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- 20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
attained top positions in corporations or professional services firms. These women thrived, they found, because of three characteristics that are key to resilience: emotional intelligence, authenticity, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006
Course MaterialsCellular Service Harvard Business School Case 707-424 Background on cellular service technology and "friends and family" plans as foundation for discussing network effects. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make
What if businesses could learn from their worst mistakes without actually making them? How might the same progress and innovation occur, without firms incurring the costs associated with such errors? The results of a recent study about... View Details
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
says. Porter provides the example of a company focused on high-end features and service that is tempted during a recession to cut back in response to a customer’s price concerns. This is the wrong move, he says. By cutting back on what... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006
Strategic Value Advisors—predict environmental performance. We find that firms that have more KLD Environmental Concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory violations in later years than View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online
Professor Ryan Buell Gain a systematic approach for delivering standout services and experiences that provide a competitive edge and build customer loyalty. 4 weeks, 5-6 hrs/week Enroll by March 20 $1,850 Certificate Complete any three... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
a three-year study of 238 professionals from seven companies in the high-tech, consumer products, and chemicals industries. Without revealing the focus of their study, they asked the subjects (all of whom were working on projects... View Details
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Team - Case Method Project
working in historical interpretation and education with the National Park Service to Case Method Institute. She received her B.A. in History and B.A. in International Relations from University of California, Davis. While completing her... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
Silverstein needs to raise an additional $1.5 million from private investors to round out the equity financing for his new Quick Service Restaurant venture in China, Korea, and Japan. How should he pitch the opportunity? What should be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15
case considers the challenges professional service firm employees face in terms of work-life issues. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410112-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Conversational Leadership
Instead, they are adopting a conversational approach. In their new book, Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations, Groysberg and communication professional Michael Slind show how several global... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online
strategic decisions Value a venture, project, or investment opportunity and perform a sensitivity analysis Who Will Benefit College Students and Recent Graduates Those Considering an MBA Mid-Career Professionals Learn the language of... View Details
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
yourself Who Will Benefit Early-Career Financial Services Professionals Aspiring Finance or Investment Professionals Non-Finance Professionals... View Details
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
Phillip Andrews, HBS Career & Professional Development, 617.495.6086, phandrews@hbs.edu . GO Fellowship applicants and recipients agree to abide by the HBS Community Values and the MBA Honor Code . Awards Award amounts are determined... View Details
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
partner at Lehman Brothers, assumed leadership of the firm in 1969, the first non-family member to do so. The investment house suffered a decline in business aggravated by the oil crisis in 1973. That year, Peter Peterson, formerly... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
elite patronage, the canal could operate as a commercial enterprise free of adverse political interference. Under the Panama Canal Authority, the canal professionalized its management and began making long-term investments with an eye to... View Details
- 29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
client portfolio. The case enables a discussion of different types of clients in a global professional service firm in terms of relative revenues, profitability, and strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The experimental evaluation design randomly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
improve climate and environmental impacts, and to create public disclosures. In addition to his work on sustainable finance, Dan also serves public sector entities and commercial firms to improve their operational performance and better... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
controlled for industry and stage in the business cycle.” Bob Vanourek, citing results of a study by the McKinsey Global Institute, said that long-term oriented firms in its sample “outperformed the short-termers in revenue growth,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett