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- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
1997, Mexico inaugurated a program in which all pension contributions are collected by the State and transferred into individual investment accounts managed by private organizations, called AFORES, registered with the government and... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
divisionalized structures, which were transferred worldwide as U.S. companies expanded abroad. This combination of delegation of responsibility to professional management and coordination and control through sophisticated management... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa By: Balasubramanian, Karthik, and David F. Drake Abstract—The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters - Recruiting
students. Be honest about salary levels/grades, and timelines for interviews and decision making It may feel like you’re sharing a secret by talking honestly about salary, and you may worry about scaring away candidates if your interview... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
but all share a belief in the importance of understanding change over time. Publisher's site: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Business/History/ The Effect of Macro Information Environment Change on the Quality of Management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
of family-owned and-managed firms. It may sound a simplistic conclusion that there has never been "one best way" of achieving business success. However, this historical experience stands as a powerful corrective to over-simplistic management fads and... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) is sharing Working Knowledge articles to further educate our recruiting partners about best practices in human resources. Employee orientation programs ought to be less about the company and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 07 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands
Twist stepped down as CEO and into the Board Chair role at Ever/Body. She is now an advisor for other consumer health and wellness founders on strategic growth, fundraising, and organizational design. She also actively serves as interim operator, applying the View Details
- Web
Latin America - Global Activities 2021
frequently encountered other leaders who share her experience and her perspective as a woman and a mother. That’s why one particular case, “Karen Bruck: Growing Managers at MercadoLibre,” has resonated with her. The new case, written by... View Details
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
we (as common people) be thinking into how to share solutions ?) ... Our ideas, our knowledge, should be public." Or do you feel, as Gaurav does, that "the creator is the owner! If not, people will not create"? (Of course,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
could be welcome. Moreover, if shareholders are the recipients of all this value, then this would just be a transfer from tax authorities to shareholders. Unfortunately, the evidence is more mixed on the degree to which shareholders... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
risks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2332106 Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz Abstract—We consider market rules for transferring IP addresses, numeric... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
Through the Generations Rodolfo, Marco, and Edoardo De Benedetti had received from their father his controlling shares in COFIDE, a publicly listed holding company that held 45.8% of CIR Group, another publicly listed holding. The latter... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
less busy than the present, they may underweight the value of these purchases. We examine the impact of debiasing this previously unexplored barrier of consumer decisions to "buy time" in a field experiment with a U.S.-based View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Working with Spaces, Files & Folders - Research Computing Services
preference files, work that is considered 'in development'. Project folders are shared locations, and ideally used for collaborative project spaces. Please see our recommendation below on organizing project spaces. NOTE: Only those... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
brings together those voices to create greater awareness about what is going on and transfer those insights outward, but also builds some synergies around the research being conducted and catalyzed at HBS. What is the most critical... View Details
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
Chipotle Mexican Grill’s ongoing struggle to win customers back months after a contaminated food crisis highlights the challenges companies face with keeping food safe. Chipotle has seen its shares tumble and recently reported its... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
of investment greatly matters. Accordingly, prior studies find that cash holdings enable firms to increase product market share at the expense of their rivals. Recently, however, U.S. multinational firms have received a lot of attention... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
country's lead in innovation. “R&D is a critical part of the innovation process, but it is not the whole thing” In this excerpt, Pisano and Shih discuss the concept of the "industrial commons." In the past a commons—a shared farming... View Details
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
TDC's shares to force compulsory redemption under Denmark law. However, a pension fund that held 5.5% of the outstanding stock has rejected the offer. Should Nordic Telephone lower its 90% acceptance threshold and purchase TDC without a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace