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  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

case:http://hbr.org/search/913701-PDF-ENG Convertible Notes in Angel Financing Ramana Nanda and William R. KerrHarvard Business School Note 813-017 This View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2002
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Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life

has attended more than one hundred dog shows across the country, converted an outdated mainframe computer system to a client server system, streamlined internal procedures, cut expenses, introduced DNA as part of the dog registration... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

things, and events. They provide contexts in which executives and employees can interact to create new meaning. Phronetic leaders use metaphors and stories to convert their experience into tacit knowledge that others can use. They exert... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent characteristic) at one end of the spectrum and high frequency reversal at the other. Unlike... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

business. It is argued that the country of origin of a technological innovation is less economically important than the ability of a society to capitalize on that innovation and convert it into profitable business opportunities.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14

country—in areas such as Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia. Alejandro's looming decision on Los Pozos is, in many ways, reflective of choices facing his company in general. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211011-PDF-ENG Farmland Investing: A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2003
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Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

financial and strategic decision making. But along the way, I also noted another important aspect of this leadership task, a related line of effort that seemed to go largely unnoticed and unstudied by observers but that was just as vital... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 17 Nov 2016
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Wired for Innovation

Horizon Wind Energy. “It was a very small business, but we got lucky with land positions and were able to build it to pretty good scale,” notes Skelly, who served as the company’s chief development officer. “When it got too big for the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4

converted from not-for-profit to for-profit. The case describes its Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and asks whether it should continue this experiment. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

What is it about HBS that has produced such a steady stream of remarkable entrepreneurs whose endeavors have changed American life in the postwar decades? The creative impact of the case method, as noted earlier, should not be... View Details
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

operations? 2) What might be the intellectual added value of such a perspective? 3) What are the basic elements of behavioral operations research? Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-096.pdf Film Rentals and Procrastination: A Study of Intertemporal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407049 Analyzing Relative Costs Harvard Business School Note 708-462 Introduces students to the technique of relative cost analysis, a core technique of strategists. Among the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

Harvard President Drew Faust herself noted at the start of the conference, women are still underrepresented at the top levels of government and business, both in the United States and abroad. Only 4 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are women;... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
  • 08 Jul 2024
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The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

important part of how businesses operate, and that can only increase going forward.” “Increasingly, the tech architectures inside firms are a source of competitive advantage.” In a new industry and background note written with HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
  • 01 Jun 2008
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A Binary Formula

Harvard’s initiatives in stem cells, bio-inspired engineering, systems biology, chemical biology, and innovative computing. The colloquium featured a number of case studies about academic labs as well as private-sector firms that are setting operational and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; science; research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 01 Dec 2006
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One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

is, having chicken any way you want it. But there’s no single ad that’s going to convert you. The effectiveness derives from a thousand teeny things that, over time, can get you to believe that this is a brand that I want to spend time... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

and waste" mentality to a "product and product" mentality, and thereby actively manage the quantities of both products to maximize profit. We find that it is almost never profit-maximizing for the firm to continue business-as-usual producing the primary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2002
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How to Look at Globalization Now

political scientist Karl Deutsch and associates, relying on research conducted in the early 1950s, emphasized that the internationalization of transactions had declined significantly since the beginning of the 20th century, and averred that this trend was unlikely to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

with a similarly large effect upon reversal of the U.S. monetary policy stance. This result is robust across different geographic regions and industries and holds for U.S. and non-U.S. lenders, including those with little direct exposure... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

whether the fruits of a positive macro-level shock have been expropriated by insiders. Using the example of Indian firms, we show that an influential finding is reversed when we take these differences into account. We further argue that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel