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- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
company's long-term success. And Job's track record is hit or miss, he says. Take Apple's return to investors. Yoffie says that if you invested a dollar in Apple in 1992, it would be worth $.79 today. The S&P 500 over that same View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
Thus, founder Jack Ma and his management team, who own a little over 9 percent of the company, can still retain control of its destiny. (Meanwhile, although Hong Kong stock market authorities are officially... View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
issues is brief and non-technical. Provides actual deferred tax information from AOL's Form 10-K, where net operating loss carry forwards result in a large deferred tax asset and the accounting for software... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
and face the dire condition of the US government's finances. In fact, it's time to press snooze. First, the fiscal stress on the United States is not imminent. Borrowing costs... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
How They Can Do it Better (29,119) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6665.html Published: April 25, 2011 A CEO's schedule is especially important to a firm's financial success, which raises a few questions: What do they do all day? Can they be more efficient View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
and clinician-reported outcomes. These need to be used for internal improvement in health care delivery organizations, as well as for public reporting, so that patients can make informed choices about their health care. We need to do a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
independent directors. The decision to opt out reflects the relative costs and benefits of doing so. Cross-listed firms opt out more when coming from countries with weak corporate governance rules, but if... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
To make a long story short, we hit a wall. We had to stop, go back, and start over. It was tough work, the second time around. Four sets of behaviors commonly stop the launch of needed change. The first is... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
promotional spending (including that directed toward physicians) as a percentage of pharmaceutical sales remains relatively constant over time and thus the growth of DTCA represents a shift in the mix of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
environment not by doing nothing, but by accelerating past organizational routines based on established assumptions.— Donald N. Sull The benefits of this knowledge sharing, however, are likely to decline over time as the industry settles... View Details
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
broad or focused managers, to leverage, to the timing of investment, and finally, to the compensation paid to both external managers and internal staff. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
disastrous mistakes that can splinter a founding team, strip founders of control, and leave founders without a financial payoff for their hard work and innovative ideas. He highlights the need at each step... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
likely to see a lot more deaths: a 10 percentage point increase in poverty is associated with 10 additional conflict-related deaths. Once we control for poverty, measures of caste and linguistic diversity... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
salience of one's own ethical standards at the time of temptation (that is, when one faces the decision to cheat) reduces unethical behavior, a conclusion reached through a combination of lab and field... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
four times over the last hundred years they've been in existence." But he said they still offer customers a variety that many value. "It's hard to find a store today in the country where you can go in View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a small monetary margin on each pack sold, a large margin,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
above and below, by virtue of having been there for a long time and by virtue of people thinking that given that this is your baby—that what you're interested in is in the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
by managers facing intertemporal decisions. We assess the association between different types of performance measures and the time horizon of business unit managers who have profit responsibility. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
their products directly to buyers) or as a reseller (purchasing products from suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a decision between whether control rights over a non-contractible... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
time that the immigrant percentage of entrepreneurship is growing over time, from 17 percent in 1995 to 28 percent in 2008 for a stable cohort of states present during the full period. The LEHD is being extended to 2012, View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding