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- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
guidance is needed or to make introductions to customers, prospective partners, or job candidates. Advisers may also mentor junior members of a team when you lack the funds or time to hire in an experienced leader. Advisers are usually... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
capitalists. He cofounded BlackRock in 1988 and has grown it into the world’s largest money manager with more than $6 trillion in assets under management. Yet many other fund managers, private equity... View Details
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
technology expertise they need. And thus the link to savings—to attract an investor, companies must put collateral into the project: money from savings. With access to technology, the company improves its productivity and contributes to... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
makers or B2B service businesses, which is a growing segment. “Decisions we make over the next several years will influence large parts of our financial services systems.” Only a relatively tiny number of US small businesses are the high-growth ones View Details
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
on mainframes. DEC moved up-market with a much lower cost structure and eventually attacked IBM. In the newspaper industry, we saw that firms can overcome this resource commitment problem by recognizing the challenge and framing the disruption as a threat to the core... View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
Gary Kaplan became CEO of the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. The hospital was facing significant challenges: it was losing money for the first time in its history, staff morale had plummeted, and area hospitals... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
saved customers money and their strong brands generated more traffic and sales but that most retailers, looking only at gross margins, missed this added value. Pepsi managers struggled to craft a strategy that would convince retailers to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
energy or saving the planet. If the federal government had said this will be our equivalent of putting a man on the moon, which energized the economy and the country under John F. Kennedy, we could be the leader in a range of new technologies that save View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
business to fund an aggressive expansion into the premium wine business. Cross-subsidization (beer to wine in this case) only makes sense if there are sizeable scope economies. Without them, cross-subsidization does not prove optimal,... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
Institute, which advises managers in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, says that as organizations increasingly ask customers to play a more active role in transactions, saving money shouldn't be the sole guiding force.... View Details
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
News about the Greek economy continues on the front page of every major newspaper, as the country continues its six-year struggle to reenergize its economy. On Friday, Eurozone finance ministers will decide whether to release emergency View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
short-term and long-term thinking, and craft emotionally engaging visions while staying focused on execution. In this article, we analyze how one organization, GE Money Bank in Switzerland, successfully created a new growth business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
turnaround of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in the 2002-2003 season? Was it Paul Pressler as head of Disney Sports, because he got investment funds from Disney CEO Michael Eisner and then hired Bryan Murray? Was it Bryan Murray as the general... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
It’s easy to understand why so many people embrace transportation network companies like Uber and the growing number of other ride-sourcing startups, which enable drivers to make money using their own vehicles. By allowing passengers to... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1016/j.jom.2014.09.008 March 2015 Management Science Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts By: Mollick, Ethan, and Ramana Nanda Abstract—In fields as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
investors put into their contracts, many others were completely alien to him. Which terms were important? Which ones should he focus on negotiating? He also knew that money was only part of what the venture capital investors brought to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
Publication:Financial Analysts Journal 67, no. 6 (November-December 2011) Abstract What is the critical factor for success in the U.S. mutual fund industry? Is it top-ranked investment performance, innovative products, or pervasive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
that when a firm actually disappeared from the directory from which we were drawing our data, the women were very likely to leave the industry (93 percent). When a firm disappeared from the industry, the men were more likely to relocate to another View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
investors, could provide this commitment mechanism. Common ownership of competitors within industries and long-time horizons in ownership of shares are key characteristics for investors that could act as stewards of the commons. Social pressure fueled by socially... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
decision to launch a hedge fund in India, and the first years of the venture. It also profiles Nirva Patel and describes how they met, married, and managed the transition to a new life in Mumbai, including the impact on her career and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace