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- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
resource allocation within the group. In this way, the results are consistent with models where firm interlocks facilitate coordination across firms and are also consistent with models where relationships affect capital allocation....
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15
is asked to investigate the matter and to decide what, if anything, to do about it. The case raises issues in aligning strategy and sales systems, performance evaluation criteria, and on-going performance management processes in field...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
that explores the mechanisms’ distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms—within-firm productivity improvement shifts the productivity distribution rightward, while selection and market reallocation shifts the revenue and employment distributions...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508052 Ithmar Capital Harvard Business School Case 809-032 The founders of Ithmar Capital, a mid-market private equity fund targeting businesses in and addressing the Gulf Co-operation Council countries,...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
Israeli start-ups raised record-breaking amounts of venture capital, and exits for the year totaled over $8 billion. On the other hand, government expenditure on R&D had decreased and Israel’s position in the Global Innovation Index...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
a higher price without raising its multiple. If the private equity firm wins the bidding contest, the profit model subsequently becomes a blueprint for managing the turnaround company and aligning company management to the required...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
income rather than to maximize the capital value of the savings. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/07/the-crisis-in-retirement-planning/ar/1 July-August 2014 Harvard Business Review Sustainability in the Boardroom: Lessons from Nike's...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks, and Build an Incredible Career Keeping a Diary to Catalyze Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa, Steven Kramer, and Ela Ben-Ur Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://99u.com/book/maximize-your-potential...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
organizations as being focused on tangible hard metrics like profit or market capitalization. But for-profits also do a lot of organizational capacity-building work. Venture capital investments are very much about building the...
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by Julia Hanna
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
economic trends a central economic activity and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
Josh Lerner and Yiwen JinHarvard Business School Case 811-032 The private equity group Hony Capital considers what to do with their investment in Zoomlion, which has been successful to date. The question is whether to take their money off...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
ones. For example, the two Mars missions launched in 1998 were given a budget of only half that of Mars Pathfinder, well before anyone knew how Pathfinder would fare. As one NASA executive remarked, "It was like being in the Olympic high jump...we were going to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
investors and entrepreneurs need, optimize both technological sophistication and financial sophistication-approaches designed to attract capital by offering different levels of risk and return, different cash-flow priorities, and...
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Anna Secino