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- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem
of data from this survey highlights the need for business leaders, policymakers, and academics to collaborate on practical ways to make progress,” something well within the nation’s reach, he added. In fact, the View Details
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
Southeastern Pennsylvania University Hospital. He must balance his time taking care of patients, running a practice, managing up, down, and laterally, managing stars with little formal authority, allocating...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
company located in eight countries. “With close to 800 interviews conducted in a variety of languages, more than 3,500 survey results, and thousands of pages of archival material, a project of this scope...
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- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
simply begin with the direction you want to go and take a small step. Thinking alone will never change your life-you must ACT. Then evaluate the lessons you learn from that first step, build on them, View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
responsibility for securing these materials. Working PapersPayout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment Authors:Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob Abstract When...
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Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
study of a sponsorship collaboration between a global financial institution (UBS) and a multi-site museum (Guggenheim) evaluates critical aspects of resource integration...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
and Models, edited by G. Caprio, 47-58. U.K.: Academic Press, 2012 Abstract Despite its developmental justification, aid is deeply political. This paper examines the political economy of aid allocation first...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
countries. The book draws on literatures and archives that have previously only been available in Spanish, while the concluding chapter makes use of Harvard Business School's new project known as “Creating...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
different regions and urban and rural areas. The case lets students explore how these trends might impact JWT's advertising and marketing strategies in the future View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
new way of looking at the traditional organizational structure of cost and profit centers. Every unit, by contributing to effective strategy execution, has the opportunity to support and create profit. This...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
dataset of firms from the U.S. and seven European countries we study the impact of ICT on worker autonomy, plant manager autonomy, and span of control. Consistent with the theory, we find that better...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Ghemawat The organizational challenges involved in World War II were a vital stimulus to strategic thinking. The problem of allocating scarce resources across the entire economy in wartime led to many...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
contingent ways that a corporate risk function can foster highly interactive and intrusive dialogues to surface and prioritize risks, help to allocate View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
five arguments: the triple agency conflict argument in agency theory; the owner risk argument in transaction costs economics; the advantage and disadvantage of ownership argument in the resource-based view (RBV); the power escape argument...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
costs and profit margins; initial sales also influence the venture's trajectory of organizational skills because firms develop capabilities and routines in interactions with customers. There is also an...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
government at times. Blair balanced multiple roles and expectations. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411021-PDF-ENG BBVA Compass: Marketing Resource View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
$2.4 billion and, given deregulation in the banking sector in China, CMB's President was presented with new challenges and opportunities concerning how such funds should be productively allocated to ensure...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
detailed data on how their CEOs allocate their work time, which we define as their span of activity. Span of activity provides a direct measure of the CEO's management style, including the attention devoted to specific subordinates View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
of sugary drinks. Four well-powered, incentive-compatible experiments evaluate two possible ways in which firms might comply with such a policy: bundles (i.e., dividing the contents of oversized cups into two regulation-sized cups) View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
and the technology. Therefore, rather than allocate capital to competing projects (the zero-sum game), senior managers must nurture individual expertise View Details