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- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
concerning the degree to which scientific activity can be evaluated via numerical metrics, the extent to which R&D can be structured as a process, and the degree to which decision-making should be centralized in commercial R&D...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
30,000 Indian businesses and created nearly 1,000 jobs. “It’s really structured in the exact same way as a small venture capital or private equity firm,” says Chorengel. “It’s a proven model—you get a group of talented fund managers...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
the masterpieces of Bellows and Homer, Lewis and Sloan. Structured mainly as a memoir, the book presents the Williams collection as an adventure, a unique look into this populist corner of the duplicated image, its reflection of and...
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- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
through turbulence. In particular, she and her family emphasized maintaining strong capital equity structures to deal with currency volatility, seeking reliable local partners, and never forgetting long-term opportunities. "For managers...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
an opportunity to change fundamentally their cost structures at the same time.Kerr: Ok, so tell us a little bit next about the design of the survey. Who were you trying to reach? How did you conduct the polling? And also what were you...
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- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
human capital, which measures the economic value of an employee's skill set and intellect. And now there's a new member of the capital lexicon: altruistic capital. "Altruistic capital is the idea that every individual has within them an...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17
that estimate the amount of money "left on the table" by stronger founders who agree to an equal split. We estimate that the value at stake is approximately 10% of the firm equity, 25% of the average founder stake, or $450K in...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016
granite and located along Kresge Way, features a quote from US president John Adams (Harvard University AB 1755, AM 1758) and Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map, the only flat map of the entire surface of Earth. Doctoral Student Research...
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- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
in the world, Akula must decide at what value to sell equity in SKS and to whom to sell it. The case focuses on valuation, which is difficult because at the time there are no publicly traded comparable companies, as well as the strategic...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
significant time on-site can maximize the value of the information conferred. But, as Short says, “no matter how good the information is, it doesn’t help if factories don’t want to learn.” Factories may have different motivations for...
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by Michael Blanding
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
returned to the United States, not when those profits are earned. This resembles the treatment of capital gains for individuals where capital gains taxes are only due when gains are realized rather than when they're accrued. As with individual capital gains, there is...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007
structures in the European Union and Japan. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707471 McDonald's Corp.: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain Harvard Business School Case 907-414 McDonald's...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15
an entrant needs to strategically choose whether to reveal its innovation by competing through the new business model or conceal it by adopting a traditional business model. We also show that the value of business model innovation may be...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
started Spelman as a physics and philosophy major. This quantitative part of me really wanted to answer these questions empirically. And we climbed to the first hut, and it took about five hours. And during that time, not only did he convince me that I should do a PhD...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
research on the effectiveness of state systems, policy options, and the structural challenge of underemployment among graduates. Bill Kerr: As job openings consistently outnumber the unemployed, attention is focused on how the labor...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
in-person work. It’s the summer of 2023, three and a half years into the post-Covid shift to remote and hybrid work, and there’s a growing consensus about the value of in-person collaboration. But many employees are loath to abandon...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Rescue & Recovery
that I won’t be able to lead if we’re not transparent.” “As leaders in purpose-driven organizations, we have to remember that it’s not always driven by a hard business decision or legal decision; we have to look at our values and find the...
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- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
will give way to $200 to $300 million drugs. That will be a very different world for big drug companies, with different cost structures and resource-allocation processes." And the drug industry won't be the only field affected,...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
business skills, HBS solidified Naidoo’s sense that systemic and structural issues were the root cause of many of the problems she had witnessed in South Africa, and that partnering with business could bring about real change....
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- 16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed
dropping as fuel costs were rising, pulling down SUV sales. Korean automakers were taking more and more market share, buoyed by government investment. Structural costs—US labor high among them—remained a drag on domestic production. “It’s...
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