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- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
an entrepreneur. We don't urge our students to "just do it." We spend a lot of time telling them to get to know an industry, get to be known in an industry, develop your skills, develop your contact base. There's an appropriate...
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by Staff
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
strategy be different from that of South Africa? What is the appropriate structure? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809066 'Lather, Rinse, Repeat': FeedBurner's Serial Founding Team...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
drop is caused by a liquidity event, the situation may represent a profitable investment opportunity. Investors must assess the likely cause of the recent price drops in the leveraged loan market and determine an appropriate investment...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
investors, customers, and employees. The approach aims to help managers identify relevant harms, analyze their responsibility for harms, and determine an appropriate response. The approach also considers limits on how far managers ought...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
between the Institutional Shareholder Services and management regarding the appropriateness of the CEO's compensation plan. Was ISS right that Qualcomm CEO's pay was inflated and justified by benchmarking to aspirational peers? Or was...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
performance. To perform the modified Dupont Decomposition, students learn how to reformat and condense the balance sheet and income statement to separately measure profitability arising from operating activities and financing activities. Students also see how excess...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
appropriate staffing, and store layout. Everyone in retailing knows this, but basics are boring, and it's easy to lose sight of them. The U.S. automotive industry offers a cautionary tale of the perils of not tending to the basics. The...
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- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
central bank to abandon its zero interest rate policy, which had been in place for years, and raise rates to 0.5%. The Bank of Japan was eager to increase them to more "normal" levels to exert effective monetary policy. Yet the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
investment advice for long-term investors. I have already argued that the recommendation that conservative investors should simply hold more cash might not be appropriate for long-term conservative investors, because reinvestment risk...
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by Ann Cullen
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Dynamics By: Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo Abstract—Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for productivity? How does the observability of these features affect how appropriately they are priced...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
consolidated into a single constraint. This helps to avoid a distortionary situation where different constraints bind for different banks performing the same activity. Second, while a regulatory framework that relies primarily on minimum capital ratios is View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
working with high-end apparel retailers such as Bonobos, Gilt Groupe, and Zara. What distinguishes the company from its rivals is its use of Kiva robots, which collect customer items within the warehouse and bring them to the appropriate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
grounded in a definition of creativity as the production of ideas or outcomes that are both novel and appropriate to some goal. In this theory, four components are necessary for any creative response: three components within the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
situation, and saying, "For me to do what I need to do for my team, I'm going to need X, Y and Z resources." Or, go back to preparation. You can find benchmarks. Figure out, from whatever information is available, what the View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
instinct for choosing the right tools—Continental Airlines' Gordon Bethune, General Electric's Jack Welch, and IBM's Lou Gerstner are all examples. Others can use this framework to help select the most appropriate tools for their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
the appropriate resource allocation among various product and platform offerings, and the most beneficial business model for each of a few candidate multi-sided platform initiatives. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
controller groups have been observed to appeal to top management's logic of functionalism, this paper argues that, in certain circumstances, controller groups may successfully draw on the logic of appropriateness as they supply new...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
(category demand expansion or market share stealing). To help brand managers make informed marketing mix decisions, it is essential that marketing mix models appropriately measure the different effects of marketing instruments. Discrete...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
Commission, chaired by Brooksley Born, issued a "Concept Release" inviting public comment on the relevance and appropriateness of existing regulation of the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market, a market with a notional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
in their venture would be most appropriate for NatuRi's future growth. In addition, the founders had only a short period of time to decide whether or not to accept a Seed and Series A term sheet from a well known venture capital firm....
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Martha Lagace