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- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
often inadequate for scaling. SG&A (selling, general, and administrative) costs then rise faster than revenues, and resource-constrained ventures are forced to raise a dilutive round of capital, operate in small niches, or go out of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
time-varying, regularized parameters, and multiplicative errors can make its quantile forecasts more accurate than leading diffusion models, such as the Bass, gamma/shifted-Gompertz, and trapezoid models. Fifth, the model's estimation procedure is based on an View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
originally adopted a functional organization structure. This enabled them to exit many marginal, local businesses and focus on the opportunities that were most promising from a global perspective. It also allowed them to introduce more View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
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Policy - Business & Environment
Hawaii, and New York City to name a few. Innovation Increasingly, business leaders from many sectors are taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their operations and supply chains—and some are going further to urge... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
knowledge of a market tends to make it more efficient and to intensify competition," Sprinkle noted. "This means that each of us had better start experimenting in this realm right now." At lunch the next day, Vincent H. Tobkin (MBA '75)... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
they seek advice from others. However, increasingly companies that operate in high-anxiety settings (like financial services, health care, and education) are deploying self-service technologies (SSTs), through which anxious customers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
Profitability Around the World Authors:Paul M. Healy, George Serafeim, Suraj Srinivasan, and Gwen Yu Abstract We examine how cross-country differences in product, capital, labor market competition, and government efficiency affect the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
rights and efficient debt enforcement mitigate the effect of excess control rights on loan spreads. Taken together, our results suggest that potential tunneling and other moral hazard activities by large shareholders are facilitated by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
From the Classroom to the Workplace: How I Applied Learnings to my Internship
interesting to note how culturally sensitive Zalando has to be as a company due to operating so closely to the customer in so many different countries. It often feels like Europe can be treated as one country, but for a digital disruptor... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- February 2010
- Teaching Note
Sealed Air China (TN)
By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan
Teaching Note for [308051]. View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
what benefits did they get? And then the even bigger question beyond cost efficiency and effectiveness is, what impact did the organization have? Granted it is very complex to get all the way to that level, but even signposts along the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
manage its operations for another three years. At that point, Murphy says, “I wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep being the guy on the ground in the developing world or get the credentials to become more involved in the big picture.” His... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
they probably didn't do a good job." Learning By Doing For decades, Harvard's case-study method has been the gold standard in business-school education, emulated around the world for its methodology that teaches students problem-solving techniques using real-world... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
quest for the Next Big Thing. The problem with corporate entrepreneurship, of course, has been that the entrepreneur must deal with the challenges of securing resources and support within an organization focused on operations that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
it to wholly separate and autonomous agencies, supported by efficient and autonomous court systems. Sadly, the Turkish judiciary and police are bywords for corrupt practices. Silverthorne: In Chapter 5, the essay’s authors explore... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
Internet more efficient at what those stores sell, what they sell may no longer needed by the customer! Those are the easier ones to see in decline. But there are some businesses that at first glance look to be OK but on close inspection... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
on Patient Length of Stay Authors:Berry Jaeker, Jillian, and Anita L. Tucker Abstract High workload, from high inventory levels, impacts unit processing times, but prior operations management studies have found conflicting results... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
you’re going to sell to a market.’” To ease the transition, Heifer provides far more than just healthy livestock. Nearly a thousand professionals in the field provide education and training in a range of technical areas. For instance, in Haiti, Heifer is teaching... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
based on the costs of using efficient processes and contingent on achieving superior outcomes. The end result will be a more effective and more productive health care sector. The paper concludes with suggestions for accounting research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne