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  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Leading In a New Era

challenge facing today's business leaders is threefold. While the old strategy-structure-systems doctrine was very effective at allocating capital, he explains, it has proven a constraint as companies try to manage information, knowledge,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 29 Apr 2025
  • News

Challenge Accepted

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience
  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

some responsibility for that. Most of them are neither studying nor teaching emerging best practices in asset valuation and risk management. They need to begin exploring the interior of leading-edge companies to provide detailed,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

Formation of Beliefs: Evidence from the Allocation of Land Titles to Squatters Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian F. Galiani, and Ernesto S. Schargrodsky Periodical:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We study the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

exhibit "The Four Spans" provides a summary.) The span of control. The first span defines the range of resources—not only people but also assets and infrastructure—for which a manager is given decision rights. These are also the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

nation has contributed importantly to the success. His challenge is to allocate resources among new areas to explore for petroleum and new sources of energy and to develop managers with the capability of leading those businesses in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

results have implications for existing theories of financial constraints for entrepreneurs, as well as research looking at the effect of banking competition on the efficient allocation of capital. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

stocks. Hold-to-maturity accounting of portfolio net asset value eliminates the majority of measured risk. A passive portfolio of small, low EBITDA multiple stocks with modest amounts of leverage and hold-to-maturity accounting of net... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

provides practical advice on creating successful decision-making governance to reduce errors and correctly assigning responsibilities and incentives; dealing thoughtfully and effectively with governance challenges; building the right policy portfolio, specifying... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

definite advance over the arbitrary overhead allocations done by traditional standard cost systems, many companies abandoned ABC or updated their model only infrequently, because of the high time and cost associated with re-estimating the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

successful technological innovation—but whose mindsets often clash. The authors dub these two types stewards and creators. An organization's stewards are usually managers; their goal is the careful allocation of the organization's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

PFA Pension was the biggest commercial pension provider in Denmark. At the end of 2015, the company had decided to boost its investments into the alternative asset class, an area where it was lagging behind its competitors. The aim was to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

traffic are sufficiently improved relative to the offerings of the ad auctions when separate. When there is an insufficient improvement, such mergers can harm advertisers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-055.pdf Investing in Improvement: Strategy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Sole Mates

government is trying to open them to well-controlled commercial logging but most of the companies entering Liberia’s forests today are unqualified and unscrupulous. Bribery drives the allocation process. The government is not yet capable... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government
  • 31 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

investment professionals. Asset Allocation by Institutional Investors after the Recent Financial Crisis Authors:Robert C. Pozen, Betsy Palmer, and Natalie Shapiro Publication:In Growing Old: Paying for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

History Review (forthcoming) Abstract This article uses the records of nineteenth-century Scottish banks in an attempt to understand investor behaviour in the early British capital market. It presents four main findings, some of which do not conform to the basic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Print View - Course Catalog

insurance. Insurance comprises about one third of the financial sector, and firms in this sector are playing an increasing role in the financial lives of individuals and in the allocation of credit to the corporate sector. Private equity... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

selected through exit early in their careers, made time allocation decisions such as delayed marriage, and tended to migrate to places that were conducive to innovation. Father's income was positively correlated with becoming an inventor,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

Authors:Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanzcuk Abstract We investigate, using firm-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants are a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

recouple consumer activities or rebalance the revenues generated from each activity.   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-417 What Is Global? Allocating Products and Activities Across Locations No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne