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  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

complicated organizational know-how, such as the pharmaceutical and electronics industries.) "The FDI that I'm looking at also has gone into industries in which the local entrepreneurs in these economies started out with some... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

patients finds the reality is much more complicated when it comes to languishing hospital bills. Canceling overdue medical debt on average does little or nothing to improve credit access, existing bill payment rates, or even mental... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • 03 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

face as they operate in the complicated world of international finance. Desai notes that there is tremendous heterogeneity in firm responses to the opportunities and obstacles created by worldwide operations. In this e-mail interview,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 20 Dec 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts

Forest Reinhardt Since brewing is a marketing-driven business, finding ways to differentiate a beverage from its competition is crucial. Heineken’s chief marketing officer took a novel approach: take the complicated processes of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 17 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

supposed to be bad, and there was little debate about what companies or managers could do about it. For me this just sounded too simplistic. Moreover, the focus on national laws led to policy recommendations that were sometimes too View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services
  • 09 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm

map—including apps for donating food waste, sharing photos, sourcing wedding vendors, renting wedding dresses, and making creative wedding registries. Koning’s favorite out-of-the-box idea was an app to simplify divorce, which is notoriously View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 07 Feb 2005
  • What Do You Think?

If You Blink, Will You Miss?

studies helps an MBA candidate gain the capability to thin slice? Or is the typical business decision so much more complicated and less repetitive than, say, evaluating the authenticity of a rare object, that a manager never gains the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Oct 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?

discussion of other performance criteria, but the shareholder value standard remained dominant. Nevertheless, these companies managed to perform well against competitors. Now the Business Roundtable has announced a set of criteria that appears to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

be as a professional. So we should think long and hard about that developmental aspect, across disciplines and courses. As Jay noted, how do we teach and educate them to help them as professionals make sound decisions with great integrity? That's a View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 06 Sep 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?

nuanced. This reflected what DDB identified as “a huge new challenge for CEO’s” and a complicated one, according to Rob Jones. But only three respondents addressed the question of limits on the practice. More about that below. Ernie... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

as Japan and China, tend to have the hardest time communicating effectively. Also, all industries are not equal in their use of complicated speech. The financial industry has the highest level of linguistic complexity, followed by the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Jan 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center

increased benefits and efficiency for their customers. While institutions that spent more on information technology also demonstrated shorter times when customers were kept "on hold", the study also found a company may concern itself more with designing an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service; Financial Services
  • 25 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.

more likely to lobby than smaller ones. And lastly, they found that the firms that did lobby were consistent over time. For a company that lobbied in one year, for example, there was a 92 percent chance it had lobbied in the previous year. Applying a View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 09 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

complicated high-risk operations. In discussing the March earthquake/tsunami disaster in Japan (a "Black Swan" event, as risk managers call any surprise event that has a major impact and is rationalized by hindsight), Mikes sees a crucial... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking
  • 18 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

mergers are likely to put more pressure on vendors. "You'll see, ultimately, a shakeout in consolidation on the vendors' side," he said. "I think it will complicate life on the vendors' side," Barnett said of the... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein, which describes the complicity of the federal government in redlining policies that confined Black people in segregated neighborhoods with low opportunity. And for leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

minimize the impact of taxes on their investors’ returns. The assignment was complicated as KSW had different categories of investors (a sovereign wealth fund, pension funds, and high net worth individuals) each of which had different tax... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 4

examination of i) the consequences of violating the trust of market participants; ii) cultural and leadership flaws at Barclays; iii) the challenge of effectively competing in a market where systemic, and widely understood, corruption is taking place; iv) the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

objectives in the first year. Furthermore, a heated dispute between two faculty members in the center has complicated matters significantly. Rollins is flummoxed by these problems because he thought he had provided resources and clear... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

Surveys of Consumer Finances Authors:Daniel Bergstresser and John Beshears Abstract We find evidence that households selecting adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) during the recent decade were disproportionately those who were less suspicious or who may have had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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