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- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
Marissa Mayer became the CEO of Yahoo!, a tech giant with a tumultuous past. When Mayer tries to reinvigorate the company, she hires Jacqueline Reses, who has a private equity background, to head both human resources and mergers and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708480 Cadbury Schweppes: Capturing Confectionery (A) Harvard Business School Case 708-453 In late 2002, global confectionery and beverage maker Cadbury Schweppes needed to decide whether or not to make an...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
Business School Case 910-032 Describes Google's history, business model, governance structure, corporate culture, and processes for managing innovation. Reviews Google's recent strategic initiatives and the threats it poses to Yahoo, Microsoft, and others. Asks what...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
principles remained important in FOMC deliberations until the mid-1960s. After this, the FOMC also spent less time discussing the composition of bank loans. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20507 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
exploration of platform battles of the future, including voice wars (Alexa vs. Hey Google vs. Siri), ridesharing and autonomous car platforms, quantum computing, and CRISPR. Publisher's link:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
competitors has profound implications for their business models and the logic with which they operate. An example that illustrates our result is that of Google and Microsoft. Both firms offer consumers online services to manage e-mail,...
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- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
acquisition activity in the healthcare sector invariably occurs with scant regard for the impact on public health or the end consumer. Pfizer’s attempted takeover of the British company, AstraZeneca, in 2014 was criticized widely for...
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- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
Search, a Google travel search service, we identify and measure the impact of diverting search away from non-paid algorithmic links to competing online travel agencies. Controlling for search intent, we find that Google's differential...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
“The more similar you are to someone, the more likely you are to work with them.” That homogeneity, however, came with a penalty: a clear lack in financial performance. Partners who came from the same school achieved an 11.5 percent lower success rate for View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
that while INRIX's industry-leading technology platform and customized services had set the firm apart, large location-based services companies could more easily enter the sector, posing a significant threat. In recent years, due to the proliferation of smartphones,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
startup in the face of fierce competition. From 2011 through 2016, the business evolved from a hobby to a startup with $22 million in revenue and 45 employees, all of whom worked remotely from home. Customer acquisition was becoming more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
or is it still too early?" Dick Costolo wondered as he reflected on the latest acquisition offer. He had been building FeedBurner with his three co-founders for almost four years and was staring at the details of an View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
Google reviews (Google’s current tying strategy) or reviews from multiple platforms determined to be the best-performing by Google’s own organic search algorithm. We find that users prefer the version that does not exclude competitor...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
development—supplying energy to impoverished rural areas in India, against environmental damage-caused by the use of coal-fired power plants. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609057 GSK's View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
their effects and achieve better outcomes in competitive contexts. Working Papers"DEFENSE ACQUISITION REFORM: An Elusive Goal-1960 to 2010 Authors:J. Ronald Fox, David Allen, Thomas Lassman, Walton Moody, and Philip Shiman An...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
and advertising/media company Septeni—use GROW in very different ways to manage talent recruiting, screening, hiring, placement, and development. The case asks students to consider two questions: (1) Which of the three companies' approaches to using people analytics...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
client. (SEPs perform an oversight role for the work being done by the GEP and his or her team and are typically very senior members of the firm.) The case also raises areas where Everson can improve. Purchase this...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
At first blush, the two-year-old online start-up Groupon seems a bit audacious. For starters, there's the news that the deal-of-the-day website turned down a $6 billion acquisition offer from Google last...
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- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
correlations between their risk-based return premia, and periodic flights to quality. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/Comovement_RAPS.pdf The Effect of Reference Point Prices on Mergers and Acquisitions...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
controversial) shift in its business model from "retail" projects involving individual volunteers to "wholesale" projects with for-profit partners from the San Francisco Bay Area. Its CEO has to decide whether and how to respond to a request from...
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Sean Silverthorne