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- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
from Dice-K in the 2007 season? And finally, how does the signing fit into the greater strategic context of competing with the much-better funded Yankees? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208043 Esquel Group: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
individuals can change the system. This article explains why training fails and discusses why the “great training robbery” persists. Michael Beer, Magnus Finnstrom, and Derek Schrader offer a framework for integrating leadership and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
Berlin-based nonprofit that supports "national integrity systems" to help curb corruption, Ezekwesili told the HBS audience that it's not enough for African governments to aspire to macro- and microeconomic stability. "We... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
sustainability reports. We conclude with thoughts about mandatory sustainability and integrated reporting. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-100.pdf With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
and responding to adverse drug reactions suggests that only government regulators are in a position to integrate case report and statistical analysis. Despite the appeal of fragmented post-market drug safety studies, centralization may be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
client's inner workings than someone who's already been working there full-time? “It takes a stronger reinforcement of a team culture of contribution, challenge, learning, and egalitarianism to both reverse and fortify positive processes.” It's somewhat... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
successful along the entire vertical chain in a converging world. In the course, we try to dissect where, and under what conditions, you want to focus on horizontal layers in the value chain versus offering fully integrated... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
practice, disciplinary rigor, and successful search for powerful generalizations help explain the lasting impact of their 1965 book, A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations. Central to their argument are three important "dualities" in negotiation: View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
integral component of management control systems and play a significant role in achieving desirable performance outcomes. We focus on a key environmental performance objective—reduction of carbon emissions—as a setting in which to examine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
France, the group was highly decentralized, with semi-independent agencies in more than 100 countries offering a variety of services. The largest unit of Havas was Havas Worldwide, an integrated marketing communications agency... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
They collected application data using the US Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System database, and when data for a particular college wasn’t available, they contacted the school’s admissions office for... View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
Vanity resort developments are not replicable for a billion people needing new cities; the real value comes from the momentum and scale of integrated business, government, and social activity. Phu My Hung is built, with the vision and... View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
thereby limiting the scope of people willing to engage in such behaviors. The tight integration of social and economic benefits is equally important—users can obtain the social benefits only if they undertake actions that clearly benefit... View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
Their Souls Kroll had been formulating a plan for KRBA as early as 2008; in his mind, Moody's, Fitch, and S&P sold their souls to win business in the short run. KRBA would, says Becker, "value integrity above everything... View Details
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
knitting all these pieces together will require a much higher degree of integration than has been the norm in the health-care industry. Difficult though it will be, these providers need to disrupt themselves. Employers will need to play a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
Abstract Empirical evidence of imperfect integration across world capital markets suggests a role for cross-border arbitrage by multinationals. Consistent with the hypothesis that multinational arbitrage is a determinant of FDI patterns,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Kanter, 2009; Porter & Kramer, 2011). Particularly striking is the marked growth of social enterprises, which adopt a social mission as their principal objective but sustain themselves through commercial activities (Battilana and Lee, 2014; Battilana, 2015). This... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
These changes did not—as often assumed—result in the decline of family businesses but instead gave rise to a different kind of competitive and internationally oriented "Mittelstand." The study integrates approaches from new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
ambidexterity, the ability of a firm to simultaneously explore and exploit, enables a firm to adapt over time. In this paper we review and integrate these comparatively new research streams and identify a set of propositions that suggest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace