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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
had a corporate membership — he learned that blacks were barred from joining. "I have always been proud of maintaining my ethnic identity while also being a part of the broader community," he says. As a boy, he attended civil rights...
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- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS professor and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
case focuses on the lead-up to Disney's 2012 annual meeting where Disney would face a vote on the compensation package of its CEO, Robert Iger. Leading proxy advisory firms were recommending that shareholders reject the proposed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
and soft—when formulating your algorithms. You also must consider the long-term implications of the data the algorithms incorporate to make sure they're not focusing nearsightedly on short-term outcomes. And choose the right data inputs,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
property rights in developing countries on the level and composition of industrial development. We develop a North-South product cycle model in which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
examines media and content choices by each candidate and allows students to explore the role of new media in political campaigns. The focus is on fundraising in 2007 and campaigning for Primary delegate votes in 2008. Purchase the case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
asking, is this the right business model? But there are no answers. The market and technology are constantly changing," Riesenfeld remarks. Important Sounding Board The biotech industry presents similar challenges in a space littered with...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
deals with Bed Bath & Beyond, Frontier Airlines, and Johnson & Johnson. “You’re always asking, is this the right business model? But there are no answers. The market and technology are constantly changing,” Riesenfeld remarks. The biotech...
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- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
growth requires. This article explores six common mistakes that executives make in this arena: 1) Failing to provide the right kind of oversight. The CEO should spend meaningful time with the team and with potential customers; 2) Not...
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Anna Secino
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
2003 and 2004—the first case where the SEC has allowed an accounting matter to be subject to an advisory vote at an annual meeting. We find evidence suggesting that ESO expensing shareholder proposals affected accounting and compensation...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
3,600 when we arrived to up to north of 14,000 right now, and our sponsorship base is up about five times since we got here four short years ago. So you're talking about like a exponential increase in revenue and success. And that can...
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- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
advertising, and outside advertising—vary in their effectiveness for voters with different political predispositions. We compile a comprehensive dataset that includes voting outcomes, detailed campaign activities, and voters’ party...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
methods of instruction. These meetings led to a broad commitment to case-method teaching and, in 1921, a formal faculty vote that officially changed the name of the school's approach from the "problem method" to the "case...
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by David A. Garvin
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Sherwood says by phone from her office in Grand Haven, Michigan, where she serves as vice chairman of JSJ Corporation, a family-owned entity comprising six manufacturing companies. "I had come right out of college, and many of the men had...
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Hanna, Julia
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
formats, digital rights management systems, wireless network infrastructure, and handset capacity), and the key dynamics—music delivery method, pricing, mobile-PC integration—that characterize mobile music business models. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
been ever upward. There was some hope that the concept of "say-on-pay," where shareholders vote on the CEO's compensation, might have some impact by making compensation committees more cautious, but we clearly still have a long...
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by Jim Aisner
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
weight of the centuries of injustices as we undertake this critically important work,” Pagliuca told WBZ Channel 4, the Boston-area CBS affiliate. “The Boston Celtics have a proud legacy of being on the right side of racial and social...
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- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
in China. So far he had been able to attract a large number of Chinese-born but U.S.-trained scientists to play a critical role in establishing the site. How sustainable was this strategy, and what were the key things he had to do right...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
of African Americans enslaved by the Cherokee, as well as those born into unions of the two groups. The Freedmen had struggled for decades to establish their rights as Cherokee citizens, and briefly gained those View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
leaders focus on the few things that produce results and experiences for the right customers; (3) the best service operating strategies don't require tradeoffs, so leaders foster "both/and" thinking in designing winning...
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Carmen Nobel