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  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

http://hbr.org/product/Valuing-Yahoo--in-2013/an/214048-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-053 Saudi Arabia: Finding Stability after the Arab Spring In 2014, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia was juggling several balls. At home, there... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2010
  • Article

Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations

By: Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado
We explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine.... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Microfinance; Growth and Development Strategy; Identity; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Policy; Recruitment; Business Model
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  • 16 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

planning, caution, and preparedness; and order, focused on respect, structure, and shared norms. These styles fit into an "integrated culture framework" according to the degree to which they reflect independence or interdependence (people interactions) and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

publicly traded firms in the United States under scrutiny. This case examines perceived excessive pay and severance packages at several firms implicated in the credit crisis of 2008, the executive compensation provisions in the Emergency Economic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

variable bonus. "Stable hours and stable salaries make a world of difference to lower-wage retail employees," she says. "In the United States, even full-time employees often do not know when they will work and for how long in a given week. But offering... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage
  • 24 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit

respond by prior experience.” “One can achieve economic growth by targeting these firms.” Given the economic stability of Turkey at the time of the experiment, banks and small businesses in the US and elsewhere should take note of the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
  • 14 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

in India. During the 1990s, she recalled, "we had coalition governments, no stability in politics, high inflation and a high interest rate environment." In 2001, she added, "the entire banking system collapsed." Yet these were exactly the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto
  • May 1999 (Revised July 2000)
  • Teaching Note

Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care TN

By: Jody H. Gittell and Sandra J. Sucher
Teaching Note for (9-898-172). A rewritten version of an earlier teaching note. View Details
Keywords: Health; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Health Testing and Trials; Valuation; Service Operations; Balance and Stability; Production; Demand and Consumers; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology; Health Industry
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  • July 1998 (Revised October 1999)
  • Case

IPODERAC

By: James E. Austin, Wendy Bermudez and Gustavo Escobar
This 32-year-old nonprofit organization has dedicated itself to the care and social development of abandoned street children in Mexico. Examines the organization's efforts to achieve financial sustainability, particularly through earned income activities on its farm.... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Management; Organizations; Problems and Challenges; Nonprofit Organizations; Balance and Stability; Service Industry; Mexico
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  • 27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27

Boston mechanism. Both results have important implications for the efficiency and the stability of the mechanisms. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-093.pdf Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007

a social loss function. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13622 New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability Authors:Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton, and Zvi Bodie... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

company. The new moral contract also asks a lot from employees, they write. "It requires that [employees] have the courage and the confidence to abandon the stability of lifetime employment and embrace the invigorating force of continuous... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • March 2005
  • Article

Sovereign Debt As a Contingent Claim: A Quantitative Approach

By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
We construct a dynamic equilibrium model with contingent service and adverse selection to quantitatively study sovereign debt. In the model, benefits of defaulting are tempered by higher future interest rates. For a wide set of parameters, the only equilibrium is one... View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Interest Rates; Balance and Stability; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods; Management Style; Segmentation; Debt Securities; Banking Industry
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  • 17 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

leadership of Deng Xiaoping, there was an energy that you could feel—the possibility of stability and maybe a different face toward the outside world. But there was also the reality that it was a country that had only begun to emerge from... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

Crisis: Tragedy or Opportunity? Dante Roscini, Jonathan Schlefer, and Konstantinos DimitriouHarvard Business School Case 711-088 After its 2009-2010 fiscal crisis shook the euro, could the Greek government stabilize debt, avoid default,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume or number of projects completed by a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice, however, such View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jun 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

differences this way: "If one has to generalize, it is fair to say that Americans pursue risk and Europeans seek stability ... (leading) to fewer opportunities with more limited financial rewards, but possibly more balance for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2003
  • Working Paper

Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pankaj Ghemawat
This paper analyzes a dynamic mixed duopoly in which a profit-maximizing competitor interacts with a competitor that prices at zero (or marginal cost), with the cumulation of output affecting their relative positions over time. The modeling effort is motivated by... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Competition; Open Source Distribution; Balance and Stability; Applications and Software; Network Effects; Duopoly and Oligopoly
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  • February 2009
  • Article

Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt

By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's willingness-to-pay incentive problems, reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Motivation and Incentives; Decisions; Emerging Markets; Balance and Stability; Earnings Management; Policy; Interest Rates; International Finance; Cost
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  • 24 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

boosting equity capital requirements at banks. Those tactics might help countries avoid the devastating toll that the 2008 financial crisis exacted and the massive bailouts required to stabilize the system. Doomed to repeat history? If... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

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