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- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
the West Zone concession by Maynilad Water Services. Over the next decade, Manila Water turned in an impressive and profitable performance, while Maynilad failed. Describes the management actions of Manila Water and poses the question of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
recent years, a number of new and exciting tools enabled by advances in telework, machine learning, and other approaches had emerged. Hirshfeld hoped to maximize these tools’ utility in order to enhance patent examiners’ work and productivity. Helping examiners become... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
that seeks to improve society by identifying and supporting social entrepreneurs who launch organizations to attack some of the world's most difficult problems. After turning Echoing Green around and re-building an organization almost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
are managed without leadership development as an objective; as a result, when the time comes to name a new chief executive, those firms turn to outsiders. The Leader Within: The Best CEO Succession Plans Groom Independent-minded Insiders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
developed economies and then turns to developing countries, covering the following topics: farmers' adoption of AI, how AI affects their decision to invest in risky assets, and the extent to which AI helps farmers smooth income and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
and Beijing turned their focus to attracting these new entities, setting the stage for Sino-Soviet competition. Based on archival research from 10 countries, including new materials from Russia and China, many no longer accessible to... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
smart, connected products that could be controlled remotely. But who really wanted to check ten different apps to make sure the heat was down, the doors were locked, and the lights were turned off? The Internet of Things (IoT) redefined... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
utility serving Pakistan's largest city. In 2010, the firm has made great strides in turning around the company, but the transition is not complete. In fact, completing the task involves significant work in rebuilding the social contract,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
only the decision to invest but also the subsequent value of the investment. Research on project finance turns out to provide some of the best examples of how and why financing structures matter (or why structure affects firm value). When... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
this proposal that is appealing to those Trump voters. Desai: The other aspect you might have expected to see his fingerprints on is not in terms of the agenda but in terms of the process. Part of the Trump promise was negotiation and deal-making. That may View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
Brady, who turned 42 in August, wanted to continue playing into his mid-40s, but Belichick and the Patriots were reportedly only willing to offer Brady a one-year contract. A similar case occurred with Cam Newton with the Carolina... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
Great chefs, like great artists, go far beyond their materials (in this case, food) to provoke an experience that fulfills their creative vision. Unlike artists, however, they are running a business that requires putting diners in the seats, balancing costs, and... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4
Explores the results of Jody Leleck's efforts to turn around underperforming Broad Acres Middle School. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810043-PDF-ENG Lehman Brothers and Repo 105 Anette Mikes, Gwen Yu, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
venture, but the coalition was fundamentally unstable. Quadir was facing roadblocks no matter which way he turned in his quest to assemble the venture. He came to a point where the rational decision seemed to be to abandon the venture and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
period of economic turbulence. But if that turns out not to be enough, then they are going to be taken into the receivership process and liquidated or restructured. "One thing the critics don't fully acknowledge is the world we live in... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
behavior and cognition miss. The chapter seeks to establish a theoretical foundation for a turn towards historicism in entrepreneurial studies, which is already partly underway. The authors stress that the path will not be easy, but that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16
LaSalle (JLL) faced at the turn of the millennium. Until then, JLL sold piecemeal commercial real estate services to its corporate clients, who maintained relationships with a variety of vendors. In 2000, JLL's large corporate clients... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
trust. Lavish executive compensation not only drains the corporate treasury and dilutes the shareholders' earnings, but, perhaps even more importantly, it can lead the recipients to believe that they really are worth five hundred times more than the average worker.... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
decisions. Strategic partnerships with suppliers arise when companies wish to select suppliers that offer not low prices, but low costs. Low-price suppliers may turn out to be extremely high-cost if they deliver in large quantities that... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
practices or the contested meanings in the adoption of new practices (Leblibici, et al., 1991; Lounsbury and Pollack, 2001). While both research approaches have been quite productive and provocative, some scholars have raised concerns about this View Details