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- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
anti-malaria campaign which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro level benefits of this campaign, which involved mass distribution of insecticide treated mosquito nets,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
group. The second is a realignment of the firm's operations around geography and key accounts. By examining the tradeoffs required by each option, the case illustrates the tensions involved in structuring an organization around product,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
horizontally. In his first months at the company, Haythornthwaite formed nine strategy teams comprising people from across the divisions, with each team focused on one of nine customer segments. When the company launched this initiative, it View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
increases sharply during peaks of private equity cycles. Deals done by bank-affiliated groups are financed at significantly better terms than other deals when the parent bank is part of the lending syndicate, especially during market peaks. While bank-affiliated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
leadership and management is to prioritize among competing accountability demands. This involves deciding both to whom and for what they owe accountability. This paper provides an overview of the accountability pressures facing nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
corporate initiative with the many business units within Siemens, which were used to being independent and had very specific offerings for their clients. For its new analytics platform, Siemens had opted for a push and pull approach to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
for several decades. More recently, however, the results have taken a downward trend, due in part to the impact of the Great Recession on the entire airline industry. Not only were premium service providers affected more significantly, but the recent wave of mergers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
product, customer, and order, but do managers act on this information? As usual in business, the first levers are leadership and management, not technology or legacy habits. Elliot Ross: After that, the tools needed are not exotic or complex. They View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
tax avoidance activity. These "book-tax" gaps are shown to be larger when firms are alleged to be involved in tax shelters. OLS estimates indicate that the average effect of tax avoidance on firm value is not significantly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
questions to reflect the corporate perspective, especially when large sums of money are involved and conditions are highly uncertain; and create a new context that allows top executives to circumvent the regular resource allocation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
its anatomy, which has worked well in other high-tech sectors, can't handle the fundamental challenges facing drug R&D: profound, persistent uncertainty and high risks rooted in the limited knowledge of human biology; the need for the diverse disciplines View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
the chain best positioned to create a process that benefits all. In this excerpt, Rangan discusses the promise of channel stewardship. (Look for an HBS Working Knowledge interview with Rangan next month.)Senior managers of most of the companies View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
Source: Delpixart There’s a general consensus that Washington is “broken.” But the reason politics doesn’t seem to deliver for citizens anymore may not involve who’s in the White House, which party controls Congress, or even any inherent... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
infringers? In a recent paper, researchers looked at the issue of IPR from a wider perspective: Does the presence of stronger intellectual property rights increase international technology transfer in general? It's an important question because of the potential... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 08 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer
accomplishing the organization’s core mission, and develop a means of showing a gift’s impact. Also, understand that some people may want to get personally involved in your organization as a way of answering this question on their own... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
mega-organization CEO positions? Is there something about the need for high compensation and the "score keeping" that goes with it that distinguishes desirable CEO candidates from others? Can (or should) ways be found to involve... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
acquisition. Each startup was required to have at least one academic founder and one existing patent, which lowered the number of companies in the study to a total of 308, involving more than 500 scholars. Roche and Boudou measured how... View Details
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
evolving, requiring more expertise than many food companies can muster. The sensitive nature of testing and upgrades in the tests required also mean companies need to make an investment in sophisticated equipment, which involves high... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
One economic problem is search costs—the time, money, and effort spent on researching which dog to adopt. Another is information asymmetry—in which one person involved in an economic transaction has more information than the other. “The... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
implemented pretty quickly by command—acquisitions, divestitures, real estate purchases, layoffs. Long marches take time and the involvement of many people who must produce new elements and coordinate their actions before the change can... View Details