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- 08 Sep 2022
- Book
Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?
for Boomers to step aside, and for the new generation to step up,” says George, now an executive fellow at Harvard Business School. “They are the leaders we need.” Many Baby Boomers in the US are rejecting...
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by Lane Lambert
- Web
Frameworks & Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the business environment shows how the multiple dimensions of microeconomic competitiveness in a location are interrelated. Clusters Clusters are groups of interconnected firms, suppliers, related...
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Intellectual Capital - HBS Faculty Research | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
research with HBS faculty papers. 94 34991 Add My Librarian Item Ranging in date from the inception of the School in 1908 to the present day, the collections of research and teaching papers of Harvard View Details
- 2001
- Chapter
Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry
By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn
U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While...
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Public Sector;
Science-Based Business;
Research and Development;
Sovereign Finance;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Henderson, Rebecca, and Ian Cockburn. "Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 1, edited by Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, 1–34. MIT Press, 2001.
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
the duration and size of price changes using scraped data collected from 181 retailers in 31 countries. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52241 March–April 2018 Harvard View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen
rather than maintaining genuine interest. Unexpected result amplified in pandemic workplaces While extroverted managers and employees may feel discouraged by the results, the research points to practical methods for improving View Details
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by Pamela Reynolds
- April 1999 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
Al Dunlap at Sunbeam
By: Brian J. Hall, Rakesh Khurana and Carleen Madigan
Al Dunlap was one of the best-known corporate turnaround artists of the 1990s. In 1996, he was hired at Sunbeam to effect a restructuring, but was fired almost two years later when the company's financial performance and stock price began to decline. Many of the...
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Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Restructuring;
Stock Shares;
Performance Evaluation;
Leadership Style;
Resignation and Termination;
Motivation and Incentives;
Executive Compensation;
Outcome or Result;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States
Hall, Brian J., Rakesh Khurana, and Carleen Madigan. "Al Dunlap at Sunbeam." Harvard Business School Case 899-218, April 1999. (Revised December 2003.)
- 20 Jan 2022
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic
struggled with whether to lay off or furlough employees. Business leaders have had to make tough calls amid rapidly changing conditions with official guidance that keeps changing, and their decisions have...
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by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 2009
- Working Paper
Gray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing
By: Romana L. Autrey and Francesco Bova
Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels, for instance when goods designated for a foreign market are resold domestically. One method multinationals use to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices...
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Price;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Demand and Consumers;
Distribution Channels;
Business and Government Relations;
Sales;
Competitive Strategy
Autrey, Romana L., and Francesco Bova. "Gray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-098, February 2009. (Revised October 2009.)
- January 2009 (Revised November 2010)
- Case
The Dojima Rice Market and the Origins of Futures Trading
By: David A. Moss and Eugene Kintgen
In 1730, Japanese merchants petitioned shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune to officially authorize trade in rice futures at the Dojima Exchange, the world's first organized (but unsanctioned) futures market. For many years, the Japanese government had prohibited the trade of...
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Futures and Commodity Futures;
Price;
Food;
Business History;
Market Transactions;
Business and Government Relations;
Japan
Moss, David A., and Eugene Kintgen. "The Dojima Rice Market and the Origins of Futures Trading." Harvard Business School Case 709-044, January 2009. (Revised November 2010.)
- March 2009
- Background Note
Evaluating M&A Deals: Floors, Caps, and Collars
As equity consideration has become more popular in acquisitions, so has the use of the "pricing-protection" mechanisms, such as floors, caps, and collars. These contractual devices provide insurance to the shareholders of the target and may protect the buyer as well....
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Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Evaluating M&A Deals: Floors, Caps, and Collars." Harvard Business School Background Note 209-138, March 2009.
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Resources and Relationships in Entrepreneurship: An Exchange Theory of the Development and Effects of the Entrepreneur-Investor Relationship
By: Laura Huang and Andrew P. Knight
We develop a theoretical model, grounded in exchange theory, about the process through which relationships between entrepreneurs and investors develop and influence the growth of new ventures. Our theory highlights the multifaceted relationships that entrepreneurs and...
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Entrepreneurship;
Relationships;
Business Startups;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Theory
Huang, Laura, and Andrew P. Knight. "Resources and Relationships in Entrepreneurship: An Exchange Theory of the Development and Effects of the Entrepreneur-Investor Relationship." Academy of Management Review 42, no. 1 (January 2017): 80–102.
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
discussions that we’ve had” The case study, written by HBS’s Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration and head of the Technology and Operations...
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- January 2006 (Revised July 2007)
- Case
Juan Trippe and Pan American World Airways
By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Mark Rennella
A fascination with flight and a forceful personality helped to create a market for air travel and shape the modern airline industry. Masterfully wielding his power and influence, Juan Trippe built Pan American Airways by combining bold moves and blind ambition. Across...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Leadership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Industry Growth;
Business and Government Relations;
Power and Influence;
Air Transportation;
Air Transportation Industry;
Travel Industry
Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Mark Rennella. "Juan Trippe and Pan American World Airways." Harvard Business School Case 406-086, January 2006. (Revised July 2007.)
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
capacity of different hospitals can be readily compared. As measurement and investment experts, FASB’s governors are capable of and motivated to fashion a standard that clearly addresses this issue. Their...
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- February 2022 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
Jaypee Infratech and the Indian Bankruptcy Code
By: Kristin Mugford, William Vrattos and Radhika Kak
In 2016, India passed a new bankruptcy law (IBC) to counter a brewing bank crisis and increased corporate distress. Homebuilder Jaypee Infratech, one of India largest distressed companies (the “dirty dozen”) began restructuring under the IBC in 2017. Two years later,...
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Restructuring;
Decisions;
Judgments;
Voting;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Financial Crisis;
Public Sector;
Asset Pricing;
Borrowing and Debt;
Corporate Finance;
Credit;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Debt Securities;
Bonds;
Investment Return;
Price;
Government Legislation;
Laws and Statutes;
Bids and Bidding;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Valuation;
Real Estate Industry;
India;
Delhi
Mugford, Kristin, William Vrattos, and Radhika Kak. "Jaypee Infratech and the Indian Bankruptcy Code." Harvard Business School Case 222-071, February 2022. (Revised May 2022.)
- January 2020 (Revised July 2020)
- Supplement
MoviePass: The 'Get Big Fast' Strategy
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
In August 2017, MoviePass dramatically lowered its subscription price from $50 per month to just $10 for up to one movie per day. The idea was to rapidly scale the business to the point where they could generate incremental revenue streams form related businesses...
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Keywords:
Market Entry;
Growth Strategy;
Profit Vs. Growth;
Subscription Business;
Cash Burn;
Data Analytics;
Get-big-fast;
Buyer Power;
Strategy Implementation;
Movie Industry;
Racing;
Business Strategy;
Value Creation;
Consolidation;
Cash Flow;
Growth Management;
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Disruptive Innovation;
Mobile Technology;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
United States
- 11 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits
transforming how work is done and how people are paid for it. This heightened tension between moral and material goals may be nowhere as intense as it is in journalism, a field with strong ethical...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 15 Mar 2019
- News
A Model of Drive and Impact
Pablo Fernandez Alvarez (GMP 17, 2014) is cofounder of Clicars, an e-commerce platform in Spain that allows users to buy and finance refurbished cars hassle-free. In this interview, Fernandez explains the View Details