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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
has sharply declined over the past 30 years, from 60% or 70% to only about 20%. What accounts for this trend? Disruption is coming for management consulting, the authors say, as it has recently come for law. For many years the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
Egalité, Sororité: How Should France Achieve Boardroom Parité?, authored by Groysberg and Hilary Fischer-Groban. The case discusses how French legislators pondered a bill, proposed in 2009, that would mandate businesses to have women in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
standard-setting authority to an international body. There is also evidence that the likelihood of IFRS adoption at first increases and then decreases in the quality of countries' domestic governance institutions, consistent with IFRS... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
millions of customers. The third distinctive quality of the Web is something of a handicap. To be frank, the authors say, it is a boring medium when compared with television, lacking TV's power to engage fantasy and arouse emotions.... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Below are the views that faculty shared with the HBS community on Earth Day. 1. Robert G. Eccles Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and author of One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy (This article, titled,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
change to economists, political scientists, sociologists, and a host of popular writers." A renewal of interest in the "history of capitalism" is finally beginning to correct this peculiar omission. Related Article An Interview With The View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 31 Oct 2006
- HBS Case
Governing Sumida Corporation
traditional governance system and the U.S.-inspired committee system. Believing that Sumida's future was limited if it followed the status quo, Yawata presses ahead with his decision to adopt the U.S. model. The case details the... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
with very specific practices and identifiable cultures. For example, City Year, the national youth service organization, has programs in fourteen cities across the country. Its founders made a strategic decision from the start to spread a... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
the authors came to believe, government had inflicted detrimental effects not only on industry but also on the Japanese economy as a whole. Their new book Can Japan Compete? is the result of years of research by Porter, the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706036 Frederick Douglass Charter School: The Renewal Decision Harvard Business School Case 806-063 Five years after the launch of the Frederick Douglass Charter School, its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
and CEO Dan Schulman was especially vocal: “This decision reflects PayPal’s deepest values and our strong belief that every person has the right to be treated equally, and with dignity and respect,” he wrote in a statement. As the outcry... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
unpromising situation stepped Alexander Hamilton, an orphaned, illegitimate (and brilliant) native of the West Indies who grew up in St. Croix and in 1789 became the first Secretary of the Treasury. Hamilton, along with Swiss-born Albert Gallatin and other immigrants,... View Details
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
developed between analysts and managers by investigating analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed firms. We find that top executive moves from an origin firm to a destination firm trigger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
the risks are no longer connected to individuals who possess the incentive, power and capability to take action and manage the risks." Stephen Basikoti agreed, noting that "creditors have already shown themselves incapable of making better View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
service provider has a license, their hiring decision is still more driven by price and online reviews than the quality assurance that comes with licensing. New research shows that tougher licensing requirements reduce the pool of... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
one where orders need to be made before demand is realized. In our analysis, the latter situation corresponds to a newsvendor model with the additional decision of choosing a sales effort to increase demand at a convex increasing cost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808128 Linden Lab: Opening Second Life Harvard Business School Case 808-114 In early 2008, managers in Linden Lab, creator of the virtual world Second Life, faced decisions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-005.pdf The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality (revised) Author:Zeynep Ton Abstract Determining staffing levels is an important decision in retail operations. While... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
For the most part, this requires management to look closely at the roles of various parts of the business and alter the way employees interact. Increasing the pace of business innovation almost always requires reallocating decision rights... View Details