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- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Author: M. H. Bazerman Publication: In Acting in Time on Energy Policy, edited by David T. Ellwood and Kelly Gallagher. Brookings, in press No abstract is available at this time. Interactivity's Unanticipated Consequences for Markets and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
it’s like dating yourself. The energy and freshness come from being with someone different. I look for qualities in two people that will complement, not mirror, one another. When I begin with a new client, I ask him or her to connect me...
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- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
consider how the reductions in aircraft capacity growth should be spread across the two plane types. This discussion hinges not only on issues of aircraft efficiency but also on those of operational focus and the ultimate competitive...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
American life. New technologies, such as the cell phone and BlackBerry, came to be viewed as necessities. Firms selling small luxuries, such as Starbucks, which created an enormous market for specialty coffee, grew to rival the size of more View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
they have lost time for those casual conversations that come before and after a meeting or from just walking in the hallway or bumping into folks you might otherwise never know at work when you're grabbing coffee. Post-COVID, I encourage leaders to foster the same...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
outstanding contribution to the community and potential to drive change for years to come. When fully implemented, Connections will allow 2,600 students from eight to 10 schools to participate in a sequential, four-year curriculum of island-based learning modules that...
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- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
We find that the deregulations reduced financing constraints, particularly among small startups, and improved ex ante allocative efficiency across the entire firm-size distribution. However, the US deregulations also led to a dramatic...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
regulation. In general, level playing fields impose the standards of the weakest regulator upon the best-regulated economies. However, they may be desirable when capital is mobile because they counter a cherry-picking effect that lowers...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
and software programs have been helping teachers better manage their time so that they can spend less energy on administrative work and more on teaching. "This is probably the least sexy of the innovations we looked at," says...
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- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
"Let's focus on becoming much more efficient in competitive terms." And it worked in accomplishing that objective. But it fails to connect to all the constituencies—other than the shareholders—whose View Details
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by Harvard Management Update
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
attracting, screening, and training personnel are far from trivial." Institutions that devote energy to outbound calls (i.e. telemarketing) stand to become distracted from delivering effective service to their existing clients. The...
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- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
introduces methods for increasing the efficiency of retail store liquidation, which we define as the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The retail industry depends extensively on...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
fast-growing Series C start-up, in New York that provided data intelligence software to large enterprises. She later returned to Europe to join her family investment firm, Atlas Invest, investing in energy companies....
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- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
normal. Robert S. Huckman (@robert_huckman) is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the faculty chair of the HBS Health Care Initiative. Virtual medicine will become a standard...
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by Danielle Kost
- 10 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
Series C start-up, in New York that provided data intelligence software to large enterprises. She later returned to Europe to join her family investment firm, Atlas Invest, investing in energy companies. Product-Market-Founder Fit During...
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- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
describes the purpose of boards is phrased very broadly. For instance, in Delaware, which sets the standard for other states, directors find little help in the statute that defines their job: "The business and affairs of every corporation...
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by Jay Lorsch
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
the cost and schedule overruns. In general, I think the project would have benefited from more "for-profit" incentives—if there's not clear incentives to be efficient and make profits, people won't. To address this concern in...
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- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
corporate standards in Brazil improved enormously, not only because the regulator became tougher and introduced more transparent disclosure standards, but also because there was a big movement to improve corporate governance led by...
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- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and internal monitoring of operations. We test our theory in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
for our shareholders" or "By pursuing sound environmental, social, and governance policies we are creating value for our shareholders, all other stakeholders, and society at large." Of course, sustainable strategies are not that easy. Investments to improve View Details
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by Martha Lagace