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  • 24 Nov 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Valuation When Cash Flow Forecasts Are Biased

Keywords: by Richard S. Ruback
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Sam Walton: Great From the Start

contained no renewal clause. Options to renew were standard features of leases such as the one Walton had originally entered into. L. S. Robson, Walton's father-in-law, was reportedly shocked by Walton's... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

enterprise, the future is not something that just happens. It is something they create. —Richard S. Tedlow A born empire builder, Carnegie could see in the early 1870s that steel was destined to transform the material basis of... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
  • 07 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School

Date: April 17-18, 2008 Faculty Chair: Richard S. Tedlow Faculty Summary Report: Colloquium: The Intellectual History of the Harvard Business School: Six Case Studies What were the overall goals of the... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Education
  • 24 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy

The world's fair in New York City at the end of the depression decade was a big deal. Planning began in 1935. The fairgrounds covered 1,216.5 acres in what had been a garbage dump in Queens. By opening day, April 30, 1939, the moonscape... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

Press, 2001. This excerpt is taken with permission from a contributed essay in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives And Investors Manage High-Tech Risks, edited by Lewis M. Branscomb and Phillip E. Auerswald. Chesbrough and... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Promoting a Management Revolution in Public Education

Keywords: by Stacey M. Childress, Richard Elmore & Allen S. Grossman; Education
  • 23 Jul 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Creative Consulting Company

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan, Richard Nolan, and David P. Norton; Consulting
  • 29 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

biographer Richard S. Tedlow puts it, Grove was "one of the master managers in the history of American business." A new biography, Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American, will debut next... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer
  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate

Harvard Business School professors Richard S. Tedlow and Rawi Abdelal, who provided a historical perspective on Levitt's work at the Globalization of Markets colloquium held May 28-30. The twentieth-year... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2011 (Revised June 2013)
  • Case

Businesses for Sale by Briggs Capital, 2010

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Briggs Capital was a regional mergers and acquisitions advisory firm that helped owners to sell their small firms. The case presents a company that was for sale in the fall of 2010—a troubled manufacturer of post and beam style homes and log homes. Using the actual... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Exit or Shutdown; Entrepreneurship; Financial Condition; Investment; Financial Services Industry; Boston
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  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

faculty, whose scholarship and teaching skills attract hundreds of Harvard MBA students to their classrooms each year. Among the latest books by HBS historians are publications by Professor Chandler,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 09 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

Podcast with: Richard TedlowInterviewer: James AisnerRunning Time: 29 min., 09 sec.Transcript My name is Jim Aisner and I am Director of Media Relations at Harvard Business School. This is the first in a series of podcasts for the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer
  • 29 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

the men who had led IBM to near-disaster in the 1980s. Fighting denial is not a matter of IQ. It is a matter of point of view. Excerpt From denial: Why Business Leaders Fail To Look Facts In The Face—and What To Do About It By View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology
  • 06 Aug 2021
  • Book

Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

Richard S. Tedlow, MBA Class of 1949 Emeritus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author of the forthcoming book, The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership, which will... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • December 2017
  • Article

Overall Cost Comparison of Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures with Endoscopist- or Anesthesia-Supported Sedation by Activity-Based Costing Techniques

By: Richard A. Helmers, James A. Dilling, Christopher R. Chaffee, Mark V. Larson, Bradly J. Narr, Derek A. Haas and Robert S. Kaplan
Endoscopic/Colonoscopic procedures are done either with gastroenterologist-administered conscious sedation or with anesthesia-administered sedation with propofol. Anesthesia-administered sedation has medical and patient benefits but is more expensive to administer. We... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Activity Based Costing and Management
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  • Research Summary

The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Since World War II, a handful of individuals have helped transform the face of modern-day leadership, making charisma essential to the role.  In The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership, Richard S. Tedlow examines how pioneers like Steve Jobs, Oprah... View Details

  • October 2009
  • Supplement

Noble Group (CW)

By: C. Fritz Foley and Matthew Johnson
What role does trade finance play in facilitating global supply chain management? Richard S. Elman, founder and CEO of Noble Group Ltd., a global commodities trading company based in Hong Kong, must raise capital to support the firm's working capital and investment... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Supply Chain Management; Trade; Global Strategy; Investment; Capital; Hong Kong
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  • October 2009
  • Case

Noble Group

By: C. Fritz Foley, Michael Shih-ta Chen, Matthew Johnson and Linnea Meyer
What role does trade finance play in facilitating global supply chain management? Richard S. Elman, founder and CEO of Noble Group Ltd., a global commodities trading company based in Hong Kong, must raise capital to support the firm's working capital and investment... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Capital; Financing and Loans; International Finance; Globalized Firms and Management; Risk Management; Supply Chain Management; Hong Kong
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Technological Change and Competitive Strategy

Richard S. Rosenbloom continues to explore issues in the strategic management of technology and the relationship between technological change and competitive strategy. He is currently investigating the histories of radical technological innovations and their... View Details

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