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- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
compared to Kmart. (The other companies in their quad were Target and the Limited.) Both companies were in roughly the same financial shape in 1986, but Dollar General grew steadily, showing healthy profits year after year. Meanwhile, Kmart floundered, its market View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
U.S.-born parents, while the second includes mostly older, separated women with some college education, a relatively higher share of whom are foreign born and have foreign-born parents. Our results demonstrate the presence of additional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009
insiders strategically sell shares prior to the disclosure of goodwill impairment losses. We provide evidence that insiders of goodwill impairment firms engage in abnormal selling of their shares quarters... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18
closed, co-located organizations develop systems with larger Cores. Our findings establish some "stylized facts" about the fine-grained structure of large, real-world technical systems, serving as a point of departure for future... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
self-declared programs: You claim to have adopted it, and so you have. Even fairly famous codes are structured this way, including the CERES Principles and the United Nations Global Compact. A decade ago, self-declaring that your firm has... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
U.S. checks appear to have increased retail buying and share prices of retail-dominated portfolios. The Hong Kong payments increased overall market turnover and share prices in Hong Kong and mainland Chinese... View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 15
tied to their competitors via shared intermediary organizations. To test our theory, we examine every relationship between entrepreneurial firms and their venture capital investors in the minimally invasive surgical segment of the medical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
was not—doing. As company leaders rolled out this daring strategy, they also created an organizational structure and culture developed to support a multi-product, vertically integrated enterprise. By the mid 1930s, GM's market View Details
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
retirement, Amabile and colleagues found that, for many, the transition begins smoothly enough but then develops into retirees questioning their own identity and puzzling over how to structure their days as their familiar work life fades... View Details
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
follow a structured process. The product leads would constantly complain about his attitude and work quality. I carved out a prototyping role for him on the team so we could keep experimenting with new ideas and he could remain happy and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19
PapersNegotiation Processes As Sources of (and Solutions to) Interorganizational Conflict Authors:Elizabeth Long Lingo, Colin Fisher, and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract We investigate how structural features of negotiations can affect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
they operate. Political science, government, and history paid attention; and even the economist Joseph Schumpeter, with his notion of individuals who operate outside the social structure and who can then innovate, staked out a tradition... View Details
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
research on financial markets and regulation and who, in many cases, have held leadership positions in the financial sector, think about the bill and its intended (and unintended) consequences? Below, HBS faculty members Robert Steven Kaplan, David A. Moss, Robert C.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20
Publications August 2013 Marketing Science Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans By: Chung, Doug J., Thomas Steenburgh, and K. Sudhir Abstract—We estimate a dynamic View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
earned (vs.) that which is inherited Each member of society must contribute to society's wealth by building their own and sharing Once you die, the wealth gets transferred to society." Carlos Avendano made the point that wealth... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 22
close with an attempt to identify strategies to close the gap between the unethical people we are and the ethical people that we strive to be. Publisher's Link: http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415873246/ Working PapersLocal Industrial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
customers to come to them, they need to go to their customers. Past research demonstrates that firms who maintain or accelerate customer-centric philosophies consistently outperform firms that do not. In fact, they gain market share from... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
structures, we adopt a process perspective and find that integration was achieved despite an incentive structure that did not support it. By drawing a distinction between the incentive landscape and the planning process, we identify... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
corporate governance structure tailored to the firm. Q: What should CEOs be thinking about in terms of better leveraging their legal resources? Are new organizational structures needed to support this?... View Details
- 24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24
divisions. Our two studies allow us to demonstrate that spontaneous within-game dialogue and manipulated pre-game talk lead to the same results. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-039.pdf PublicationsCost Structure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace