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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
inventing high-quality, cost-competitive products. One problem is that it's hard to tell when moving production far from R&D will do damage. To make that determination, we say that executives need to examine two things. The first is modularity, or the degree to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
transcend rational thinking." The course, which debuted in 1995, is designed to optimize the marketing efforts of entrepreneurs, who typically lack the time and resources for conventional marketing activity.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
a comprehensive sample of shareholder activism between 2004 and 2011, we find that directors are almost twice as likely to leave over a two-year period if the firm is the subject of a shareholder activist campaign. While it has been argued that proxy contests are an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
variables approach. The negative effect is strongest in poor countries, suggesting that high profits stymie economic development rather than enable it. Consistent with the rent-seeking mechanism of the model, we find that high rents are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
rate. We discuss the implications of our findings for retail inventory and assortment planning and for the design of retail stores. Working PapersDoes Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Beyond By Brooks Fenno (MBA 1962) Prime Publishing A Purposeful Life: Ages 80, 90 & Beyond offers a positive learning approach for optimizing our latter years, and is designed to be helpful in enriching and... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying and building technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is involvement in product View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
ventilation system that cycles the air every few seconds and a secondary system designed to blow out any pathogens or insects that might have snuck past earlier garrisons. All of this security is in place to protect—sans pesticides—the... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these workers are 1) what guidance to deliver and 2) what kind of training (if any) to provide. We examine these choices in the context of mobile money platforms—systems that allow... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
and build technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is involvement in product design important, or is manufacturing the key locus of learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
Review article, “What’s the Optimal Workplace for Your Organization?” The article itself, with its two-by-two matrix of strategic space configurations, is an illustration of the value of face time. “This project would very much not exist... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Fukushima’s nuclear reactors, which were designed by GE. But Immelt’s biggest challenge was inherited: Welch had handed over a company that had great people, but was short on innovation. Immelt set out to change GE’s focus by making it... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
protect firm value, helping their firm better withstand negative business shocks. We formally explore two parallel mechanisms for such protection: one of building moral capital (CSR Contributions) and another of improving investor... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
examine the psychological mechanism explaining the relationship between bad weather and increased productivity. Our findings support our proposed model and suggest that worker productivity is higher on bad rather than good weather days.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
Conant, he taught in a leadership course that he had designed for the company's high-potential managers. In all cases, higher-ambition leaders identified future leaders and developed them—usually through cross-functional and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
some of our main values and make choices about society. Some of the biggest trade-offs we make are made when deciding tax policy. One of the things I've been disappointed about with the talk around this particular reform is that there hasn't been much discussion of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
rapid growth can be sustained, will peter out, or even be reversed. The mechanisms for elite commitment to sustained inclusive growth are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/Output/191883/Default.aspx Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
I show that the scarcity of these coveted assets created by increased bank capital requirements can reduce overall bank funding costs and increase bank lending. I quantify this mechanism in a two-sector business cycle model featuring a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
56.9% for all other analyst recommendations. We also show that appointed analysts' optimism is stronger at precisely those times when firms' benefits are larger. Lastly, we find that appointing firms are more likely to have management on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
and launched the fund in early 2003. While the firm performed well during 2003 and 2004 (both in terms of returns and new assets), in 2005 the results began to suffer. Describes the process of designing the firm, the resulting team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace