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- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
alternative investment strategies. Finally, did the institution have sufficient resources to manage such a portfolio, and was the investment committee providing sufficient oversight. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration; Ramana Nanda, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration; Abhiman Da, of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; and Arti Grover and Ejaz Ghani, both of... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
PublicationsHow Much Is a Reduction of Your Customers' Wait Worth? An Empirical Study of the Fast-Food Drive-Thru Industry Based on Structural Estimation Methods Authors:Gad Allon, Awi Federgruen, and Margaret P. Pierson Publication:Manufacturing and Service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
greater clarity about the relationship between financial and nonfinancial key performance indicators; better management decisions; deeper engagement with the broad stakeholder community; and lower reputational risk. How Can Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Publications August 2013 Palgrave Macmillan The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World By: Reinert, Sophus A., and Pernille Røge, eds. Abstract—This volume recasts our understanding of the practical and theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Creating World-Class Board Governance at SECO
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Emer Moloney
In Spring 2023, SECO CEO Massimo Mauri had the ambition to grow the €200 million revenue technology company to a €1 billion company by 2030. Founded in Italy in the 1970s, the family-owned company had gone through a period of growth and internationalization,... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Business Model; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Engineering; Governance; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Growth and Development Strategy; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Going Public; Strategic Planning; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Value Creation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Italy; Europe; Germany; United States; China
Palepu, Krishna G., and Emer Moloney. "Creating World-Class Board Governance at SECO." Harvard Business School Case 123-082, June 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
Publications October 2014 Harvard Business Review Press Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors That Drive Effective Selling By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract—There are many books that provide strategy advice and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
Instead of seeking patents, many inventors and firms choose to keep the details of their innovations secret, out of the public view. But what are the implications of keeping important new ideas locked away in vaults as trade secrets? Does... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
federal and state governments, and negative publicity driven by special interest groups." Shadreck Saili added, "Is a company this large manageable? 'Yes' for as long as its policies align with policies of the environments it... View Details
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
disturbed that nobody had mentioned the non-compete before he accepted the job, Marx signed willingly, assuming such documents were commonplace. “It's clear that that inventors are leaving states that enforce non-competes for states that don't." Fast-forward a few... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?
commonTreasury and fiscal harmonization. Europe must ensure that its efforts have the support of public opinion and are not seen, as too often in the past, as the product of political and technocratic elites. Not an easy task without more... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
Boston predict which places might be violating public health regulations. And it is working with an education nonprofit in Watertown, Mass., Education Resource Strategies, to study how school districts spend money. "The outcome is that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
formation, and innovation. He is also a partner of the international management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he is a leader of its Innovation practice. Chakravorti has advised over 30 Fortune 500 companies on innovation,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
this phenomenon which is forthcoming in Shane M. Greenstein & Victor Stango (Eds.), Standards and Public Policy, Cambridge University Press. As for the future of Web browsers, the standard has been set, and it will be very hard to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
Evolution as a System of Governance, due for publication November 2009. The purpose of this monograph is to put forth an original concept of capitalism as a system of governance, including a theory of how it functions at any point in time... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
what they should decide. Paper: http://hbr.org/2012/12/how-much-is-sweat-equity-worth/ar/1 When Identities, Interests, and Information Collide: How Subgroups Create Hidden Profiles in Teams Authors:Polzer, Jeff, and Lisa Kwan Publication:In Research on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
setting up a thought experiment, this exercise challenges students to examine their own assumptions about the meaning of the word "public" in public education, as well as to understand competing assumptions held by others.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
conservatorship, experts from public, private, and academic worlds concurred: housing finance in the United States was mortally flawed. The private sector reaped the gains while the public sector absorbed the risk. In the aftermath of the... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents
offices. Here's my proposal: I ask that the Association of University Technology Managers establish a set of standards, balancing public interests and private incentives, that would encourage the development... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
and Kolkata, India—where the interest of researchers, educators, and archivists has been extraordinary. Our presentations in management conferences that are interested in emerging markets have been very well attended. We’re also starting... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne