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- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living....
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by Bill George
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
interactions between executives and investors are likely to increase, Yu says, so it's important for executives to keep in mind that they have a lot more to gain from communicating clearly—and also a lot more to lose when their message gets lost in translation....
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
name of the newspaper. Within seconds, he located three bios for Perez, information about her work with the UC Irvine alumni club, the citation for an "up-and-coming journalist" award she'd won, links to her personal pages on several social networking sites, and her...
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- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
In the online marketplace, oodles of retailers and developers rely on “platforms” such as Amazon.com, the Apple App Store, Facebook, and Twitter to get their products and services into the hands of users. Retailers, for example, sell...
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- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
systematic in achieving a sustainable competitive advantage by leveraging the talent in all levels of the organization. Follow him on Twitter @bgroysberg. Abhijit Naik is an independent researcher.
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- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
John A., and Leora Kornfeld Abstract—The new marketing order, as played out on media platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Instagram, is so unlike the order it is displacing that it might seem like bedlam, an asylum of sorts for ideas...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
viewers who tuned in—especially if it was known that Americans performed well in popular sports such as swimming and gymnastics. The network also harnessed social media to increase buzz about the Games and viewership, including encouraging athletes to post to View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
Deflategate, the pro football controversy that spawned a media frenzy, Twitter war, even a presidential joke, has a new claim to fame as a Harvard Business School case study. At the heart of Deflategate is the question of whether the New...
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- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
private equity partners and ownership for the Messer family. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/809056-PDF-ENG Twitter Mikołaj Jan Piskorski, David Chen, and Bill HeilHarvard Business School Case 710-455 View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. After all, 2007 was the year that Twitter was founded; Airbnb formed the following year. For startups jockeying for position in nascent markets, pressure is intense to...
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- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
board before the new CEO takes over. They also consider the viewpoint of the non-founding CEO via the case of Les Trachtman, CEO of Webpiont, as the founder tries to pressure Trachtman to leave the company by threatening to resign himself. And they study the case of...
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- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818061-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-079 Margin Accounts No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218079-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-032 Stock-Based Compensation at View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
photo; shared or liked a Coca-Cola-related deal; or wrote a product recommendation. Related Article An Interview With The Author Read The Interview Indeed, many firms began to compete with each other over who can have most Facebook fans or View Details
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
international media event ensues. How do viral videos spread and what can firms do about them? This case dissects an incident in which a disgruntled customer used YouTube and Twitter to spread a music video detailing United's mishandling...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
CEO, and Gianfranco Ferrari, the chair of his board and senior BCP executive, must decide whether to go forward and, if so, at what price. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315030-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 915-027 Resuscitating...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home
Instagram and look for the “Office Hours” story series. You can also follow HBS Working Knowledge on Twitter (@HBSWK) and Facebook. About the Author Kristen Senz is a writer and social media editor for Harvard Business School Working...
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by Kristen Senz
- 27 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Social Network Marketing: What Works?
leads to almost a 14 percent drop in revenue from the high-status group. Q: Despite the ability to gather millions of users, the business viability of social networking sites seems uncertain. Is there any good news in your findings for the Facebooks and View Details
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
limited. Friendster, the first website to resemble the social media outlets we have today, was still two years away from release in 2000. In contrast, Facebook currently has over 2 billion monthly users, more than a quarter of the estimated world population; View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
markets. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-015.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 513-091 Bluefin Labs: The Acquisition by Twitter What is the value of Bluefin...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
media networks produce. "I'm sure it's true that more people work with the data that Twitter generates than actually work for Twitter," Deighton says. "We use a tree metaphor [in the report]. If you look at a tree, you see...
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