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  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

million, a growth rate of negative 10.2%. The preceding years of rapid growth had been successful but challenging, and a thorough review of the firm's culture, systems, structure, and processes in late 2008 had resulted in a significant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2010
  • What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?

leadership changes ." Phil Clark comments that " you really cannot hide your identity. No brand, motto, or corporate mission statement written on a wall can cover the reality of what others see." Alexis Meza poses and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

analyzes the response of this wage to exogenous changes in the marginal revenue product of labor. The paper finds parameters for which the response of wages is modest relative to the response of employment, as appears to be the case in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

the early 1990s, but to reposition the company to lead the industry. The powerful lesson from the IBM story is that innovation is not a side business to running the real business. Innovation is the business. Breakthrough innovations that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

continuously learning from others and reinventing themselves. Let’s explore those in turn: Adaptability. Like many industries, the NFL has seen rapid growth and evolution over the past 25 years. Multiple rounds of rule View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 08 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

violations Heese, who researches corporate misconduct, decided to examine company violations in light of the rapid deterioration of the newspaper industry. The circulation of local newspapers in the United States has declined by roughly... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age

protect against a company’s having extensive control over its workforce without paying for employee benefits and social security taxes. Until recently, Work 2.0 worked. Now the Work 3.0 era has dawned, prompted by the rapid rise of... View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Transportation; Web Services
  • 16 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 16

Abstract This paper documents that ventures that are funded by two successful angel groups experience superior outcomes to rejected ventures: they have improved survival, exits, employment, patenting, web traffic, and financing. We use strong discontinuities in angel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

understand or who can't operationalize these links can press for better execution when they need a better strategy or change strategic direction when they should focus on sales basics. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

short as possible. The TARP money and the flexible terms on which it was legislated were critical to the rapid funding of administration decisions. The uniqueness of TARP, however, probably ensures that another intervention of this sort... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

By: Beckert, Sven Abstract—During the last third of the nineteenth century, a debate emerged in a number of European countries on the “American danger.” Responding to the rapid rise of the United States as the world’s most important... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

relationships. Contributions to understanding the decoupling of globalization processes and how organizations respond to institutional change are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-115.pdf When to Sign on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

themselves and new industries will grow. The number-one priority is to change the competition laws and the whole approach to regulating competition. Without competitive pressures, sick industries will never restructure. Until Japan stops... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

across and within those markets. Recent changes in the economics of unconventional natural gas extraction-"the shale revolution"-could potentially remake those markets, steering the world toward the "golden age" of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

their true purpose decide to found Careem, a Dubai-based ride-hailing service. Following its launch in July 2012, Careem experiences rapid growth of 30% per month in the UAE and other countries in the MENA region, surpassing the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

13% of employment over two years. In short, private equity buyouts catalyze the creative destruction process in the labor market, with only a modest net impact on employment. The creative destruction response mainly involves a more rapid... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

is not much historical data and experience for managers to draw upon when developing or applying metrics, and many economic benefits of e-commerce projects are seen as difficult to measure. Further, the pace of change in e-business and... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

described herein, we provide Eigenfactor rankings for 84,808 disambiguated authors of 240,804 papers in the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), a pre- and post-print archive devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

it is urgent. What does it mean to make capitalism a subject of historical inquiry? What is its potential across multiple disciplines, alongside different methodologies, and in a range of geographic and chronological settings? And how does a focus on capitalism View Details
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

GMAC Insurance, the wholly-owned auto insurance subsidiary of General Motors, formed through the merger of two smaller insurance firms, is at a strategic cross-roads. Progressive changed the competitive landscape with its superior pricing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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