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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller
Supermarkets in Australia, and the media company ITV. Unsuccessful: The Conservative Party, where he served as an MP from 1996 to 2005. “While I was there, we became very good at losing elections, and politics in the UK is binary. Either... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
M. Ketels Publication:In Productive Partnerships: The Role of Employment Relations in Growing the UK Economy, edited by Tony Pilch, pp. 12-23. London: The Smith Institute, 2006. Publishers link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
"make the numbers work." Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/busse-place-b-marisa-s-dilemma/an/214104-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-496 Babcock International Plc. In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
objective function from government in that sense." Ferri points out that when the economy was doing well, for example, shareholders had a healthy appetite for the sort of risk-taking that contributed to the subprime mortgage crisis. Modeled after the View Details
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Historical Research - India
Periodicals 19th Century UK Periodicals Online, 1800-1900 Part 2 of this collection entitled "Empire" includes journals related to the expansion of the British empire published in Britain, India, Canada, South and East Africa,... View Details
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Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change
cleantech). Includes ESG ratings. Industry/Market Research IBISWorld - covers a wide range of industries in the US, China, the UK and Australia. BCC - in-depth market research reports on many sectors within health... View Details
- 19 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Finding Success in the Middle of the Market
dealers and consumers alike. The other products in the line—and their relative prices—hinge on the midfield entry. “Midfield is a moving target.” A company controls midfield by fielding a complete product line that includes backs and forwards. In its supermarkets,... View Details
- 05 Jul 2022
- Op-Ed
Hear Me Out: Introverts Can Be Loud and You Might Like Microsoft Teams
we care about. Care about the sound of our own voice (E or I) and we don’t listen. Care about the other person too, and things shift radically.” Alan ArnettLondon, UK Re: "Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
data-id=_/5WV9qIO851dKEzcCnWEy][/div] We found that roughly 33 percent of US shoppers and 20 percent of those in the UK had not purchased from online retailers before the pandemic. In March, that figure decreased slightly to 32 percent... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
focus from advising to investing in start-ups just as the UK and Europe embarked on major economic reforms. In addition, the U.S. venture capital industry got a huge boost when a 1978 clarification in the Employee Retirement Income... View Details
- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
product managers spent on average only three percent of their time in contact with end consumers. Terry Leahy, CEO of Tesco, the UK supermarket chain, spends two days a week in stores interacting with employees and customers. But how far... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
there’s £20,000 in the pot to match public donations. Hopefully they’ll raise the full amount, for a total of £40,000.” There’s another bonus: a UK tax rebate called Gift Aid, which adds another 25 percent to the public donations. In this... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
http://hbr.org/product/winning-in-emerging-markets-a-road-map-for-strateg/an/13216-HBK-ENG?N=4294958505%204294934481 The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard Publication:Chap. 2 in Platforms, Markets and Innovation,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18
https://hbr.org/product/pfizer-s-centers-for-therapeutic-innovation-cti/615024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 215-027 Barclays Bank, 2008 In the midst of the financial crisis, Barclays (the world's fourth largest bank by assets) is forced by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
mandate that private sector employers auto-enroll their employees in a pension plan. In the span of six years, the number of people with pensions in the UK jumped by 10 million. But just opening the accounts isn’t enough to ensure they... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
with these markers of poor market performance? Q: And what’s your response to that? Dafny: It is heavily linked to the limited and diminishing degree of competition in so many health care sectors. Sadun: And we actually see that in the data. Researchers in the View Details
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
was acquired about ten years ago by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). RBS has been fiercely criticized and is perhaps the worst UK example of bad bank behavior surfaced by the current crisis. RBS advertising these days is minimal; advertising... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
Sweden, Canada, and the U.S. obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to Italy, Brazil, and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e., government funded but with substantial independence like View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
gone from hundreds of thousands of state-owned businesses down to around 20,000. Meanwhile, developed countries including Australia, Canada, France, Japan, and the UK have each gone from hundreds to dozens of companies that are either... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
The case concerns bidding and negotiations strategies as well as deal structuring issues. In particular, the cross border nature of the investment, a UK firm investing in Norway, leads to a number of financing issues related to raising... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel