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- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
need? What is the optimal setting and context in which they should be delivering care? What processes should they use? There are all sorts of operating managerial and strategic View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
low-cost strategy, eliminating management choice going forward? And do such strategies have much longer lives than those associated with other forms of differentiation among offerings to customers? When does...
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- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
contribute to decision theory and management. Their work most applicable to business, however, was often overshadowed by that of economists. But as the assumptions of rational behavior View Details
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by James Heskett
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
When people contemplate a career change, astute thinking alone won’t necessarily take them in the right direction. Instead, when career changes and other huge life-changing experiences are at stake, people should tap into their “full...
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- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
agencies embraced the new attitudes toward the private sector. They saw little choice but to turn to foreign investment. The result was that the nationalizations of foreign investors that had characterized the 1960s View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
Self-Knowledge, Unconscious Thought, and Decision Making Authors:Maarten W. Bos and Ap Dijksterhuis Publication:In Handbook of Self-Knowledge, edited by Simine Vazire View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- March 2009
- Supplement
Groupe Eurotunnel S.A. (B): Restructuring Under the Procedure de Sauvegarde
By: Stuart C. Gilson, Vincent Marie Dessain and Sarah Abbott
In mid-2007 the chairman and CEO of Eurotunnel Group, having elected to file for bankruptcy under a newly-enacted French insolvency law, awaits the outcome of a vote by creditors and shareholders. At least 50% of the shareholders must approve the plan, however they...
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Law;
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Assets;
Investment Funds;
Voting;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Ownership;
Outcome or Result;
France
Gilson, Stuart C., Vincent Marie Dessain, and Sarah Abbott. "Groupe Eurotunnel S.A. (B): Restructuring Under the Procedure de Sauvegarde." Harvard Business School Supplement 209-113, March 2009.
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706438 Rovná Daň: The Flat Tax in Slovakia Harvard Business School Case 707-043 Explores the tax policy choices made by Slovakia and the impact...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
the negative information paralyze customers? While knowing a product’s trade-offs clarified decisions for many Commonwealth Bank customers, diligently detailing every trade-off could overwhelm people, driving them to abandon the View Details
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by Danielle Kost
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
Q: When is a trash can not a trash can? A: When it’s a Wi-Fi hotspot, air-purity monitor, and advertising billboard—all in one. Bigbelly solar-powered trash cans have been street corner fixtures in Philadelphia, Boston, New York, View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
dilemmas-challenging decisions that feature tradeoffs between competing and seemingly incompatible values. Moral insight consists of discovering solutions that move beyond selecting one conflicting ethical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
allocation such as heuristics, decision rules, and "bottom up" approaches still effective in today's complex marketing environment? To help practicioners answer this question, Harvard Business School...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
September 2016 Harvard Business Review How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—The toughest calls managers have to make come in situations when they have worked hard to gather the facts View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
assessments for 462 of 774 occupations, or a rate of 60 percent. (As an aside, few, if any, of the students knew of Blinder's original study, and none were given access to the decision tree he used in...
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by Julia Hanna
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
PublicationsSetting Health Priorities: Strategy versus Tactics Authors:Chu, Michael, David E. Bloom, and Elizabeth Cafiero Publication:Impact: The Magazine of PSI Abstract Health decision makers throughout...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
million from advertising. The new CEO had to decide which of these three revenue sources he should focus on in the future and how this choice would influence the target customers, the service offerings,...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Philipp Schäelli
would be the ideal place to achieve all these 3 goals. It's very strong reputation and career support services allowed me to explore all types of different career options. With the strong foundation of the first year curriculum, View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20
Publication:Journal of Consumer Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract In four studies in which consumers assembled IKEA boxes, folded origami, and built sets of Legos, we demonstrate and investigate boundary...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
Colgate. Policy Bundling to Overcome Risk Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Organizational Behavior View Details
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Sean Silverthorne