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- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Astrachan, Pieper M. Pieper and Peter Jaskiewicz. The International Library of Critical Writings on Business and Management Series. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009 Abstract Providing clear goals for a company and communicating them are among the most... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new entrants seem particularly drawn to areas with many smaller suppliers, as suggested by Chinitz (1961). Abundant workers in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
for Integrated Electronics), Grove started as director of operations before rising through the ranks to COO in 1979. For the next two years he presided over an all-out crusade with the fearsome name of Operation CRUSH. Powered by Intel’s... View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19
K. SebeniusHarvard Business School Case 912-003 Roger Caracappa must negotiate a cost-saving, innovative proposal from a potential French supplier that could displace the otherwise satisfactory, long-time incumbent supplier. Shortly after... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Abstract—Liability laws designed to compensate for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation. We examine this issue by exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by U.S. suppliers of polymers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
provides strong prima facie evidence that firms have recognized the value of financing capital assets through project companies. Even though it is very costly and time consuming to use project finance, the potential benefits far outweigh the costs for certain kinds of... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
the best possible solution to complicated public policy problems,” he says, weighing all the evidence against a gut feeling. Beyond his business acumen, it’s also possible that Mitsotakis inherited a bit of political instinct. The prime minister comes from one of the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
with the model's predictions, we find that whether a firm integrates upstream or downstream suppliers depends crucially on the elasticity of demand for its final product. Moreover, a firm's propensity to integrate a given stage of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
happened in natural gas in the late 1980s and early 1990s. And, there's always money to be saved in industrial sourcing. If management really focuses on purchasing and puts effort into it, you can always save money by creating more competition between View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
University of California law professor Jodi Short, and HBS doctoral student Andrea Hugill examined factors such as whether it was more effective to send the same auditors back to a company or send new auditors with each audit. The answer: Audit teams revisiting the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
women, by founding the temporary-staffing agency Tempstaff and lobbying to strike down laws that stifled the temp industry. Tempstaff now has approximately 3,300 employees and is a public company. For the past nine years, Shinohara has been on Fortune's list of the 50... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
suppliers and reselling them, in the process absorbing all the risk of platform failure. In stage two, the firm shifts risk and control back to some or all of its suppliers, giving them more responsibility for managing inventory, pricing,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
tight monetary policy. The bank-to-bond substitution can only be measured for firms with access to bond markets. However, we show that this substitution behavior has strong predictive power for bank borrowing and investments by small,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
plan can be a model. But he thinks it should be looked at on a state-by-state basis — rather than as a one-size-fits-all, federally funded, mandated national plan — to accommodate the particular circumstances of each state. And he warns that even though Massachusetts... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
component firms and sustain overall system-level innovation over the longer term. We present two longitudinal case studies, drawn from the IT industry, which provide contrasting examples of outsourcing strategies in terms of the number of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
suppliers and providers adhere to Aracruz's environmental principles. The company is also involved in both the public and private sectors in fostering legislation and policy that will enhance sustainable development. That proactive... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
that only large enterprises could attempt. IBM, for instance, has created a nonprofit partnership, World Community Grid, through which any organization or individual can donate unused computing power to research projects and see what is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
paper uses data from the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finances to test the relationship between the banks' market power and households' self-reported levels of credit constraints. The 1983 Survey was the last to identify households' geographic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
accelerate through the crisis. We are finding that there are three stages of addressing a crisis: Stabilize and defend your core business by engaging employees, customers, suppliers and members of your community to identify and address... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost