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- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the headlines and provokes the most public and... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
facing a venture with an historically premium-priced strategy in an ecommerce environment where promotions and discounts have become the norm. The case concerns the interaction of branding, channel, and pricing in a firm as well as the impact of Amazon View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
per-person basis. On the other hand, the Japanese government was calling for financial and governance reform as part of the prime minister’s recently announced economic growth strategy known as “Abenomics.” Although Inaba and his team had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
infamous, in the United Kingdom as first lady from 1997 to 2007. Her marriage to Tony Blair, however, was the result of her own groundbreaking career in law—a career she fought to keep during the 10 years of her husband's tenure as prime... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
those of the 1970s and 1980s. The world has changed much since former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher first began implementing large-scale privatizations. In fact, we document some cases of present-day competitive SOEs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Houdt) Thirty or forty angry Afghan police officers crowded into Karim Khoja’s office. Someone had stolen their pay, and the prime suspect was the CEO of Roshan, the company offering the new mobile payment system that was used to process... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
better public management," Domínguez says, "but you also begin to get more farsighted economic policies that allow business enterprises to invest and ordinary Brazilians to save." Then came what Domínguez calls the "happy accident" of China. Some of Brazil's View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
entrepreneurs have excelled both as progenitors of startup enterprises and as prime movers in the transformation of small or medium-sized companies into corporate giants. In this role, since World War II, they have had a remarkable impact... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
Tommy Pan Fang and University of British Columbia business professor David Clough. Wu’s research centers on strategies used by technology entrepreneurs to achieve scale for competitive advantage. Platforms are prime real estate for such... View Details
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
the company cited in 2007 as one of three prime example firms demonstrating "the future of management" by thought leader Gary Hamel. Schmidt and Rosenberg describe a philosophy that is centered around hiring "smart... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
outbreak sites. It primed political leaders to understand both the far-reaching consequences of outbreaks and the need to make rapid containment a high priority. SARS stimulated efforts to find ways to lessen the impact of the next... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
change, Girard’s next step was off the court and onto Wall Street as a Prime Brokerage Associate at Goldman Sachs. “While at Goldman Sachs, I knew I wanted something more entrepreneurial for my career,” said Girard. “Specifically, I had... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
participants along the way to the end customer understand, perhaps for the first time, the levers that motivate their partners up and down the line. As a result, all participants are better primed for the give-and-take required to create... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
government group, which reports to the prime minister, after the tragic scope of the pandemic had become clear. Her job—not that different from the role of a VC—is to build and lead a team to identify promising vaccine candidates and... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
ground-floor space in the Fisher and various operators are considering a boutique hotel in one wing of the building. Cummings and his partners were considering luxury condos in the upper reaches of the building, but they worry that Detroit may not yet be ready for the... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
who founded Prime Coalition, and Fiona Murray of MIT’s Sloan School, found that investors—men and women—prefer ventures pitched by men, especially those pitched by attractive men. This finding held true when the researchers evaluated the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
with their coauthors Sarah Wood Kearney, who founded Prime Coalition, and Fiona Murray of MIT’s Sloan School, found that investors—men and women—prefer ventures pitched by men, especially those pitched by attractive men. This finding held... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
percent a year and is poised on the cusp of enormous change. In June, Prime View International (PVI) signed an agreement to acquire E Ink for about $215 million. Based in Taipei, Taiwan, PVI is E Ink’s largest customer and the world’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
make up for lost years, he was surprised to find himself at Harvard at age 23. Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures through the Science of Total Motivation by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor (MBA 2013)... View Details