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- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
Here are the 20 most popular stories from 2007. How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater? Summing up the many responses, Jim Heskett says that the mix of control, delegation, and theater employed by successful leaders depends on View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
product safety expert, and we have a shared interest in what keeps safer products from reaching the market and what keeps less safe products on store shelves. In 2002 she wrote: As the world's largest retailer and the nation's largest toy... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
executives during the initial stages of implementing the new strategy. Our analysis demonstrates that this firm's balanced scorecard contained useful and timely information for distinguishing between these alternatives. These results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
and Enel, the largest electric utilities in Germany and Italy, respectively. In March 2007, Acciona's executive chairman Jose Manuel Entrecanales is considering three strategic alternatives: tendering its shares-and realizing a capital gain of 1.2 billion, 13% of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
Harvard Business School Case 709-007 Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd faced a daunting task that he never imagined he would have to face when he was elected two years ago. Australia at that time was poised to enter its 17th year of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
and floor workers. (In gauging the factors that determine whether a firm adopts any given technology, the researchers considered geographic variables that might affect the cost of acquiring the technology—the firm's distance from the Walldorf, Germany, headquarters of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
guide. Clear articulation of values and principles helps employees choose among alternatives in a consistent manner. "One Cemex, we are only one Cemex," CEO Lorenzo Zambrano declared to me. The Mexican company is one of the world's top cement makers. At the... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
contribute to longer term complementary effects which work to overcome the losses from cannibalization. Our results are based on both interrupted time series analysis and a difference-in-differences analysis of six years of proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
maintain majority control of their company. As attractive as the plan seems, they worry about the high cost of the loan and the risk that the offering might fail. In January 2005, with no time left to consider alternative financing plans,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
One year after the implementation of the new system, TDABC analysis demonstrated cost savings of 19% and a 10-minute decrease in provider data-entry time. Any EHR system that allows the patient to input data is useful in that it can save patients and providers View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
claim." When the global stock market and interest rates began to decline in 2000, many corporations faced a double whammy when returns on pension assets were well below expectations and pension liabilities rose by much more than... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
IEEE Security & Privacy Accountable? The Problems and Solutions of Online Ad Optimization By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Online advertising might seem to be the most measurable form of marketing ever invented. Comprehensive records... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
cross-cultural management, which is that in the United States you can get a quick yes in agreeing to participate, but when you get into actual implementation, the yes may turn into a no," Paine says. "In Japan, it's likely that they'll take a long View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
so that it would act in the national interest. Exporting began to be seen as a route to development, and foreign firms offered both the technology and access to markets that might make exports possible. Many state-owned firms—some of... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
resulting endogenous scarcity of informed investors exacerbates primary market collapses in bad times. Inefficiency arises because informed investors are a public good from the perspective of originators. All originators benefit from the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct market competitors,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
U.K., have adopted a hybrid approach known as the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), also known as "public-private partnerships" (PPP). Under this approach, private firms build and operate the infrastructure while the host government bears many of the residual... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
dampens motivation. The research also suggests that it's important to pay attention to the timing of bonuses: a reward given at the end of a period is more motivating than one given at the beginning. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008
tolerance, can have substantial welfare costs. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13966 I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: A Study of Online Grocery Purchases and Order Lead Time... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
individual-level data from an Indian software services firm to examine the effects of team familiarity and variation in market experience on multiple measures of performance for over 1,100 software development projects. Consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace