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- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
Lawrence noted years ago, is "the vehicle by which a chunk of reality is brought into the classroom to be worked over by the class and the instructor." Most cases require students to assume the role of the protagonist and to...
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by David A. Garvin
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
ahead of him—in a recent election, he almost beat a heavily entrenched incumbent. Tony is a veteran, with a Silver Star for bravery in Korea, and an entrepreneur. With his good friend Max, another attorney, he has started a law firm and made large View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Iraq: A Land Between Two Rivers No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717033-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-041 The Rise Fund: TPG Bets Big on Impact It is March 2017, and TPG, a global View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
is invested and aid has a small but insignificant effect on growth. Aid has no effect on the financial account, but does raise holdings of foreign reserves. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases &...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
middle of the night), are you thinking about the right issues as you ponder how the future will change your business? The answers to these questions can be tough, and their full implications are not always immediately clear. I provide a real-world guide to the various...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
of Equity Market Anomalies: Translating Market Inefficiencies into Effective Investment Strategies, 117-128. John Wiley & Sons, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
strategies and tactics can be a helpful vehicle for clarifying an organization's theory of change. Basking in Reflected Glory: Symbolic and Substantive Implications of Winemaker Mobility Authors:Peter Roberts, Mukti Khaire, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
under what conditions should they settle so that they, as well as PZU, are satisfied? If not, what other potential alternatives might exist? Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912014-PDF-ENG Poles Apart on PZU...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
organization's skills and culture as the vehicle to produce improved performance. This is by necessity a longer-term strategy. Andrew Sigler, CEO of Champion International (now part of International Paper Company), pursued this approach...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
staff are well positioned to conceive improvement opportunities based on first-hand knowledge of what works and does not work. The innovation contest may be a relevant and useful vehicle to elicit staff ideas. However, the success of the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
a decision maker may make between two decision alternatives as a parameter of the problem varies. We show how this formulation also relates many widely used concepts in single and multiattribute utility theory. Paper:
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
financial and nonfinancial measures, some envisioned its role only in formulaic compensation contracts. We describe an alternative view, in which the scorecard's formal measures are created and used for informal management, with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
estate firms' decisions to provide investment property fair values prior to the required disclosure of this information under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We find evidence that investor demand for fair value...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
visually depict outcome and cost data simultaneously. It provides clinicians, managers, patients, regulators, and policy makers with a readily understandable snapshot of the value being delivered for a specific medical condition and allows them to compare that value...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
results. They advocate using alternative methods for estimating risk-adjusted returns and excluding some observations from our sample. Amihud and Stoyanov claim that making such changes renders our results not significant (though...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
crimes. We also examine the effectiveness of alternative forms of political representation: large-scale membership of women in local councils affects crime against them more than their presence in higher level leadership positions....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315074-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-041 The Galaxy Dividend Income Growth Fund's Option Investment Strategies This case is designed to provide an elementary introduction to options and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
positive note, however, healthcare companies were commonly thought to be recession proof and thus might be a sound investment in the event of a down-turning economy. Burnham had to decide if this was the right time for an exit, and if so,...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
crucially so—on whether or not the platforms subsidize one side of the market in equilibrium. For example, with prices being strategic complements across platforms, we show that a cost-reducing investment by one firm may have a positive...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
how those processes get institutionalized into a unique culture. Located in the Free State of Saxony in the eastern part of Germany (the former GDR), AMD's investment in the region leverages a historic and rather unique skill base in...
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Sean Silverthorne