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- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
forgoing an inspection of the trees. And many trees in the retail forest, that is, many brick-and-mortar stores, are in ill health. Like trees, retail stores are long-lived, often with leases lasting ten or more years, and are unable to... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
For the last quarter century, many fought hard to overcome gender discrimination in the workplace by raising awareness, strengthening antidiscrimination policies, and encouraging more women to enter the corporate world. At first blush,... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
the U.S. in the last few years. About a year ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a story about how Fed rate cuts had forced many retirees in the U.S. to "pinch pennies" (WSJ, July 7, 2003). Many people who retired in the '80s and... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
seven-year high. The consequences were felt by financial markets everywhere. Q: Given how opaque China’s economy is, does anyone accurately know how deep or lasting this slowdown might be? A: The official numbers must indeed be taken with... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
Until the close of the last decade, health consumers received much of their knowledge and advice about prescription drugs from their physicians or other health care professionals. Today, pharmaceutical companies are spending several... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
centers can seriously affect an organization's bottom line and undermine its strategy. "My research reveals that what happens in the last 10 yards of retail supply chains is really important. Customers often experience stockouts not... View Details
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
high-tech start-ups be able to look for guidance regarding matters of governance? One place might be their counterparts that have successfully achieved post-adolescent industry leadership, companies like Microsoft. But what kind of model... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers' cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London office whose derivatives trading nearly... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
the students, enrolled last fall in one of three sessions of Harvard Business School's elective "Entrepreneurial Finance" course, found the possibilities intriguing. They were having fun. But then Sahlman, who was having as much... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Roundtable. These findings are consistent with the view that financial markets placed a positive value on shareholder access, as implemented in the SEC's 2010 Rule. The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
audacious goals among managers in some parts of the world to a lack of wealth, resources, and the risk aversion that accompanies these conditions. Sandeep, on the other hand, citing those who have risen from poverty to achieve... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
in America with 99% of its revenues deriving from its simple, text-only advertising services. It is on track to bring in roughly $9.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2006, which would place it fourth among American media companies in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Management faced several problems: criticism of multinational companies, anti-trust legislation, expropriations, and rising competition from international and local rivals. Focuses on developing a new global strategy for a company that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
then the vendor is placed financially at risk for the costs of patient medical care and is responsible for coordinating all aspects of care for those patients. The vendor is often also involved with other chronically ill patients of the... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
values or investment decisions. In other words, financing structure does not matter. Yet much of the empirical research in the field of corporate finance over the last twenty-five years has attempted to show that financing structures do,... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
legislation. And corporate influence will only increase in the wake of last year's "Citizens United" US Supreme Court case, which asserts that corporations have the right to fund campaigns that support or denounce political... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
Teams draft channel. All parties will also be dialled into a conference call that will last the duration of the draft. Picks will be announced over the call. If the Microsoft Teams channel is not working, teams can also use the conference... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector neoclassical growth model, while, at the disaggregate level, has implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the diffusion of 15 technologies in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of wrongful-discharge protections by U.S. state... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
interest rates is driven by four state variables: the real interest rate, temporary and permanent components of expected inflation, the "nominal-real covariance" of inflation, and the real interest rate with the real economy. The last of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne