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- 11 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements
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by William Schmidt & Ryan W. Buell
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
China's economy in context; and finally (3) "China and the Global Economy" shows how China's engagement with the global economy has changed overtime. These materials should be of interest to observers and participants of Chinese...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
the company had lost its "human touch" in the process of professionalizing and modernizing to capitalize on the fantastic market opportunities that had opened up in Spain. Some felt that the work was now too structured and...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2542242 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 215-037 Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance and is under pressure to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2023
- What Do You Think?
Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure?
us to be garbage. There was no relationship. While that in itself might have been a useful finding, it disappointed us. What to do? Throw out more than a year of work and a great deal of data? We were experiencing what felt like failure. “If we were to analyze the...
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by James Heskett
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
companies). Most CEOs rose in their company but a few came from outside. If they came from outside it was generally because the firm was in trouble and needed a turnaround. For example, Allan Leighton took over as chairman of the Royal Mail and View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
jobs and dignified salaries. As of March 2010, La Fageda has opened up a new production facility to make ice cream in an urban area outside of its well-known agricultural farm. Students are faced with understanding La Fageda's business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
and to calculate metrics to compare their levels of modularity. Our research takes advantage of a natural experiment in this industry, where products exist that fulfill the same function, but that have been developed using very different organizational...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
Linden, with a reputation for being open and knowledgeable yet sometimes intimidating, tries to convince the committee to come around to his way of thinking. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/913509-PDF-ENG PunchTab, Inc. Investor...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
crossed with small financial incentives (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open bank savings accounts. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
these are-- it is a school where people come to learn how to be very successful in the material world. Brooks: Yeah. Goldberg: Right? What are you teaching then about happiness if you're telling us in the book that wanting less is one of...
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by HBS Staff
- 14 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 14, 2015
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49339 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-016 The Sino-Russian Rapprochement: Energy Relations in a New Era The United States could enhance or threaten China's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2023
- HBS Case
(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?
virtual-reality future yet to materialize as hoped by its biggest proponents. Chief among its backers: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who two years ago went so far as to change his social media company’s name to Meta and vowed to spend...
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- 07 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back
Internet boom, companies armed with nothing more than a PowerPoint presentation of a lousy idea could secure tens of millions of dollars—which sometimes gave them enough time to figure out a viable business plan through trial and error. Eventually successful companies...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
Western technology extensively to face globalization and succeed. Very much Western-centric in approach yet Asian in practice, the Fungs of Li & Fung have mastered techniques of getting maximum efficiency out of the supply chain, taking raw View Details
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
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tension between the two sets of activities. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2294928 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 714-412 Coursera By providing free and open-access online courses at a large...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
valuations of the company. Since the restructuring plan proposed to give creditors a substantial amount of new common stock, their relative financial recoveries depended materially on what the firm, and this stock, was ultimately worth....
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by Stuart C. Gilson
- 04 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.
terms, but issues are rarely so clear-cut, Takeuchi says. “This intellectual tradition,” Takeuchi and Nonaka write, “is reflected in the debates over dualism—such as mind versus body, subject versus object, rationality versus empiricism, View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
and empirical implications that focus on the interface between technological shifts and identity change at multiple levels. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-048.pdf Cases & Course View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
content creation. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2013/06/how-to-profit-from-lean-advertising/ar/1 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 612-057 Inventory-Based Lending Industry Note Inventory-based lending is a...
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Carmen Nobel