumulative innovation process in each regime with fine-grained measures and are able to derive inferences with a series of cross-sectional comparisons. Open... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino