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- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
technology so I learn something It's like playing pool You hit the green ball with the white ball, and the point is to place the white ball to get the next shot. So I take that job in order to learn skills for my next project." The... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
enduring legacy. An inability to secure credit emerged as a primary obstacle to financing construction projects. The CEMEX team discovered that to raise capital for building, poor Mexicans would organize tandas, lotteries in which a group of families contribute a... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
typically limit their pool to current CEOs of organizations that have been performing well and that share a similar status with the hiring company. In addition, many firms pass over talented executives because their directors still... View Details
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
countries. Construction, finance, and household credit, which is more prominent in wealthier countries. Firms that offer lending but aren’t subject to the same stringent rules as banks, including leasing or finance companies, insurers, and pension funds. Together, the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
the success of currencies in markets in which they invest? Or, alternatively, will the situation take care of itself as a new equilibrium reoccurs when those managing huge pools of money and gigantic corporations succumb to inefficiencies... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
forecasts of holding period returns strongly predict the cross section of future returns up to three years ahead. We document a highly significant predictive pooled regression slope for future quarterly returns of 0.86, whereas the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
platform, AngelList, for example, allows these private angel investors to pool their money and invest in larger equity stakes in companies than a single angel investor might be willing to take on by himself. Waiting For The Sec That will... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
beginning his business, people were pouring into the cities as urbanization accelerated. The family farm and even the family plot, was disappearing. For the first time, women were going into the paid workforce in large numbers, as they became part of factory labor and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
during 2012? Did they increase gains throughout the year but then very aggressively decrease them before year-end? Did they sell 80 percent or more of their capital gains during the year? They wound up with a pool of 2,281 tax-minded... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
treasure trove that could help businesses plan their alliance strategy. “If an alliance is so much better, why isn't everything done by alliance?” Firms often ask this question when considering a large project. It can be advantageous to partner with another company,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
successful NPD process. Each chapter outlines open questions and highlights needs for future research. Governance and Merger Accounting: Evidence from Stock Price Reactions to Purchase Versus Pooling Authors:Francisco de Asís... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
That’s actually good news because it’s harder to change people’s taste preferences than it is beliefs,” says Minor, joking that he’s been trying to change his daughter’s food tastes for years. Minor used a survey pool of 7,000... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
"Having the net made these people more willing to walk on the high wire," Olds says. "It didn't make them want to walk on the net." In the next stage of his research, Olds is researching how the social safety net influences the potential labor View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
newsletters, syndicated columns, and eventually a radio program. In 1919 he founded Babson College, today a highly respected institution, to provide him with a pool of workers for his forecasting business. Others, like Irving Fisher, were... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
V. Kasturi Rangan, Herman B. Leonard, and Susan McDonald Abstract The Future of Social Enterprise considers the confluence of forces that is shaping the field of social enterprise, changing the way that funders, practitioners, scholars, and organizations measure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
"What can you do for this company?" as opposed to "What's your deal-making experience?" The company found that minorities and women rose to the top in the candidate pool from these very small changes. So there are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
the financial sector." Implications For The Talent Pool It's not so easy for other industries to offer such competitive compensation packages for talented workers. "Scalability differs a lot across sectors," Vallée explains. "In finance,... View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
Harvard MBA Philip Stevens as a member of the project team. Together, they realized early on that the state pool of 345,000 uninsured Connecticut residents was hardly a homogenous group—within it were young people who didn't want... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
2002, according to UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS Recognizing The Threat What should responsible organizations do to counter the epidemic for their employees and their business? For a start, they must pool knowledge... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
to sitting CEOs with supposedly proven track records? The pool of these marquee names is limited. Such scarcity naturally drives up wages; the compensation of the ten highest paid CEOs has soared 4,300 percent during the past twenty... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace