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- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
Publications September 2014 Research in Organizational Behavior The Governance of Social Enterprises: Mission Drift and Accountability Challenges in Hybrid Organizations By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, Julie Battilana, and Johanna Mair Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
government and corruption and trying to get rules that people abide by," adds Ray Goldberg, the George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School, who conducts research in West Africa. "Because... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government
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Trade and Investment Business, Government & the International Economy Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Mark Roberge Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling Entrepreneurial Management Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Entrepreneurial... View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
first dimension relates to the degree to which the collaborative network is "open" verses "closed." The second dimension relates to the degree to which the governance structure for collaboration is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
playbook, but it has cultivated an additional source of revenue: the sale of conservation easements. Lyme Timber buys pieces of land targeted by conservation groups such as the Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land, which pay... View Details
- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
customer intimacy but product innovation; the CEO will need to spend time with his chief scientists, medical opinion leaders, government regulators, and CEOs of the companies distributing pharmaceuticals, but not so much time with end... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
a mix of both. Wherever clubs fall on this spectrum, having a strategy that recognizes the global importance of stars is critical to long-lasting financial success. August 2013 Journal of Finance A Comparative-Advantage Approach to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/articles/2010/fall/52118/how-to-do-well-and-do-good/ Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors Authors:Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
there is only Box 3. But very quickly, you get into Box 1. Take Square. Its Box 3 opportunity was micromerchants who want to take credit cards but don’t generate enough sales to have an expensive, big credit card processing machine.... View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
make a significant decision about their young company's sales function. DoubleDutch's key product was a mobile application (app) and event management platform that customers could use to better engage and connect with their event... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
sales forces, and phone-based payment services using power from car batteries, because often they have no electricity,” says Duch, who once described his job in a Class Notes update as “making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes.’”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
the "Big Owe." It took that city 30 years to repay the municipal debt—$1.5 billion in 1976 dollars, or more than $6 billion today. Sometimes "building new urban infrastructure" is a justification for hosting the Games, but this is more of a View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
suspect that the economists at the Boston Fed might say that a weaker EU economy suggests somewhat weaker US growth, since many US exporters depend on sales to the EU region. The oil price outlook matters, too, because it affects both the... View Details
- February 1996 (Revised June 1996)
- Teaching Note
General Mills Board and Strategic Planning and Lukens Inc., The: The Melters' Committee (A) & (B) TN
By: Jay W. Lorsch, Cynthia A. Montgomery and Lisa J. Chadderdon
Teaching Note for (9-491-117), (9-493-070), and (9-493-071). View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015
advertising revenues that are affecting the entire publishing industry. As a result, HBR circulation revenue reached a third consecutive all-time high. Higher education group sales also were up, year-over-year, largely because of... View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
decide if the risk governance process is adequate to uncover mega-risks, based on reflections on the risk assessment and sanctioning of a $1 billion credit proposal. Students are invited to assess and review the risks in the proposal,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
non-CEO executives in banks with materialistic CEOs insider trade more aggressively around government intervention during the financial crisis. Finally, we find that banks with materialistic CEOs have significantly more downside tail risk... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
Hood needed to correct missteps made on Ballmer’s watch. First up: the $9.5 billion Nokia deal. Less than a year after closing, it was foundering and had missed Hood’s initial forecast for sales and savings. “Once the forecast failed to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
critical, although changing role in determining constraints and opportunities in the communications sector." Turning to the issue of privatization, Emmons explains that governments in both developed and developing countries have... View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
the income taxes paid by residents with good jobs, from the tolls paid by drivers, from property and sales taxes. Without revenue, costs can't be covered. Can cities with high liabilities expect to be bailed out and propped up without... View Details