Publications

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

[Editor’s note: This is the third installment of a continuing series on issues that 600 CEOs told us keeps them awake at night. Today's topic: The challenges of making organizational decisions in this uncertain environment.] While we may... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

July – August 2010
Article

Are You Ignoring Trends That Could Shake Up Your Business?

By: Elie Ofek and Luc Wathieu

Virtually all managers in consumer businesses recognize major social, economic, and technological trends. But many do not consider the profound ways in which trends--especially those that seem unrelated to their core markets--influence consumers' aspirations,... View Details

Keywords: Trends; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Product Development

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October 2010 (Revised July 2012)
Supplement

Toni Sacconaghi at Sanford C. Bernstein

By: Linda A. Hill and Dana Teppert

Toni Sacconaghi, a senior sell-side equity research analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein covering U.S. IT hardware companies, thinks about the challenges and opportunities presented by the firm's new office in Hong Kong. Sacconaghi was previously the only analyst covering... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Research; Social and Collaborative Networks; Financial Services Industry; Hong Kong; United States

31 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

research was conducted; and what the findings mean for business leaders, raters, and policymakers. Martha Lagace: How important are trustworthy credit ratings in the financial system? Could you give us some background? Bo Becker: Credit... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations... View Details

August 1999 (Revised September 1999)
Case

Double Dealmaking in the Browser Wars (A)

By: James K. Sebenius

Recounts two complex negotiations in which Netscape and Microsoft compete to win a browser contract with AOL--then later with KPMG. After reviewing the web and browser sectors, this case recounts AOL's dramatic negotiations with Netscape and with Microsoft over which... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Deal; Web; Web Services Industry

01 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 1

been more desirable, as a policy matter, but is now a missed opportunity. Using this experience on staggered boards as a motivating case study, the article then examines a policy choice regarding Section 203 of the Delaware corporate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Planned Giving - Alumni

Giving Planned Giving Giving Planned Giving Leave a Legacy Through planned giving, you can use a variety of strategies and assets to support HBS during your lifetime or at your passing, while also fulfilling your financial planning goals.... View Details

28 Jul 2023
Blog Post

How I Landed My Manufacturing Internship at HBS

coffee chats; it’s better to have more information, not less. CPD is a fantastic resource, but the best way to make use of their services is to be specific in requests for help. Regarding applications... View Details

05 Jul 2012
What Do You Think?

Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

fulfilled (Kamal Hossain); (6) behaviors of managers who "compete with each other to climb to the next higher level" and make unfulfilled promises to do so (Subrata Chakraborty); (7) a "modern fashion of us all being... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

Dionne Whitby Miami Lakes Educational Center Miami, FL CO Aubrey White STEM School Highlands Ranch Littleton, CO MA Jackie White Danvers High School Danvers, MA Subjects: US History II, VHS Economics, View Details

March 1994
Case

Fremont Financial Corporation (B)

Fremont has a third option to finance its loan portfolio, which involves securitizing and selling the small-business loans into the capital markets. Emphasizes asymmetric information and moral hazard problems involved in designing an asset securitization. When used in... View Details

Keywords: Capital Markets; Financial Markets; Corporate Finance; Financial Services Industry

12 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

using simulated reinforcement learning agents, we find that both in settings where subjects are given complete information about auction payoff rules and in settings where they are given no information about auction payoff rules, subjects... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

December 2000
Background Note

Online Market Makers

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Chris Hackett

Describes the business model for online market makers, firms that use the Internet to organize a marketplace, providing participants with a virtual "place" to trade, rules to govern their exchanges, and infrastructure to support trading. First it proposes a definition... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Web Services Industry