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- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
chypre, and was the first perfumer to sell his wares in elegantly designed glass bottles, rather than in the pharmaceutical bottles used previously. An ambitious believer in globalization, he even sent his energetic mother-in-law to open...
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- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
struck effectively institutionalized corruption and slowed growth in the long-run. A second possible solution to the problem, of course, is to get another more powerful country to create the rule of law where it does not exist. The US-Panama relationship between 1903...
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- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
represent only one component of wartime harm, they nevertheless have profound effects. Specifically, civilians who lose a home to barrel bombing are more likely to see the Assad regime as a greater threat to themselves personally and to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
functional form of the underlying model that best represents the data. Thus researchers could use such methods to explore novel and robust patterns in data, allowing the researcher to engage in inductive or abductive theory building. ML’s...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
members (meaning not family members or company managers), and a small number of family representatives. Family representatives are not necessarily family owners and may or may not be family managers. Family View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
board accountability through greater transparency in decision making, more representative vote allocation, or better parliamentary scrutiny. In other words, although civil society efforts have led to some gains in accountability with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
class supplier to design and build a turnkey automotive painting facility in Oakville, Canada. Ford and ABB agreed to work together in an initial preparatory phase, rejecting the traditional approach of bids based on incomplete...
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- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
Publications 2006 Journal of Organization Design The Strategic Fitness Process: A Collaborative Action Research Method for Developing Organizational Prototypes and Dynamic Capabilities By: Beer, Michael Abstract—Organizations...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?
It stands to reason that every major company has a unique set of strategic goals. Consequently, it stands to reason that the chief executive’s compensation package should be uniquely designed to align to those goals, while addressing the...
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- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
Professor of Business Administration. Tip: Use COVID-19 as a time to reflect Make time for introspection. The coronavirus represents a historic inflection point that is likely to forever change us, as did the assassination of President...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
Recruitment and selection are now more important for various reasons. Due to the data and analytical tasks facing many sales forces, productivity ramp-up times have increased. Each hire then represents a bigger sunk cost for a longer...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
consumption growth by a representative agent with a high elasticity of intertemporal substitution. This paper documents several empirical difficulties for the model as calibrated by Bansal and Yaron (BY, 2004) and Bansal, Kiku, and Yaron...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
their way up the mountain. After the two days testing, and constant interactive feedback, the design team returned to headquarters and immediately debriefed and extracted key learnings. Prototypes were quickly developed and sent to...
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by David A. Garvin
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
like that was explicitly designed to engage the drives, the skills, the smarts, and the emotions of such people in a collaborative effort to design, produce, and sell products and services of value to the wider world? After we have...
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
November 2016 Quarterly Journal of Economics Stereotypes By: Bordalo, Pedro, Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present a model of stereotypes based on Kahneman and Tversky's representativeness...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure...
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- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
fewer managing directors, portfolio managers, and analysts—were Black. “There are now many more firms founded by underrepresented minority leaders,” Viceira says. “But they still are a small proportion of this very big industry, which View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
exercise a systemwide role despite being only a small part of their ecosystems' mass. Despite Microsoft's pervasive impact, for example, it remains only a small part of the computing ecosystem. Both its revenue and number of employees View Details
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by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
paper addresses these questions by analyzing the available evidence on two related claims: (1) that the current U.S. policy of deferring taxation of foreign profits represents a subsidy to American firms and (2) that activity abroad by...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)
headquarters maximize an organization's overall revenues by efficiently (and effectively) monitoring the desires of consumers representing a wide range of ethnicities and income levels, large families and singletons? Much has been written...
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