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- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
decided to evaluate strategic alternatives due to financial difficulties. Parks Capital must now decide whether to acquire U.S. Retail, to fund ACCM so it acquires U.S. Retail, or to sit on the sidelines. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
But the literature on behavioral economics suggests an alternative interpretation, which is that people might simply be sticking with the default [option] and not taking the time to enroll. In this case, the default matters a lot. A paper... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
advantage of this overlap between the need for better education and the instincts of a business community to fill that market need. Clark: Public education has declined, so I think there needs to be some new way of providing quality learning. Business can help with... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
failures. To work well, marketplaces have to provide thickness, i.e., they need to attract a large enough proportion of the potential participants in the market; they have to overcome the congestion that thickness can bring, by making it possible to consider enough... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
supplier thinks about ways to get the product/service out to the customer. If the company achieves its sales goals, it lulls the company into the assumption that the channels must be right. For all you know an alternate channel might have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
displace traditional hydrocarbons as the primary source for energy, particularly for large scale transportation, for at least the next 10 to 15 years. We think, and I personally believe, that traditional demand for hydrocarbons will continue to grow, even as technology... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
interpretation by providing evidence against alternative mechanisms, such as income effects, human capital accumulation, and trade-induced changes in inequality. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Harvard Business School Case 314-097 Furloughs: An Alternative to Layoffs for Economic Downturns This note describes the practice of employee furloughs (also known as work sharing or short-time work) including their regulatory frameworks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
addition, she must consider Intel's proposal in light of the alternative approaches pursued by other corporations that have recently confronted the problem of underwater employee stock options. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
bankruptcy. In the post-Milken era, Gilson points to a hybrid approach that has blurred the line between Chapter 11 and restructuring, offering alternatives to "free-fall" bankruptcy. Prepackaged and prenegotiated bankruptcy... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
of their organizations, they need to follow the patterns of their male colleagues"—Deborah Kolb In this process, the negotiator must come to see her own value and find ways to make it visible, gain from the experience of others in similar circumstances, explore... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
agreement is reached. That is, what is your Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement, or BATNA (Fisher and Ury 1981)? By thinking about this alternative, you can better assess your reservation price, or the point above or below which... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
rabid users, and learn what we could from them,” Lin explains. They learned that the app’s biggest fans were parents of new babies and young children, often with faraway grandparents eager for updates. “They were looking for a way to share baby updates in a private... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-064.pdf Comparing the Cash Policies of Public and Private Firms By: Farre-Mensa, Joan Abstract—I document that public U.S. firms hold twice as much cash as large privately held firms, a surprising finding that is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
information when told that previous respondents have made sensitive disclosures. We provide evidence of the process underlying this effect and rule out alternative explanations by showing that information on others' propensity to disclose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
good weather. When the weather is bad, individuals appear to focus more on their work than on alternate outdoor activities. We investigate the proposed relationship between worse weather and higher productivity through four studies: (1)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
Peter Roberts outlines the alternatives JLL's top management analyzed as they considered how to move the organization forward. This case is the second in a case series that also comprises cases A, C, and D, and collectively covers JLL's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Juan Eyzaguirre
political office, Juan's answer is clear: "I don’t think so, that scares me a little bit. I don’t see a very clear path immediately after school, but I value the exploration phase I'm in now. I'm talking with so many people, with companies that come on campus, and... View Details
- 26 Oct 2011
- News
On Top, Down Under
team, avoiding group think, and embracing alternative points of view. Often I would read a case and think I had the answers. I’d later discuss the case with my living group and realize that I may have taken a narrow view of the issues.... View Details