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- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
require a grand organizational makeover or buy-in from the CEO. All it takes is collaboration between you and your team-working together and making small, doable changes. What started as an experiment with a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
is perfor-mance-based and guarantees the reimbursement of our expenditures and cost of capital as long as these are prudent and efficient. The... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
competency and its ability to move up the value chain that will allow it to share the positive gains. If labor tries the old tactic of strikes, management will just outsource the staff from somewhere else... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
background in behavioral economics can help managers have an appreciation of where the standard economic analysis suffices, and where they should think more about how to structure the environment in which... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
[Positioned as] tax cuts, we don't know what the costs are going to be. You don't see them, and you often don't bear them for a long time. I worry that we're going to slip into a tax-cutting mode rather than... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
modular, closed architecture. Over time, the more open firm can drive the ROIC of competitors below their cost of capital, causing them to shrink and possibly exit the market. The strategy was used by Sun... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
role (himself MBA '75, PhD '82, he is D'Arbeloff MBA Class of 1955 professor of business administration and cochair of the school's entrepreneurship and service management... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
community activists? When and how does such reporting affect how managers make decisions in ways that increase or decrease shareholder value? What are the main welfare effects of corporate accountability... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
waste. This increase reflects a change in the behavior of households, which keep unaltered the production of total waste but sort it to a larger extent. In addition, we show that several factors that may discourage local administrators from adopting PAYT—illegal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
supply chain system. When commodity prices became more volatile in 2007 and 2008, executives at Domino's changed the way they worked with suppliers and franchisees to manage... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Lara Hodgson
It seemed patently inefficient; the small businesses with a high cost of capital essentially funding the big players with all the cash. While many entrepreneurs might have been sunk by the conundrum, Hodgson, an aerospace engineer by... View Details
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
line—if this had been our own retirement fund or our kids' college fund—I don't know if we would have necessarily had the conviction to stick with it," says Singhal. (She and Higgins now work together at AQR Capital Management, an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
Ponzetto Abstract—Cities generate negative, as well as positive, externalities; addressing those externalities requires both infrastructure and institutions. Providing clean water and removing refuse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
the pricing of digital songs, a study on the reach and effectiveness of online video advertisements for video games and movies, and a project on how online retailers of... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
as a pull instrument. Given that shrinking release times can also have important disadvantages for movie marketers (e.g., it necessitates additional costs of movie prints, limits possibilities to adjust failing marketing strategies, View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50422 forthcoming Ethical Innovation in Business and the Economy Managerial Responsibility and the Purpose of Business: Doing One's Job Well By: Hsieh, Nien-hê... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
Chappell Russ Wilcox (MBA ’95) was two years out of HBS, married to classmate Gina Wilcox and working as a strategy consultant following a stint as a product manager at a Boston-area technology firm. But he... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
The assumption that industries will become more concentrated as they become more global, that the global economy is a winner-take-all economy, has become common wisdom. But, according to Pankaj Ghemawat and Fariborz Ghadar, empirical... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
long-run competitive advantage.— Forest L. Reinhardt One method managers try is to differentiate their products, environmentally speaking, and transfer the additional costs to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
electronics, the managers of five enterprises—Telefunken, RCA, Philips, Matsushita, and Sony—determined the direction in which the industry's paths of learning evolved from its beginnings in the 1920s until... View Details