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- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
The founders wondered whether they should change the approach to growth: Should they slow it down temporarily or maintain the growth rate (and fix operational issues)? There was a high probability that BlackBuck's cash balances would fall...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
unresponsiveness of contribution rates to their tax treatment: (1) employee confusion about or neglect of the tax properties of Roth balances and (2) partition dependence. Publisher's link:...
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- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
the severity of pension plan underfunding, state budget deficits, and the use of high discount rates. Further we find opposing states are subject to more stringent balanced budget requirements and greater political pressure from unions....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
112-048 This auto parts company has just ousted its longtime CEO and founder, and the new, professional CEO is badly in need of a coherent strategy, clear objectives and metrics, and initiatives that are aligned with the strategy and objectives. Will the View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
international capital to local infrastructure decides how to balance range of services, risk-adjusted return, margin pressure, and nation building. IDFC was chartered with partial ownership from the Indian government to help evaluate...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
fall, there's also an implicit guarantee of government rescue for any firm that in the future may be identified as too big to fail. "What's worse, these firms impose costs on society by creating systemic risks that they don't have to bear on their View Details
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
compiled a detailed curriculum analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health of MBA programs but on View Details
- 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007
exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its short-run effect on aggregate demand, prices, the national accounts, savings, and the balance of payments. We find that aid is mostly consumed, primarily...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
forty-fourth president of the United States in late 2008 unleashed a current of collective idealism that washed across the planet. At the same time, the intensifying economic crisis created much larger roles for government intervention in global markets. This, in turn,...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
value would necessarily trump another, and any decision would have to be evaluated by taking all such values into account and balancing them against each other. Once there is a consensus on which values are important, future business...
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by Carla Tishler
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
out and market these initiatives across the chain. Ellison also considered how to build upon the company’s new ad campaign, Get Your Penney’s Worth, and how to strike the right balance between serving its “core” and “emerging” customer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
pharmaceutical company GSK must choose how much to integrate a recently acquired biotechnology firm, Sirtris. Moncef Slaoui, GSK's global head of R&D, championed the acquisition of Sirtris to gain access to its potentially revolutionary science. Slaoui must View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
financial standpoint, such an investment would be very difficult for VNHS to justify. The irony was that with the new regulatory pressures and increased focus on preventative healthcare, telemonitoring pointed to an effective tool in managing and reducing acute care...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
purpose and use. Anteby relies on observations at retirees' homes, archival data, interviews, and surveys to understand how plant workers and managers make sense of this tacit practice. He argues that when patrolled, gray zones like the production of homers offer...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
On October 3, 2005, Washington Mutual acquired Providian Financial Corporation, the ninth-largest credit card issuer in the U.S., for $6.5 billion. At the time, Providian had approximately 10 million customer relationships and a balance...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
efficiency and long-term adaptability are inherently incompatible. Organization theorists have conceptualized Abernathy's dilemma as the challenge of balancing exploitation and exploration. Exploitation leverages existing knowledge and...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
including the Federal Communication Commission in the United States, curtail the integration of media markets to promote "localism." To find the right balance between the private benefits of integrated markets and the public...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
way for higher rates of customer acquisition and higher rates of repeat purchasing among existing customers in the direct channels in the long term. Our results are based on intervention analysis with a treatment/control group design. We achieve greater View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
as well as recent articles that help give the reader a sense of where the field is headed and where likely opportunities for future research lie. This article seeks to strike an equilibrium among the variety of perspectives that exist in technology and innovation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
have often proved highly productive in policy terms, delivering the best ideas from both sides. In the 1840s, for instance, state politicians who were deeply skeptical of government pushed hard for balanced budget amendments while...
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Sean Silverthorne