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- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
environment, the entrepreneurs were often unable to capture sufficient profits to sustain businesses. Recycled-goods markets were volatile. There was also a tension between the constant waste stream on the collection side and a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
choices to optimally guide the other choices." This definition captures the idea of strategy as the core of an intended course of action that is potentially flexible and adaptive. It coincides with the equilibrium outcome of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
performance. Direct reports had to be let go through no fault of their own, and for some managers that felt worse. Overall, whether firing someone or laying someone off, the typical experience is captured in what one experienced manager... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
value is that all the people aren't seeing, and then visualizing it, and then putting a team together to capture that value. My name is Jennifer Tisdel Schorsch, and I'm MBA Class of 1992. My first job was in a shoe store, and my... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours Author:Tarun Khanna Publication:Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming Abstract China and India, occupied by a third of the world's population, are undergoing social and economic revolutions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
tail in action-reviewing sales data from Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen VideoScan, the online music service Rhapsody, and the Australian DVD-by-mail service Quickflix. What she found may surprise you: Blockbusters are capturing even more of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
captured during its daily interactions with shareholders and market analysts. As a first step, he put a formalized process in place to collect and present it in a more systematic way. The team, for example, keeps a record of investor... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
the hostages released with Gillis; he wrote Bradley a thank-you note and then a second thank-you note once he had a fuller realization of the effort involved. “Katherine and I have taught our three boys that life is long, and this is a good example, because within a... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
Business School: We Mean Business.” After class, I drove the bike out of the classroom and down the stairs, which was captured on film by a photographer from the Harbus (check the Harbus archives for the first or second week of January... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
new distribution called the tilted-Gompertz distribution. This model can capture the wide range of skewed diffusions commonly found in practice—diffusions of innovations described as having “extra-Bass” skew. Second, its parameters can be... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
meaningful, not idiosyncratic, differences while not going so long that we ended up capturing noise from other changes in the working environment; we were careful to compare apples-to-apples by ensuring, for example, that interactions... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
search ads may return to the restaurant later without using Yelp; that would be a long-term benefit to the restaurant, but not captured in our Yelp outcome measures.” Given the research findings, Luca recommends that business executives... View Details
- 25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006
premia, real interest rates and inflation. The variation in investment opportunities is captured by a flexible vector autoregressive parameterization, which readily accommodates a large number of assets and state variables. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
conclusions, I am largely encouraged by what I see. Simply based on numerous snapshots from the front—conveniently captured and transmitted by embedded correspondents—I sense an organization and leaders largely comfortable with their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
above and beyond than what Mama asked. Fu’s playful humor and bouncy rhythms, set against Julie Kwon’s expressive illustrations, perfectly captures how a plucky daughter’s exuberance and a tired mom come together amidst the beautiful... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
recognized the urgency for a change in its business model from the traditional “Windows first” strategy, with its reliance mainly on the sales of on-premises licensed software. Thus, the company began to shift its strategy to an “AI/cloud first” strategy to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
interpersonal construct that captures listening, understanding, validation, and care. We measure responsiveness with an attitudinal measure from previous research as well as a novel behavioral measure: the number of follow-up questions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51662 Integrated Strategy: Residual Market Imperfections as the Foundation of Sustainable Competitive Advantage By: Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Dennis A. Yao Abstract—Market imperfections are central to understanding the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
investors. People who owned their homes took advantage of this equity buildup, some becoming what he termed "serial refinancers." "What used to be a goal of people like my parents to someday have no mortgage, all of a sudden was forgotten. And the new... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
famously standing up to Steve Jobs’s plan to eliminate Apple’s US warehouses and decentralize distribution. (The details were captured in the 1986 HBS case, “Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc.”) She and Hawkins then teamed up to... View Details