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- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
Results also show that third-party sellers affected by Amazon's entry appear to be discouraged from growing their businesses on the platform subsequently. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2533616 Cases & Course... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2010
- Working Paper
The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability
By: Alnoor Ebrahim
What does it mean for a nonprofit organization to be accountable? Nonprofit leaders tend to pay attention to accountability once a problem of trust arises—a scandal in the sector or in their own organization, questions from citizens or donors who want to know if their... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Performance Evaluation; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Strategy
Ebrahim, Alnoor. "The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-069, February 2010.
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
Nicolas P. Retsinas is Senior Lecturer in Real Estate, Harvard Business School and former Federal Housing Commissioner. Rob Couch is Counsel, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings and former President of GNMA. Over six years ago, when the federal... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
a business opportunity from the perspective of a "triple bottom line"-a performance evaluation scheme focused on "people, planet, and profit" that construes success in terms of social benefits, environmental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-064.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsLinkedIn Corporation Francois Brochet and James WeberHarvard Business School Case 112-006 The purpose of this case is to help students critically evaluate the market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
before—coordinating all the top minds in the top office. "CEOs are spending more and more time with their direct reports, in larger and longer meetings," says Julie M. Wulf, an associate professor of strategy at Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
According to experts at the conference session titled "From Bubble to Recession: The Current State of the Venture Capital Industry," none of the answers are simple, but a sense of perspective remains one highly valuable commodity. According to Walter... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
articles. Much of Porter's thinking originally appeared in the pages of the Harvard Business Review. Eleven of those seminal articles are collected in On Competition, a book published by the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
"The study of e-commerce has unfolded in much the same way that e-commerce thrust itself on the business world—with a great deal of overstatement," says Marc J. Epstein, Visiting Professor and Wyss Visiting Scholar in Social... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
conclude that business leadership would be wise to push past pride and the false sense of self importance, and include within the decision making process those in the enterprise who know the actual nuts and... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
of doing things" and shape its international organization structure and processes. Business historian Alfred Chandler has traced the influence of the cultural values and social structures on British management practice. For reasons... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
greater competence. August 2013 Business History Review Charting Dynamic Trajectories: Multinational Firms in India By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—In this article, we provide a synthesizing framework that we call the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
Jones, G. Abstract—This article highlights the role of business enterprises as influences on ideals of human beauty. The homogenization of such ideals has been one of the most noteworthy features of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. The... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
is happening is business as usual. Microsoft is facing a race with time and the markets to re-deploy monopoly profits from a waning desktop opportunity in order to become more competitive with sumos in other parts of the information... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
quality metrics are unreliable and thus, recent legislation may result in unintended consequences. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54443 in press Business History Internment as a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
investment, and how do corporations keep their bearings in a bureaucratic maze of regulations? Does the promise of payoff exceed the challenges of doing business in countries that are in the midst of reform? Those questions were... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
Editor's note: The economy of Greece is in the depths of despair—a fitting topic for a Greek tragedy. As investor Wilbur Ross (HBS MBA 1961) has poignantly put it, "The country that brought us democracy may now take itself into chaos." We asked three Harvard... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’
nurtured in different educational and institutional settings. The question, then, is this: does China have a good institutional framework for innovation? Our answer at present is no: the governance structures of Chinese state-owned View Details
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
misapplication). We conclude with an outline of future research directions and introduce the special issue papers and essays. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52911 July–August 2017 Harvard Business Review... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne