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- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
feeds the average sports junkie's need for speed and excitement. "I don't know if you know it, but a Tesla is almost as quick from 0 to 60 as a Ferrari," Higgins... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
important determinant of delegation and the provision of incentives. Using a sample of convenience store chains, we show that market-type dispersion is related to the degree of franchising at the chain level as well View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
and other distributions as opposed to purely growth. What, if anything, could Woolf and other farmers do to influence the outcome? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510033-PDF-ENG Looking for Opportunity in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/bgjs13_84709dcc-425f-4fe2-8600-0f8cbb50be16.pdf August 2013 The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management The Case Method By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—The case method was developed concurrently with the emergence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998) in that its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
had established a reputation as a provider of some of the district's best-prepared new teachers. Yet Solomon wondered if their approach so far was optimal going forward. Carol Johnson, the new superintendent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
show that overall creditor recovery rates are higher, and unsecured creditor recoveries and post-bankruptcy survival rates are not different when bankrupt firms sell businesses as going concerns. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
men is exacerbated by several other important factors. Women in business and financial industries tend to move up the managerial ladder at a slower pace, so they stay in lower paying positions much longer. Women often choose... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
such as conforming to the status hierarchy when it comes time to make a decision (for example, "She's been here the longest, so let's just go with her idea"), the opportunity for utilizing relevant expertise... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
policy, scale, and entrenched competition have erected formidable barriers to entry. The major global giants like Amazon and eBay have either exited the market or not even tried to enter it. Thus, think of Alibaba as a pure China play... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
exposure is not much of an issue. A convertible bond can be viewed as a simple coupon paying corporate bond plus a conversion option. A bond pricing model discounts the promised payments at a rate that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
debilitating effects of interpersonal fear on collective learning processes. Q: How do you define learning? How does learning promote performance? A: I define learning as a process: A process of action,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
If you want to become good at early-stage investing, you need to learn how to size up the fundamental elements of an opportunity. Many investors use checklists or think of evaluation View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
authors go beyond the common belief of retail as a monolithic industry and provide a framework that any brick-and-mortar retailer can use to respond to the eCommerce threat. Through six examples, this book... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
which other online upstarts such as Amazon.com changed retail and Square changed the small business payments business. A few factors account for the rapid growth of the entrants. First, institutional debt and equity investors have been... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
April 2016 Harvard Business Review Can You Cut 'Turn Times' Without Adding Staff? By: Bernstein, Ethan, and Ryan W. Buell Abstract—The president of RSA Ground, the subsidiary of Rising Sun Airlines responsible for servicing its planes at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
that whom you know can be just as important as what you know when trying to offset the uncertainty inherent in backing a high-risk startup in an... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
feature-level entry choices. In addition, we contribute to work on dominant designs, going beyond characterizing a dominant design as a set of technological choices to understanding cognitive convergence on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
individual contributor role. Go into the job with mistaken assumptions about what to expect, and you just may be blindsided by surprising realities. This book helps you lay the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
says, "but lack of talented people starved them both." The situation was dramatically different with CarOrder.com, which was able to hire approximately two-thirds of its technical employees through Trilogy's on-campus recruiting process, widely acknowledged... View Details