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- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
purely symbolic effects can materialize when former employers are highly prominent because these hires increase the hiring organization's market visibility. Leveraging an idiosyncratic feature of wine markets (i.e., the variable time lag... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
the iconic American Indian Motorcycle Company before going on to head Texas Industries, a cement-and-steel company that was sold last year to Martin Marietta Materials for $2 billion. Rogers showed an early interest in machines,... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017
leaders. These deliver worse material outcomes in general, but they reduce the feelings of betrayal during bad times. Some evidence consistent with our model is gathered from the Trump-Clinton 2016 election: on average, subjects primed... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
reasonable but firm deadline no later than twelve months from the start of the interim talks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2386291 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 314-031 StriveTogether:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
regressions should be complemented by realized-returns regressions. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1967706 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 713-074 Currency Wars In February 2013, the G-20... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44784 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 413-068 OrganJet and GuardianWings No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413068-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20
materials and invites discussion of the effectiveness of various approaches and the general lessons for the management of companies seeking to operate in an environmentally responsible manner. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9
with a low-cost and very simple operating system. The case explores all aspects of their system (mission, information management, material flows, human resource system, processes, etc.) and the challenges that the Dabbawala organization... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
must choose to improve an old technology (steel) or to develop a new material (carbon fiber). The decision must take into account a complicated context: increased demand for the "old" steel products made in Italy, increasing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
companies). Most CEOs rose in their company but a few came from outside. If they came from outside it was generally because the firm was in trouble and needed a turnaround. For example, Allan Leighton took over as chairman of the Royal Mail and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
StarNight Hotel Construction Bid: Real Time Competition on Schedule, Scope, and Cost Harvard Business School Case 209-067 The case is intended for use with the HBS Educational Technology Group "Construction Bidding Simulation." View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007
advantage. We propose several frameworks to help firms develop and exploit this new ability. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-079.pdf Cases & Course Materials Royal DSM N.V.: Information Technology Enabling... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
innovation within such a structure. In the 1930s and 1940s, Deans Wallace B. Donham and Donald K. David oversaw significant research on the importance of innovators to business. Much of this material was published in the Harvard Studies... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
developing course materials in family business; Assistant Professor Paul A. Gompers, who teaches first-year Finance; Assistant Professor Walter Kuemmerle, who teaches first-year Technology and Operations Management; and Associate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
process. Railroads are also indispensable for the shipment of agricultural products as well as factory-finished goods like consumer products and automobiles. Because railroads play an important role in the movement of both finished goods and raw View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
readings at the conclusion of a course lowered students’ confidence in their mastery of the course material they had already learned (Study 1). Encountering an optional learning opportunity increased the FONKIA, which mediated the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
authors will examine these and other major events in which Henry Kissinger played leading roles in order to extract their most important insights into the principles and practice of effective negotiation. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2532613 Cases... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
institutions for co-investing. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2159229 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 712-459 Netflix: Competitive Dynamics in the Consumer Video... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
years for these reductions to have a material impact on a city's unfunded liabilities. In fact, many cities are downsizing employment, rather than hiring new workers. Cities could require all public employee retirees to join Medicare when... View Details
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
expertise in the new composite materials being used in the airframe, integrating their work with other partners developing complementary technologies. Indeed, this type of project could never get off the ground without the ability to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne