Publications

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

mark-plans backfire, consumer preferences shift, or tried-and-true practices fail to work in a new context. So is innovation just a low-odds crapshoot? In The Architecture... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

not thousands of retirees saw their nest eggs evaporate because of their unwitting participation in a deliberately contrived Ponzi scheme that, View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

17 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

to in July and December. Now, we’ll look at what they have been doing to cope with the circumstances. Forced to stop and rethink every aspect of their View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

June 2011 (Revised June 2013)
Case

Sino-Ocean Land: Responding to Change

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Jeffrey Hu and Runjiao Xu

In 2010, Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Limited was a highly successful, large real estate developer based in Beijing, China. Sino-Ocean Land had three main business segments—property development, property investment/management, and other real estate related businesses. From... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Diversification; Property; Policy; State Ownership; Business Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Real Estate Industry; Beijing

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

that I've done over the course of the last 10 years has been field-based, working in conjunction with HBS student teams, partners View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

26 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

iStock In the 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross, an executive played by Alec Baldwin presents a unique motivational scheme to a trio of down-on-their-luck real estate salesmen.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

22 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807157 PSI: Social Marketing Clean Water Harvard Business School Case 507-052 Senior management at PSI, arguably the world's largest... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 31

increase in experience, consistent with learning on the job. Answerers who focus on particular question categories provide answers of higher quality but earn lower pay per hour... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2017 (Revised January 2019)
Case

FJ Management Inc.

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Matthew G. Preble

In late 2015, Crystal Call Maggelet, president and CEO of FJ Management, is working with her investment committee to help set the company’s strategic direction. Maggelet, daughter of the company’s founder, has led FJ Management since 2009 when she stepped in as CEO... View Details

08 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53003 Harvard Business School Case 717-445 AKB48: Going Global? (A) After a remarkable success in Japan, the producer View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13530 Cases & Course MaterialsBest Practices: Decision Making Among Venture Capital Firms Harvard Business School Note 804-176 Describes investment decision-making processes, based on interviews with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Feb 2016
First Look

February 16, 2016

embraced these progressive prescriptions for public-private regulation. This essay explains how a subset of USCC members fostered industry-wide "codes of fair competition" by participating View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
Case

Benetton Group S.p.A., 2012

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin

On May 31, 2012, after 36 years on the Milan Stock Exchange, Benetton was officially delisted and taken private by Edizione, the Benetton family's holding company. Since 2000, Benetton shareholders had seen its market value fall from $4.3 billion to $720 million at the... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Fashion; Retail; Privatization; Family Ownership; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Management Teams; Globalized Firms and Management; Change Management; Restructuring; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Italy