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- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
government's efforts to drive and sustain growth. In How Countries Compete, Richard Vietor sheds light on ways in which governments can best set direction and provide a healthy climate for a nation's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
pervasive in the China business context characterized by heavy reliance on personal relationships or guanxi, it went against the founding principles of CDG-professionalism and service quality. Yang had to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
transformation has drained considerable risk out of a once notoriously unstable market. A New Industry Emerges Not so long ago, real estate development looked and acted like modern-day "cowboy... View Details
- 25 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal
think either we could hire more people to generate more ideas, or we could pursue auction deals. It takes time, though, to develop experience in this space, and I don't think we could hire enough people to... View Details
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
self-employed person declined 19 percent in real terms between 2007 and 2010, according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances. And a survey by the National... View Details
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’
matter how hard you and your people work, no matter how wonderful your culture, no matter how good your products, or how noble your motives, if you don't get strategy right, everything else you do is at risk. My goal in this book is to... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
In 2013 Ning Tang, who in 2006 founded CreditEase as a broker of P2P loans to unbanked individuals and small businesses in China, confronts the challenges of rapid growth and expansion in a changing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity
based on their performance under stressful conditions. They must be bound by a sound governance system and constraints that require them to acknowledge their responsibilities to their organizations. View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
for growth become a primary objective, pulling these firms away from their foundational north star: CEO and C-suite management consulting. In pursuing additional opportunities, consulting firms have widely diversified the industry breadth... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
explored in this paper. Restructuring Within an Academic Health Center to Support Quality and Safety: The Development of the Center for Quality and Safety at the Massachusetts... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
and across 50th Street into Saks asking for these lipsticks, one after another. This convinced us," he continued, "that there was a demand for the Lauder product." Saks placed an initial order for $800 worth of cosmetics.... View Details
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
school!" "I'm still in school, and I'm not bringing in a paycheck yet!" "We have two kids! You should wait until they are out of the house!" "Even if the market is crying out for you to solve a particular... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
differed from the conditions she had encountered at Palm Inc., which she had joined in 1992 (following a decade in the computer and software industries), just after the company was founded to develop... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
task. And you can't divorce it from that, which is why it's not a purely HR function or shouldn't be a once-a-year kind of evaluation; it really needs to be an ongoing evaluation. SS: Who in a corporation these days should be responsible... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
where the village head was a woman, were much likely to say the police acted efficiently and the case was solved," says Iyer. In another survey that looked at people's perceptions of the police, respondents said they believed that... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
pressed pleats? Krasnow worked at General Foods for two years, developing fast-food products for the home kitchen. Then he joined the Jewel Companies, a food retailer, first bagging groceries at a Star Market in Cambridge, View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
one of “empower(ing) every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.” He was quoted as saying, “My mission is to put empathy at the center of everything I pursue—from the products we... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
emerged. Some (relatively rich) emerging countries now exploit the economic advantage of relatively low labor costs to move quickly into the manufacture of high-tech products, such as wireless phones, microprocessors, personal computers,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
What happens when a person owns property? Aside from the well-established financial benefits of equity and potential access to credit, there is the equally strong pull of the American Dream View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna