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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
transactions—the metrics Karavites tracks most closely—are up at all his locations. Formulating a turnaround strategy required Kempczinski and his team—which included Kristy Cunningham—to get to the heart of what exactly had happened to...
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- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
large firms often encounter difficulties in formulating and committing changes due to the complexity in firms' activities. Beyond cognitive limitations, perhaps the most intriguing type of failure is when managers fully understand the...
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Martha Lagace
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Alumni Authored Books | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's CollapseSalter, Malcolm (Mal). Policy Formulation and Administration: A Casebook of Senior Management Problems in BusinessSalter, Malcolm (Mal). Stages of...
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- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
problem lies not with the people who serve on boards, but rather the structure of boards themselves, argue Harvard Business School professor Jay Lorsch and consultant Colin B. Carter. In Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
honest, humble, and setting realistic expectations may be good ingredients. Gadiesh: The public has lost confidence, and the underlying problem does not seem to be the absence of checks and balances, but that not everybody is making them...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
that focus on the perceived cause of the most recent crash. These efforts have ignored the enduring cultural problems of CEO-board collusive relationships and the lack of shareholder power. The result is the imposition of ineffective,...
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- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
depression, led to a crisis in the industry. Nonetheless, the pioneering group of forecasters shaped the core problems, and invented many of the techniques, that influenced the maturation of the industry in the decades that followed. Warren Persons, the Harvard...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
boards (PCBs) in-house rather than buying them from third-party contract manufacturers. Stryker Corporation's Instruments business is considering the proposal in response to difficulties with existing suppliers. The case requires students to View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
why the brain evolved to pay attention to other people.” The problem was that while the film's characters appeared astonishingly human in many ways, their eyes looked lifeless. Viewers were creeped out. Humans are often delighted by...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
team to what is actually going on. Effective customer selection requires segmenting a market based on the benefits that customers receive and perceive in the product or service. It focuses on buyers: understanding their problems and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
associated with risky lending in the corporate loan market by examining the performance of individual loans held by CLOs. We employ two different datasets that identify loan holdings for a large set of CLOs and find that adverse selection View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
impact on performance. To explain this surprising finding, we use mixed methods to examine the impact of the work area's problem-solving approach. Results suggest that prioritizing easy-to-solve problems was associated with improved...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Harvard Business School Case 606-090 Brandon Fogg must solve two seemingly unrelated problems in his management of creative R&D professionals. First, despite having hired brilliant research professionals, his firm is having View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
show that the combination of preference for variety and consumption complementarities gives rise to (i) a commons problem (to better satisfy their individual preference for variety, users have an incentive to consume more applications...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
future? George C. Lodge: Bureaucratic inertia is strong. Big organizations do not like change. There is considerable mutual suspicion among MNCs, NGOs, and multilateral organizations. They are all busy doing what they are doing. There are ideological View Details
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
to pose a problem for the economy. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52111 Seeking to Belong: How the Words of Internal and External Beneficiaries Influence Performance By: Green, Paul, Francesca Gino,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
found over decades of collaboration that clever piecemeal solutions to international security problems were always inadequate on a global basis because they omitted existing linkages. Also, American policymaking tends to be based on...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
community," he says. "If organizations want to maximize the diversity they import from the community, it behooves them to think of themselves as community citizens. Like anybody else in the community, the firm can be part of the problem...
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Garry Emmons
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
entities. The strategy of a new evaluation system should adjust the structure of the original evaluation system with the idea of reform and require the development of the rule of law, including formulating relevant laws and the legal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
Business Plan Contest, however, these highlights represent a fraction of the months of preparatory groundwork that go into formulating the plan itself. The official timeline for the contest begins in the fall, with organizational meetings...
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