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- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
still contrary to merchants' interests), foregoing the efficiencies of specialization in favor of the better incentives of a company's staff. We consider the implications for marketing of online affiliate programs and for online marketing...
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Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may help-but there's only one way to ensure sustained innovation: you need to lead it-and with a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
of America Acquires Merrill Lynch (A) Robert C. Pozen, Charles E. BeresfordHarvard Business School Case 310-092 On December 22, 2008, Bank of America (BofA) chairman and CEO Ken Lewis convened a special board of directors meeting to...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
instrumental assistance, such as loans of cash, to psychosocial assistance, such as friendship and caring. I observed that these helping relationships all shared a similar characteristic: all of these men had worked at Baxter. I began to think and write about this as a...
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by Mallory Stark
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
have to live and fulfill certain obligations to others, but they're also intense experience junkies. When members started to drift off to work on these piecework deals, they stopped having the kind of preparation experiences that they once had. Q: What was View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
lawsuits alleging that its products contained asbestos and had caused hundreds of thousands of people to contract asbestos-related diseases, such as mesothelioma and lung cancer. Nine years later, Grace is poised to emerge from bankruptcy with a plan of reorganization...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
control and agenda setting. In the special case of mutually incompatible control systems, when top managers must trade off relevance for appropriateness (or the other way round), their choice of interactive control will be driven by what...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
wreck would have been assembled. Now, Andy does have a special talent in getting people who don't like one another very much to work together. But that board was too far gone. The interpersonal conflict was just too great. I think he...
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- 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015
that save their firms cash taxes. Their firms altered payout policies in 2012, distributing $8 billion in special and accelerated dividends, to save shareholders nearly $700 million in taxes. Further, each tax-minded executive reduces a...
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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
board had to decide whether to invite the two directors to join the company’s board knowing they came with the special payment scheme from the hedge fund. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117029-PDF-ENG Harvard...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
operating business, like a specialized business field, so they went to companies like Procter or McKinsey, because that was where they could develop more business skills while they hung out and waited for their entrepreneurial...
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- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
512-010 The Mekanism case introduces students to a digital media production company specialized in creating viral marketing campaigns for advertising agencies and their clients (e.g., Microsoft, AXE, eBay, Toyota, etc.). Mekanism has...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
established players in the advertising industry. Next, the case examines the firm's internal dynamics. Here, in addition to describing the culture of Big Spaceship, the case puts special emphasis on the firm's recent shift from a...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
link individuals with crime scenes and fathers to their children. Special problems of trust have arisen, because the domain of scientific practice termed 'DNA typing' emerged in a commercial context, and its results serve as the basis for...
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Martha Lagace