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- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
Arkansas. As I worked on Giants of Enterprise, I found to my surprise that my subjects all shared a number of traits, and these became the key lessons of the book. For instance, someone once said, "If you don't stand for something,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
process in jeopardy. At the same time, the company has a second drug, Byetta, in its pipeline. Graham must decide how to manage the company's limited resources while also finalizing another deal that has huge future potential. Graham... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
other resources but found no definitive answer there either. An article from the previous month’s National Geographic hinted that another mountain in western China, which the magazine called Amnyi Machen, might also rival Everest. It was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
balance of strengths, weaknesses, and interests worked out pretty well. I had some experience in strategy before HBS but not so much in finance, so I benefited from sharing in Amyn’s experiences at Goldman Sachs. This was really useful... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
such as, "Other less mobile cultures have more centralized cities, with tighter cultures and families; the United States has urban sprawl, massively wasteful resource usage, looser nuclear families, and much less sense of community." Most... View Details
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institute or program of or associated with Harvard University, or (b) entitles you to access or use the resources or receive any benefits or privileges of any of the foregoing entities beyond the Programs. In some cases, we may offer... View Details
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
markets, where they were losing market share to the likes of Apple and Samsung, or defend its market leadership in the low-margin, high-volume emerging markets. This case poses the following questions: Should Nokia stay the course,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
analyzing the size of their addressable markets, to figuring out how they will scale their businesses to satisfy demand. And members of all three groups can serve as resources well beyond the program itself, investing in the startups they... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
entire album at once and exclusively via the Apple iTunes Store, without any prior promotion-a significant, and potentially very risky, departure from how music was traditionally released. Sony Music's label Columbia Records, with whom Parkwood partnered on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
costs and profit margins; initial sales also influence the venture's trajectory of organizational skills because firms develop capabilities and routines in interactions with customers. There is also an opportunity cost: money, time, and people allocated to customer A... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
and the established literatures on resource allocation and incumbent spin-outs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51520 Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
pattern common to important narratives around the world. A supporting website facilitates sharing of teaching materials and experiences by faculty using the case series. We report results from using this curriculum with undergraduate and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
resources is hard to do," Childress continues. "There isn't a single, focused goal, such as net income or earnings per share. However, those very challenges — working on the multifaceted issues that face nonprofits, in a less well-defined... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
really fun time since receiving my degree from HBS more than 40 years ago. I’m happy to share some examples of the choices and tradeoffs I’ve made along the way. Perhaps some of my insights will prove useful to younger alumni. For most... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
climate change, and economic resource nationalism. Readers will learn how risk management is being transformed from a business prevention function to a values-based framework for thriving in increasingly perilous times. Smarter Faster... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
dataset of firms from the U.S. and seven European countries we study the impact of ICT on worker autonomy, plant manager autonomy, and span of control. Consistent with the theory, we find that better information technologies (Enterprise View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
building a network of community leaders to establish and maintain these arisans, and share in the profit of any sales. It was another way for entrepreneurs in Indonesia’s villages to build wealth and savings. It had been a years-long... View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
occupancy, providing a "spillover" effect. We find that the effects of inpatient workload on LOS spillover across patient types, which we theorize results from most inpatients, regardless of type, utilizing the same shared View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Abstract—Seven experiments explore people's decisions to share or withhold personal information and the wisdom of such decisions. When people choose not to reveal information—to be "hiders"—they are judged negatively by others... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
create social distance, or a lack of emotional connection, that leads to misunderstandings and mistrust. To help global team leaders manage effectively, the author shares her SPLIT framework for mitigating social distance. It has five... View Details