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- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
two questions. First, when (and why) should a company’s strategy be developed by its CEO versus by some outside analyst or other insider? Second, how does strategy interact with vision (in the sense of a strong belief about the right...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
Baily, 26-65. Brookings Institution Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2011/0211_home_mortgages_pozen/0211_home_mortgages_pozen.pdf Most Likely to Succeed: Leadership in the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a gritty New Delhi suburban View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
variety, process flexibility and even the path of industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software industry. Our research takes advantage of a natural experiment, in that we observe products that fulfill the same function...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
For example, managing earnings to meet analyst expectations may start out being rationalized as necessary to avoid undue volatility in the stock price but end up being used to artificially pump up the stock price so executives can...
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by Carla Tishler
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
and the Schultz Family Foundation, rates corporate employers on how they promote upward mobility for workers without college degrees. Amy’s focus on education and training is informed by her own experience entering the tech industry with...
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- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios By: Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Terry Burnham Abstract—We examine the optimal weighting of four tilts in U.S. equity markets...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
So, for example, creating incentives for industries to move into designated areas rather than, as he would say, ‘spreading like a rash.’ He brought meaning to the process.” “You find that people with two different viewpoints begin to...
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- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
industrial ecology literature that highlights the environmental benefits of by-product synergy. By-product synergy is defined as the conversion of a firm's waste stream from a manufacturing process into valuable feedstock for another...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
literature. The Teaching of Strategy: From General Manager to Analyst and Back Again? Author:Joseph L. Bower Publication:Journal of Management Inquiry 17, no. 4 (December 2008) Abstract Courses in strategy are an outgrowth of the business...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
specialist who is in charge of the privatization process for nearly two hundred Iraqi state-owned businesses, excluding the country’s oil industry and large utilities. HBS Students with Military Service in support of the Iraq and...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
“Each corporate partner donates a certain number of pro bono hours to Endeavor a year, and our offices allocate them to the entrepreneurs,” says Ko, who worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs before heading to HBS in 2003. “It’s a win-win...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
an appendix detailing 10 math facts numerate people should know. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students entering advanced data analytics courses, as well as data analysts and C-suite executives just starting out, The Numerate...
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- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
initiative with domestic, international, and U.N. fronts; and 3) launching a new venture requiring internal, capital-raising, licensing, and industrial partnering deals. The need to negotiate multiple, related deals is not new to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
expand internationally with a regional focus on East Asia or, alternatively, a focus on the U.S. and other Western markets. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708479 HNA Group: Moving China's Air...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
Report begins with identifying the most important financial and ESG metrics for the company in its given industry and the strategy it is pursuing to achieve its goals. In some cases, revenue growth may be critical; in others, earnings...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
in music and entertainment. A graduate of Georgetown University, Fordham Law School, and HBS (where he earned his MBA with distinction and won a fellowship from the George F. Baker Foundation), Feeley worked for four years with MitchellHutchins, Inc., as a security...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
of take comfort in that. But I’m also very excited about the addition of this new technology.” “Book publishing is an $80 billion industry in which half the money is wasted on making and moving around and sometimes destroying physical...
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- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Grupo Beta San Miguel In November 2013, Dr. Jose Pinto, head of Grupo Beta San Miguel (BSM), Mexico's largest private sugar producer, is weighing the future prospects of the Mexican sugar industry as he considers whether BSM should bid on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-042 Lenovo to Buy IBM PC: Integration Challenges In December 2004, Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo announced its purchase of IBM’s PC division. At the...
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Sean Silverthorne