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- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
revenue streams, he wondered how to maintain their entrepreneurial culture that he saw as a prerequisite for this—particularly their lean hierarchy and researchers' freedom to follow innovation where it led them—in a company of more than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
public and Knight, its founder-CEO, still owned close to half of the company. He had led the company through dramatic changes as it evolved from a scrappy start-up to a large public company. However, now, barely half a decade later,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
because they have never led anything. "He can't possibly mean our students," says Light. "Just go talk to them. They know what leadership is. In our classrooms we have plenty of students who have had real positions of... View Details
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
factories to make flat-panel displays. The next thing to watch is the replacement of the incandescent lighbulb. The lighting industry is moving to LED technology at a very high speed. And all the LED... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Amidst the duality of success and distress in his life, Gossett forged a meaningful life path, marked by resilience and perseverance. In 2006, his desire to make an even greater impact led him to create the Eracism Foundation. Eracism was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17
exponential technological progress has led to a dramatic decrease in information constraints. In a range of contexts, information costs approach zero. In this chapter, we discuss how sharply reduced information costs enable organizations... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
University Mays School of Business and at Erasmus Academie Rotterdam in June 2009, and a version is taught at the Erasmus University Law School.) The course is still under development and will be for several more years. The research project that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
record US$1.9 billion, but the firm, led by Zhang Xin, refocused in 2012 on a “build-to-hold” strategy in an effort to capture the long-term value of its properties. Zhang also saw an opportunity to capitalize on the rapidly growing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
relationships when it instead primarily encourages newcomers to express their personal identities. In a field experiment carried out in a large business process outsourcing company, we found that initial socialization focused on personal identity (emphasizing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
detail, internal events that led to the creation of this pilot. It examines details of the water market relevant in Intel's decision to move the pilot forward. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412100-PDF-ENG Tough... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
technological advances in transportation, spatial characteristics of population distributions, and advances in farming technologies have led to a dominant economies-of-scale model of production, distribution, and retailing in fresh... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
effective depended upon the situation (Fiedler, Tannenbaum and Schmidt, and Vroom and Yetton). This work was an integral part of the wave of organizational behavior research that led to what we labeled a "Contingency Theory" of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
research process that led to many of the critical breakthrough concepts and algorithms for the field and the training of PhDs, who then created companies that brought the new technology to the marketplace. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
SchleferHarvard Business School Case 711-016 Since emerging from decades of conflict in 2002, Angola has been growing at a scorching double-digit rate, led by its oil industry. But the nation remains beset with seemingly intractable... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
risky collateral led to a dramatic expansion in the issuance of structured securities, most of which were viewed by investors to be virtually risk-free and certified as such by the rating agencies. At the core of the recent financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
of those children. Using data from an online charity that solicits donations for school projects, we found that proposals accompanied by images of older African American students (Grades 6-12) led to fewer donations than proposals with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
erupted both in Congress and in the press and this ruckus led DP World to promise that it would relinquish the U.S. terminals of P&O. Also contains a brief description of Dubai and its relationship to the U.S., a discussion of issues... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
vicissitudes in history, as with mercantilism—the idea that a state would be better off by making its neighbor poorer—which dominated in Europe for centuries and led to many wars. And then globalization increased in the early 1900s until... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
doing so, we match the data from the CEO interviews with financial performance data for the set of firms led by those CEOs as well as market performance data from the countries in which these firms are headquartered. Our results suggest... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia
the opportunity to withhold information from their husbands about access to contraception. The results? Providing cheap and convenient forms of birth control led to a reduction in unwanted births only when women were given full autonomy... View Details