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- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
proportional to dividend yields. Portfolio strategies differ in the pace of capital gains realization. We use the federal tax codes from 1926 through 2007 to construct the after-tax returns that individual investors, corporations, and broker-dealers would have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
the same crucial questions as phase 2, but across a stratified sample of employees at several multinational companies. The researchers wanted the impressions of frontline workers as well as corporate executives. The goal was to develop a View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
potential revolutionary shifts in customer behavior. Look for new business models and technologies that can radically transform product, market, and industry economics and power. Benchmark inside and outside your industry, remembering to... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
retirement in February 2017. The case illustrates how even companies with stellar products can underperform and how benchmarking and financial analysis can help identify drivers of firm performance. The case describes how boards and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
for bureaucrats. A sample recommendation is that the WHO should “devise a regular, independent, transparent and objective assessment mechanism to evaluate country performance” against precise benchmarks defined in conjunction with member... View Details
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
tactic to encourage that diversity would be a revenue-sharing program that partitions content into different categories, with different benchmarks for success. "If your target audience is scientists, I'm not going to compare the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
unite partners' objectives for creating a flexible supply chain; benchmark performance against other retailers; and evaluate and manage new technologies. Raman and Fisher provide specific, detailed metrics and techniques that can be used... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
adherence to the informativeness principle. However, 40% of firms—those that choose index-based benchmarks—retain substantial systematic noise in their rTSR metrics, which they could have substantially corrected by using their self-chosen compensation-benchmarking... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
meet internal production benchmarks associated with salient calendar periods...,” according to the researchers. Salespeople who scramble to meet end-of-term quotas are familiar with the phenomenon. Read the paper: Internal Deadlines, Drug... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
removing client-sensitive information, we develop 'knowledge objects' by pulling key pieces of knowledge such as interview guides, work schedules, benchmark data, and market segmentation analyses out of documents and storing them in the... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Important are Big Ideas?
big ideas guide us to put our brain to work." And Don Martin added, "Management concepts provide a benchmark against which the desired direction within a company both externally and internally can be measured." Others... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
when the ECB's Governing Council reconvened on April 10, 2008. Given both the market turmoil and the evident inflationary pressure, members of the ECB's Governing Council would have to weigh the available data extremely carefully as they decided whether to raise,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
is true. When Di Tella benchmarked these results against a sample of residents from the Buenos Aires metropolitan area with generally higher income and education levels, their responses tallied closely to the beliefs of squatters who hold... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
functioned using a benchmark pricing mechanism, in which large steel mills in Japan (now in China) negotiate the benchmark price with the largest of the big three iron ore producers (Vale do Rio Doce). Yet... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
class system, or an alleged "anti-industrial" bias of its social elite, or the post-1945 flirtation with socialism and extensive state intervention. We maintain that comparisons which use the United States as a benchmark can be... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
the business to 'roughly' understand what a person was earning . Each role was assigned to a pay range. The greater percentage of that range was awarded dependent on performance, benchmarked through goals and objectives agreed earlier in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
haunting benchmark not only for Exxon-Mobil but for global corporations at large, which have since become keenly aware of their exposure to this type of episode. Shell was also deeply affected by the 1995 dispute with Greenpeace over... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
market, such as retail, health care, and construction—that is, jobs insulated from global competition. Those changes have broken the back of America’s middle class in two ways. First, both trends put pressure on wages. They combined to set new View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110087-PDF-ENG GUIDESlines: Benchmark Values for the GUIDES Framework Matthew C. Weinzierl, Jacob Kuipers, and Jonathan SchleferHarvard Business School Note 711-067 GUIDESlines provides... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
investing" by creating a new asset class for investors who care about social impact. Doing so will require working with competitors in the field in order to establish benchmarks and standards of measurement. How can Acumen build... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace