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- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
Summing Up The title of this wrap-up and the one that accompanied this month's original column basically just deletes "Wikileaks." The original title was my mistake. The intent was not to direct attention to Wikileaks in a manner that Dan Quizal rightly View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
relating the story, Miller said, "I believe in Christensen's fundamental premise that you find very few of those guys who are actually successful at disrupting the market, and [then disrupting] themselves." How To Not Miss The Boat Another of the criteria for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
latest e-commerce enterprise. And in a new MBA elective course he has developed, Large-Scale Investment, Esty examines how private firms structure, value, and finance large, first-of-a-kind (or greenfield) projects. "Although the course is really about project... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
Timberland's sponsorship of City Year events and City Year–organized projects for Timberland employees—that made clear their mutual interest in making a positive impact on society. By the third, or integrative, stage of a relationship (which Austin also View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
"loose" deal, in which the buyer engages in a mad dash from signing to closing in order to avoid getting "jumped." The British even have a term when someone else jumps your deal—it's called "gazumping." You can even buy gazumping insurance... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
financial reports have strong implications for firms' future returns: a portfolio that shorts "changers" and buys "non-changers" earns up to 188 basis points per month (over 22% per year) in abnormal returns in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
become something new, something they would not become without the intervention of a maker. This definition usually points to work that changes physical materials, iron ore and charcoal into steel, for instance. But the work and management... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
references to vomit. Luca and his fellow researchers were curious whether the article would impact the number of applications the school received after the news spread. After all, the same phenomenon is well documented in the business... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
and complementary online studies provide a clear answer: yes. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53860 forthcoming Management Science Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
accelerates recovery rates to such an extent that it creates a treadmill situation—we have to run very hard just to stay even with existing production levels." Information technology is also used to sift through geological data in the public domain. Fischer, who View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
conference a year later, and started to build relationships in the genealogical world. Three years later, two colleagues with technical know-how implemented his idea for online Polish-Jewish records with a rudimentary search system. The turning View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
to reductions in dividends relative to the reference point set by prior dividends. Managers with strong but unobservable cash earnings separate themselves by paying high dividends but retain enough earnings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2014
- What Do You Think?
Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?
some people will always need references such as brands. Others will be more adventurous, enjoying the search for new features. "At the core of human behaviour is human biology and that will not change because of information... View Details
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
process of learning from experience. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55991 forthcoming Organization & Environment Assessing the Impact of CEO Activism By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—CEO activism View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
employees on company time, with company material and/or tools. The origin of the term is unclear but probably refers to the fact that these artifacts are brought home. In the French aeronautics plant I studied, cutlery, toys, and... View Details
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
more tentative for small firms than for large firms. Regarding points of access to capital, community banks have long been crucial to small business lending. But community bank failures have been high and few new ones have started up.... View Details
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
becoming referred to as the "China price," or (3) a combination of both. As Nancy Sullivan said, "Business will not do it without government. Government will not do it without business." The discussion also turned to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
the point of the book was to explain where this extraordinary system came from and to explain it component by component so that readers could understand the financial system as the product of history, and as one of the key factors in... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50191 Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study By: Exley, Christine L., and Stephen J. Terry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
information and assumptions went into the process, and to know how susceptible the conclusion is to small changes." Referring to an example of Royal Dutch Shell's early scenario planning efforts, Hugh Quick volunteered that "I... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett