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- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
Statistics Trade Credit and Taxes By: Desai, Mihir, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Abstract—This paper analyzes the extent to which firms use trade credit to reallocate capital in response to tax incentives. Tax-induced differences in pretax returns View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
This case study explores organizational design and incentive choices related to building a middle management layer as a company scales up its operations. Go Mobile, an Indian mobile phone retailer, uses high-powered incentives to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
experiences of several companies, the authors illustrate the dangers of conforming to market pressures for unrealistic growth targets. They argue that an overvalued stock, by encouraging overpriced acquisitions and other risky,...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
Herzlinger observes. "So there are no bathrooms, nor meals served, in the rooms. You have to walk to satisfy your basic needs. Your recovery—indeed, the entire Shouldice experience—is advanced by such fundamental inducements, as well as by attractive ones, such as...
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by Garry Emmons
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
early-twentieth-century social scientists is what we call "the meaning and organization problem." One of the main trends of modern society was the rise of large formal work organizations. Capitalists and managers encouraged the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
What I found out from that experience in Boston was that my sectionmates still liked me for who I was. A couple of them gave me some pretty good advice and it wasn't so much what I had, but who I was, that counted. I would encourage you...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
working years in book publishing, which is both highly regulated and furiously competitive. We need pro-business champions of the public interest like Teddy Roosevelt of my father’s time or Thurman Arnold of my youth. John M. Pickering (MBA 5/’43) Albuquerque, NM...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
rooms. You have to walk to satisfy your basic needs. Your recovery — indeed, the entire Shouldice experience — is advanced by such fundamental inducements, as well as by attractive ones, such as the beautifully landscaped grounds that View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
disappointedly low. Their ability, and motivation, to locate value-added activities in the most attractive locations means that they strengthen clustering rather than encourage dispersion of knowledge. Publisher's link:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
Murat Ülker, the chairman of Yildiz, decides to change the management structure and encourage rethinking brand positioning, channels, and communications in the U.S. market. How was the Godiva brand affected by the execution problems of...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
are steps that major players working together in metropolitan areas can do to save their cities: When it comes to the elements of soft infrastructure such as education and healthcare, it's essential to create an environment for capital, investment, and entrepreneurship...
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- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
the unconscious thought condition compared to both conscious thought and mere distraction. As there were no differences in sequence memory for the film, it remains unclear what mechanism was responsible for this effect. These results View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
one of the industry's leading firms. Oil sands deposits in Alberta represent a potentially vast reserve of hydrocarbons, but the extraction, refining, and transportation challenges are formidable, and the environmental consequences of large-scare oil sands development...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
book is obsolete in an era where the greatest value a partner provides is in the ideas they possess and not the wage rate they pay. Partners must be encouraged to share ideas, which can only be accomplished if they share in the spoils...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
is earlier literature that focused on whether the existence of tax-deferred savings accounts actually increases saving. Part of the government's rationale for allowing tax-deferred savings accounts is to encourage saving. Thus, the...
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by Ann Cullen
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
about, encourage manners and taught you to do avoid contradicting others in public. Kim: Yes. Dan: How hard was it for you personally to overcome that tradition and embrace this idea of radical candor? Kim: I like to joke that in many...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
nearly all markets for commodities, the result was a significant spike in the prices of food, fuel, and raw materials. Rising commodity prices, in turn, have intensified inflationary pressures for China, necessitating the imposition of price controls and export...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
educational, but it is one that caters to the different strengths of its players and encourages creative development. “For each of our games, we focus on three crucial ‘moments,’” explains Furlong. The situational moment involves when and...
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- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
post-secondary education to support and expand areas like career and technical training, and encouraging expansion of research and development in the US. There are a lot of areas of common ground. And there are a lot of opportunities to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
the disinterested shares. This article also identifies ways that the Delaware courts can encourage the use of these more potent devices when appropriate: through the threat of entire fairness review, the application of Revlon duties, and...
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Sean Silverthorne