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- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
since the early part of the twentieth century, he believes the time may be right for significant change. He's not alone. Theodore Zeldin, a British historian who has spent a great deal of time studying the world of work, stated recently in an interview with the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
participants with management in creating a new management approach and then researching its efficacy. The process has been used successfully at companies such as Merck, Honeywell, and Hewlett-Packard in addition to Becton Dickinson, and at organizational levels ranging... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- September 2010
- Case
Aaron's: Household Goods for the U.S. Base of the Pyramid
By: Michael Chu and Charles Augustus Smithgall IV
With $2.5 billion system-wide revenues, Aaron's, a major rent-to-own supplier to the U.S. base of the pyramid, continues to grow in the recession, but CEO R.C. Loudermilk, Jr. wonders how long the company can sustain the fast growth rate of its past. Founded in 1955,... View Details
Keywords: Fairness; For-Profit Firms; Renting or Rental; Financial Crisis; Demand and Consumers; Social Enterprise; Income; Goods and Commodities; Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; United States
Chu, Michael, and Charles Augustus Smithgall IV. "Aaron's: Household Goods for the U.S. Base of the Pyramid." Harvard Business School Case 311-047, September 2010.
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage describes organizations that, Beer says, "are diametrically opposite to the firms we saw fail on Wall Street. The book's perspective also... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 16, 2007
low capitalization, younger, unprofitable, high volatility, non-dividend paying, growth companies, or stocks of firms in financial distress, are likely to be disproportionately sensitive to broad waves of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Globalor No? Can You Make the Case?
Ever wanted to judge a Harvard Business Review case study? Here's your chance. In its June issue, Harvard Business Review published an account of the fictional company, DataClear, authored by Harvard Business School associate professor Walter Kuemmerle. The View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom By: Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—Many have argued that overoptimistic thinking on the part of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
difficult," responded Anthony C. Hooper, president of Bristol-Myers Squibb Intercontinental Region, recalling how last-minute pricing interference by the Chinese government wreaked havoc with the financials he'd been preparing for a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
inside the firm to create subunits that define the operating core. As you will see, responsiveness is the critical objective for units close to the customer; economic efficiency and cost control are more important for units in the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
enjoyment. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51423 Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We develop a theoretical model of, and... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
forthcoming PublicAffairs Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal By: Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract—From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, the failings of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
between firm payout policy and tax incentives. Analysis of a panel of firms matched with the tax characteristics of the clients of their institutional shareholders indicates that "dividend-averse"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
PublicationsMisvaluing Innovation Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We demonstrate that a firm's ability to innovate is predictable, persistent, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
2016 Self-published Introduction to Financial Accounting: Review Quizzes and Practice Exams By: Narayanan, V.G. Abstract—This book provides practice multiple choice questions on introductory accounting topics. It can be used to prepare... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
serving on political councils, political legacy, and financial resources-affect the likelihood of firms issuing CSR reports. Second, we focus on the symbolic nature of CSR reporting and how variance in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
buyout market: RLBOs performed strongly in the late 1980s, the mid-1990s, and the 2000s. Large RLBOs that are backed by private equity firms with more capital under management perform better. We also find the so-called quick flips—when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that adopt GPs experience negative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
truly reintegrate into society if few firms will hire them? And, how can society—especially at a time of rising prices and low unemployment—afford to exclude the roughly one in three working Americans with criminal records from the... View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
in the ways they do business. Moreover, hub firms themselves must do a better job leading responsibly for the good of all, not just creating and capturing value but doing more to sustain other players in the ecosystem. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: Should they go it alone or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel