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- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
marketing strategies (such as, say, the labels placing more emphasis on less popular music genres over time), that could also put a downward pressure on music revenues. This makes the estimated drop in revenues all the more dramatic. Q:... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
Q: Why is it so effective? A: A wide range of factors explains its success. For one, strong brands and high production values matter. Scale also brings marketing advantages: It is relatively cost-efficient to advertise those tent-pole... View Details
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
As business goes global, pressure is increasing for adoption of a single set of accounting standards worldwide. In this e-mail interview, Harvard Business School professor Gregory S. Miller discusses this trend and India's unique position... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
mixed effectiveness, as people who deliver backhanded compliments erroneously believe that they will both convey high status and elicit liking (Studies 2a-2b), but recipients and third-party evaluators grant them neither (Studies 3a-3b);... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
problem when they first emerged but was ultimately overcome by changes in the innovation ecosystem. However, incumbents in the oil and power sector are different in two respects. First, they are producing a commodity and hence face little end-user View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
are less responsive to changes in investment opportunities, especially in industries in which stock prices are most sensitive to earnings news. These findings are consistent with the notion that short-termist pressures distort investment... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1960-2011, it was unusually high in the 1980s and negative in the 2000s, a period during which Treasury... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
pressure to perform. Second, internal controls within their companies are not that strong. And finally, their companies allow them to rationalize their behavior." Even after the scandal broke, the mid-level Siemens executive who oversaw... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
http://hbr.org/2010/10/unleashing-the-power-of-marketing/ar/1 Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy Authors:Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel Publication:In The Oxford... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
stabilize the financial system and the economy. The case explores the details of policies, and the decision making process that led to them, that Geithner and his team devised under immense time pressure to stabilize the system. The case... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
describe the characteristics of Roth contributions. Approximately one year after the Roth is introduced, 9% of 401(k) participants have positive Roth balances. Roth participation is more than twice as high among 401(k) participants who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
http://hbr.org/2013/10/fergusons-formula/ar/1 August 2013 Harvard Business Review Corporate Venturing By: Lerner, Josh Abstract—For decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
diversifications are relatively unusual by Western standards, especially into technologies and markets that have relatively high entry barriers and where there is no deep-rooted national technological or scientific foundation. As such Chi... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
'78), the former head of real estate for Fidelity Management & Research Company in Boston who now handles special projects for Fidelity. Real estate syndicators essentially sold tax losses to their well-heeled clients. Savings and loans, desperate for View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have offered a combination of low risk and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
unraveling of social relations, in turn, creates pressures for the state to step in as an economic intermediary. We need to pay more attention to domestic consumer market regulation as a source of national competitiveness. What is... View Details
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
misunderstanding and deceit. If both parties are already familiar to each other, however, face-to-face meetings may not be necessary. And if tensions are already high, then negotiating by phone may be the best choice, so as to reduce the possibility of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
pressures in that environment, can influence creativity by influencing people's passion for their work. Managers can influence the level of creativity in their organizations by establishing work environments that support passion for the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
Lagace: As you teach MBA students and Executive Education participants, are they describing new pressures that weren’t there before? Hill: Leadership is truly getting more demanding. I don’t think anyone ever succeeded by him- or herself... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
the discouraging trends she sees are political and religious attacks that stifle science and innovation; growing unease and pressure in the workplace; too few companies recognizing obligations to their communities as well as to their... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne