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  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

Business School Case 618-021 Great Lakes Banking Group: Data Management In May 2016, Michael Rechtin, an expert in international data center law, advised global financial services firm Great Lakes Banking Group (GLBG) on its plans to upgrade its data centers. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 1991
  • Case

Burlington Northern: The ARES Decision (B)

By: Julie H. Hertenstein and Robert S. Kaplan
The ARES team formally proposes that Burlington Northern implement the ARES system. The project meets resistance. In light of financial restructuring and high level of debt, executives wonder whether the company can afford ARES. Weak links during the ARES development... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Restructuring; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Borrowing and Debt; Capital Budgeting; Projects; Technology Adoption; Service Industry
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  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

accounts for more than a quarter of the overall increase in labor supply to the private sector during 1986-2005. Using the reform to instrument for private-sector labor supply, we find that private-sector labor demand is very elastic. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 18, 2006

  Working PapersNone available this week   Cases & Course MaterialsThe Company Sale Process Author:William E. Fruhan Jr. Harvard Business School Note 206-108 Lays out the steps, timeline, and process by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

To improve any business, managers need to understand how much it costs to produce a profitable product. It seems a simple task, but the process of securing and analyzing the data can be incredibly complex and organizationally taxing. In... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 23 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 21 Jul 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 31 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 31

election years. These results describe how failures in electoral accountability can lead to suboptimal policy outcomes. Read the paper: http://www.cgdev.org/doc/events/MADS/Shawn_Cole.pdf Earnings and Ratings at Google Answers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2, 2020
  • Article

What Really Prevents Companies from Thriving in a Recession

By: Ranjay Gulati and Mark Wiedman
Even in the best of times, many companies fail to fund and staff new opportunities. As decades of research have shown, leaders fear threats to their status and power and so become attached to existing businesses and budgets, regarding them as entitlements and as a... View Details
Keywords: Recessions; Resource Allocation; Budgets and Budgeting
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  • 30 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers

Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz & Leora Klapper
  • 26 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

patents granted by the USPTO in 2001-2003. We show that examiner citations account for 63% of all citations on the average patent and that 40% of patents have all citations added by examiners. We use multivariate regression and analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

not about how well you answered questions in an interview. You need to put in place processes that give you more data about the person’s behavioral fit.” And once on staff, workers benefit from constructive feedback. So companies should... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

anti-trust immunity. Capitalism is not a natural system and it did not emerge or spread by an unguided process like biological evolution; it has only existed since the liberation of the markets for land, labor, and capital, i.e., the end... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.” “Make ‘speeches.’ Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.” “When possible, refer... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to dispatch inspectors, which in turn limits the number of inspections that can be performed. We argue that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2009 (Revised October 2010)
  • Case

Elkay Plumbing Products Division

By: Robert S. Kaplan
The vice president of sales learns that the most profitable 1% of the division's customers generate 100% of profits, and that two of the division's largest customers lose 50% of profits. The division has just finished a project to install a time-driven activity-based... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Profit; Management Systems; Consumer Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry
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  • 04 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life

lesson executives considering a brand acquisition might want to keep in mind. There are factors beyond economic analysis to take into account if the process of brand management is to cohere. What we call a... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton; Food & Beverage
  • January 2011
  • Case

The Risk-Reward Framework at Morgan Stanley Research

By: Suraj Srinivasan and David Lane
The case describes the Risk-Reward framework that Morgan Stanley analysts use as a systematic approach to communicate a broader range of fundamental insights about a company rather than the traditional single point estimates. The goal of the framework is to focus the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Forecasting and Prediction; Equity; Framework; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Business Processes; Research; Valuation
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  • 26 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

mountain, Everest has never been a cakewalk: 148 people have lost their lives attempting to reach the summit since 1922. Newspaper and magazine articles and books—most famously, Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

important predictor of product performance, product variety, process flexibility and industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software industry by use of a technique called Design Structure Matrices (DSMs), which allows us... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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