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- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
the pass-through of both gas prices and nominal exchange rate fluctuations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54935 forthcoming Consumption, Markets & Culture Big Data By: Deighton, John A. Abstract—Big... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
It is fascinating to observe pundit after pundit come down strongly on the side of expensing stock options in the reported financial statements, as if that were the silver bullet for combating corporate malfeasance and resolving all our... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
important. We recommend that the IT governance group be made up of independent directors, as is the case with audit and compensation committees. Chairmanship is also critical. For firms in support, factory, or turnaround modes, the... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
remarks of that nature. Crossing Cultures Negotiating across cultures is cited in the article as being "akin to a dance in which one person does a waltz and another a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
lifetimes, this book looks at the past of green business to identify lessons for the future. It provides rich new evidence and insights on green business as it examines its variation between industries and nations over time. It shows the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
Harvard Business School Case 308-022 CEMEX grew through acquisitions from a Latin American to a global company under the leadership of a CEO who believed in the importance of a "one enterprise" culture and benchmarking against... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
that loosely coupled interfaces such as XML are quite powerful, so that reasonably strong efficiencies can be achieved with little commitment of platform-specific assets. Niche players can connect to both... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
successfully. Megibow's team investigated the reason for the failures, again using Web metrics data and server log files throughout the process. Apparently, the "Company" field under the customer's name was causing a problem. Some customers interpreted it... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
potential participants in the market; they have to overcome the congestion that thickness can bring, by making it possible to consider enough alternative transactions to arrive at good ones; and they need to make it safe and sufficiently simple to participate in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
in contexts where gender diversity is viewed as “normatively” accepted. By normative acceptance, they mean a widespread cultural belief that gender diversity is important. In other words, beliefs about... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
What happens to a country's economy when its government is politically unstable, such as has been the case historically in Mexico? Can business get done under a strong-arm dictatorship, or when a government is too weak to protect the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
including Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture (1998). A'lelia Bundles, director of talent development for ABC News, and author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madame C. J. Walker (2001) served View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
Summing Up The first impression I get from respondents to this month's column is that Steve Jobs can't be replaced as CEO of Apple by just one person. Rather the succession must include at least a head of design (according to Yadeed Lobo)... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
Nohria: The key moment really came when we clearly framed the question, "What basic mental drives do all humans have as members of the same species?" Once the question was sharply posed and carefully considered, drawing on our... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device Authors:Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier, and Dina Pomeranz Abstract We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Status: When and Why It Matters
industry. "I see it as a tale of competition for a distinguishable identity," Malter says. "You want to be mindful about how much you associate with central players in your industry if you are one or are trying to become... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
work). The case examines the beginnings of the band among four school friends and follows the development of the enterprise as a business and as a powerful social and cultural... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality inputs, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
You've held your own while negotiating dozens of successful deals. Even so, you want to take your game to the next level. What's the next step? There are plenty of guides that offer tips on negotiation strategies. As useful View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
e-mail interview, HBS Working Knowledge talked with team member Raj De Datta to hear more about the plan and next steps for Gyaana.Tishler: What inspired you to develop Gyaana? De Datta: The genesis of Gyaana came from two observations: the critical importance of... View Details