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- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives, and the firms they controlled as driving actors in national economies and international growth. Alongside an original... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
performance improvement. We highlight implications for institutional theory, managers, and policymakers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-001.pdf Issuer Quality and the Credit Cycle Authors:Robin Greenwood and Samuel... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
for companies to explain their rationale for the limitations they place on computer usage. Control access to your systems. You don't allow just anyone off the street to wander in and use your company's fax machines or sit in on a strategy... View Details
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
likely to leave?” Yet, at the same time, Polzer notes that people analytics could also be used in more worrisome ways, raising concerns about employers that monitor every keystroke in an attempt to control and micromanage employee... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 13 Jun 2014
- Op-Ed
World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention
50 percent share of the television sets turned on at any given night in that country. The Price Of Attention Attention is becoming a scarce resource. Due to consumer behaviors such as multitasking and shorter attention spans, the quality... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank-are no more likely, on average, to get a negative quality rating than other projects. When aid is given to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
opportunistic low-ball offers. Working Papers The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination By: Bormann, Sara, Jan Bouwens, and Christian Hofmann Abstract—This study examines how control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
industries. We exploit data from the U.S. Cluster Mapping Project to examine the effects of agglomeration within regional clusters after controlling for convergence at the region-industry level. Our findings suggest that industries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
the Coop, the focus on books is true to the store's original charter. Founded by a group of thrifty Harvard undergrads who felt Cambridge merchants were charging too much for books and firewood, the Coop has over the years provided the Harvard and MIT communities with... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
would put them on and start shouting expletives because the sound quality was so incredible. Our engineers and designers strive for that reaction. What’s one of your latest audio technologies? We just launched headphones with Supreme... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
full-time employees, the new factory will add another 50 people per shift, doing everything from laser-cutting steel frames to inspection, painting, general assembly, and quality testing. The company worked with contract assembly to build... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
curb cost increases while ensuring quality treatment. Those goals have not been reached, largely because patient and physician resistance to stringent gatekeeping has led to more relaxed controls and freedom... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
emerging Asian markets. Paper: http://www.asiabusinessinsights.com/articles.html#sub_articles_E-commerce_in_Asia Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson Publication:Review of Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
perceived agreeableness; the decrease in leadership effectiveness perception between moderate and high decision latitude was explained by a decrease in perceived conscientiousness. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed. Keeping the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
such as eBay, YouTube, and Facebook to gather information and share opinions on how they spend their money, an entirely new marketing philosophy is called for, one in which the marketer no longer controls the message. In "Digital... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care - including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger - believe that shifting control of health-care purchasing... View Details
- Profile
Angela R. Hicks Bowman
school-like grading system of A-F based on a variety of criteria including punctuality, professionalism, price, quality and overall performance. Though the ratings system has caused some controversy over the years, the continued growth of... View Details
- 19 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways
most advanced air pollution control mechanisms in the world could not stop that plant from pouring CO2 into the air at astonishing rates. Despite a few usages of the term “green coal” by our gracious hosts, that term is nothing more than... View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
ratings play an important role in the financial system, but investors and regulators who use ratings cannot easily verify their quality, and ratings are paid for by the firms whose bonds are rated. The provision of quality ratings is at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
effect helps us to achieve." Casandra Levine agreed, but introduced a cautionary note. The promise of what can be accomplished by predictive analytics in raising the quality of life and functionality for our society is astonishing,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett