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29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

inventions as the top 1% of U.S. inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is significantly higher in cities and technologies where breakthrough inventions occur after 1984 relative to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Sep 2019
News

Hollywood Ending

lead two Fortune 500 companies, wound up back at the beginning of startup life is one that she and Katzenberg recite with the well-rehearsed routine of a married couple telling their engagement story for the umpteenth time. Back in 2017, Whitman was six and a half... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

20 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

structure may affect borrowing costs. Corporate legal structure refers to the legal fragmentation of a firm into multiple, separately incorporated entities. This fragmentation is bound to be a factor when lenders determine the pricing of debt and design of contract... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 28

relationships in which BATNAs are inherently interdependent. Third, BATNAs are often mistakenly described mainly as “last resorts” relevant only in case of impasse or “if the other side is more powerful.” Other uses of the term “BATNA”... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

understand which data is relevant. On average, our study found that only about 20 percent of data in any given industry is material from an investment standpoint. That has huge implications in terms of the signal-to-noise ratio. For... View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy

that companies adopt two different approaches. The first approach, which he terms "digital strategy on social platforms," uses social media to broadcast commercial messages and seek customer feedback. The second approach, "social strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

even brighter future. Others predict that "disruption," perhaps the most overworked term in business English today, will foster competition, make long-term strategic planning a questionable management activity, and bring new... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

24 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

get a good review and be promoted. I certainly did not want to have to explain at a cocktail party why I had been passed over for a promotion. Although I'm exaggerating this narrative a bit to make a point, I do think that many of us are trained to dream of success in... View Details

09 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

that can be applied to both corporate strategy and disaster planning. "I would advocate that risk managers should, and in some cases do, take responsibility for those kinds of questions," she says. "It's just very, very hard [to know] what to do about the types of... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking

04 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

that the system isn't set up to incentivize health care workers to do that. "The reason it's never done is that nobody gets paid to do it .there's no incentive to do anything," Cutler said. Services Not Emphasized In terms of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

12 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career

better plan their own career in terms of accepting new assignments and responsibilities so as to avoid overreliance on one company alone? A: In any climate, workers with portable skills are the least vulnerable when they switch firms.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Sports

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

"I think we are at a crossroads in terms of what exactly we do want to represent to our consumers," she said. The very variety that department stores offer, and the fact that they carry multiple brands that sometimes overlap... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail

21 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design

either recycling these components externally or reincorporating the material back into the Grundfos supply chain. Although the scale of the recycling program is still in its pilot phase and volume is low, the future potential is significant for Grundfos and its... View Details

17 Aug 2022
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

division to investigate and bring a lawsuit, if necessary,” says Jones. “In terms of compliance, our examinations division teams go out and review the financial books of registered individuals and entities, making sure they’re compliant... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

28 Oct 2021
News

Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

Archie Jones. Jeff Bussgang, Yasmin Cruz Ferrine, Glynn Lloyd, and Karen Mills On September 30, Bussgang and Mills presented this case to more than 80 HBS alumni in a virtual panel discussion that explored what the BNVC got right, what it exposed in View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

23 Apr 2018
News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

than when I was president, which is very gratifying.” When his term as president ended in the summer of 2015, Condo took a brief sabbatical before returning to INCAE teach the following year. Despite his love of teaching, he says, “I knew... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 1997
News

Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a principal and one of the founders of Long Term Capital Management, L.P., a financial technology and proprietary trading firm. He is the author of Continuous-Time Finance... View Details

01 Jan 2004
News

Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964

to children's furniture and toys. Upon leaving the Commission six years later, Franklin joined the Wharton faculty. However, her public service continued. She served four terms as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and... View Details

01 Jan 2006
News

William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958

both arenas.” Having agreed to a five-year term at Yale, Donaldson returned to Wall Street in 1980 to run his own international investment fund. But when the NYSE came calling in 1990, he couldn’t resist another opportunity to upset the... View Details

08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

be best performing in terms of annual profitability; membership was considered highly prestigious. We document that index-inclusion incentives led firms to increase return on equity (ROE) proportionally by 35% on average through higher... View Details