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- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Switzerland of Latin America.” Inspired by populist revolts against the status quo observable worldwide, Novick hoped he could ride popular momentum to break the political monopoly of the traditional parties and return the country to its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
would continue hedging primarily with forward contracts, but in much higher volumes and at increasingly unfavorable rates, or to break with past practice and begin using foreign exchange option contracts. The decision would have... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
Smartphone: How to Break the 24-7 Habit and Change the Way You Work Author:Leslie A. Perlow Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2012 Abstract Does it have to be this way? Can't resist checking your smartphone or mobile device?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
working on. At 3rd and Grand, he gestures to a parking lot. In his mind’s eye, he sees a new mixed-use building, with 230 residential units atop 20,000 square feet of retail space; the $50 million project is expected to break ground later... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
technology company that they planned to start. “Having to submit the plan formally and knowing it would be scrutinized forced us to spend a lot more time making sure all the details — especially the financials — were perfect,” says Bang Networks president Robert B.... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
case. Breaking into your office after hours might clearly feel wrong. However, transferring a file from one folder to another might not set the cricket in your conscience chirping in the same way. Similarly, if a work relationship has... View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
DaVita in 1999, breaking an important promise to his family in order to do so, he was determined to create a differentiated company with a community-like culture. Over six years, he had engineered an impressive financial turnaround and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
systems-change initiatives. By working with social entrepreneurs and philanthropists, the organization aims to break down barriers to opportunity in America. Jeff Walker (MBA 1981), chairman Rebuild Congress Initiative brings together... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
big firms’ appetite for technology, but also of their aversion at the time to acquiring it through potentially risky partnerships with innovative upstarts. And in part it was because B2B fintech, which is where much of the action in New York tends to be, is an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
into play. At HBS, students already have access to several winter break Immersion programs created to provide noncredit educational experiences that complement classroom work. Last January, four programs took students abroad to China and... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
Layoffs That Don't Break Your Company: Better Approaches to Workforce Transition By: Sucher, Sandra J., and Shalene Gupta Abstract—Today layoffs have become companies’ default response to the challenges created by advances in technology... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717498-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-034 Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past Over the past several decades,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
really confront gender and justice at work. But I think in order to solve the problem, we've got to break these respect wreckers down and just take each one in turn because all of these problems demand different responses. Dan: Now, you... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
Morrell: Now, the interest that you've had in living a sort of quantified life, your first year out of HBS, can you talk about what prompted it? Grana: I think, as a lot of people probably have, HBS is sort of a break from the real world.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
does the company stop losing money, and when does the company break even? A pretty easy quiz. Then Professor Pratt said that we would go over it in class. He revealed the correct answers to questions 1, 2, and 3 and I got all three... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
Cranium states its purpose as being “to lighten and enlighten people’s lives.” While Furlong believes that much of Cranium’s success centers on its founders’ due diligence, the high quality of Cranium products, and the company’s ability to View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
perceptions about Israel and Israelis on the right track and it was just a matter of time and scale before they bore fruit? What else could be done to break the indifference and emerging negative attitudes towards the country? Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
break out the fees they add to loans. 6. Create a National Advisory Board on Responsible Financial Innovation We are aware that all too often, the creation of a national advisory board is a substitute for real action. But in this case, it... View Details
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
brands in the advertisements they watch," says Teixeira, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School who has spent the last four years figuring out the factors that make or break online ads. "In the past, when a company launched a... View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
translation of Ratan Tata's (chairman of Tata Motors) vision of a safe affordable car for the masses by Ravi Kant, managing director of Tata Motors into the Nano Project. The case raises questions around breaking the price-quality barrier... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace