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  • 10 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

bit both a value claimer and a value creator. But an executive can actively choose to be a value creator, someone who always looks for the "win-win," leaving enough room for both sides to benefit from a deal without feeling the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

and shareholders have the ability to put the heat on the company if it is not performing. These represent rather substantial changes in the Japanese organizational model. The leading companies—the Sonys—are rapidly moving in these... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

entrepreneurship in organizational sectors. Prior research suggests that firm foundings are driven by collective patterns of activity—that is, by patterns of prior foundings—including support from related markets as well as institutional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

has chosen to examine make them difficult to manage and generate conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. Indeed, he points out that managers often forgo large, risky projects—even those that are expected to add View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 25 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

named the CEO of the new group and has been tasked with coordinating the diverse activities of the three units to achieve JLL's broader goal of "customer excellence." One of Barge's first actions is to move the account... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52341 February 20, 2018 JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association Administrative Costs Associated with Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

by differences in the information-processing activities associated with each function and apply this insight to refine and extend existing theories of centralization. We also discuss the implications of our results for organizational... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

and have become active politically. Health facilities have also improved. Although this operation will eventually turn a profit for DaimlerChrysler, it could not have happened without the help of the German and Brazilian governments. This... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
  • 31 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 31

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811077-PDF-ENG Braddock Industries, Inc. William E. FruhanHarvard Business School Case 211-061 This case examines the drivers of economic value creation for shareholders and how these drivers are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

effect: the growth rate of an industry within a region may be declining in the level of economic activity of that industry. At the same time, positive spillovers across complementary economic activities can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

  Working PapersIntra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We use a new firm-level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

that advice seems to have limited usefulness. The chapter then reviews some common delineations of marketing and sales activities in companies and the implications. Finally, the chapter concludes with a sample of what B2B companies have... View Details
  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

plans are more likely to hire a consultant. Lastly, say-on-pay voting patterns suggest shareholders view positively the advice consultants provide but only when consultants do not provide other services. We also find suggestive evidence... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

United States. But because most American corporations are currently designed and mandated to fulfill dA [the drive to acquire] exclusively, both top management and shareholders might object to incurring any costs in Mexico beyond those... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 13, 2015

Identity—Team members must be active cultural learners and teachers to understand one another's identity and avoid misinterpreting behaviors. Technology—When choosing between videoconferencing, e-mail, and other modes of communication,... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

of the federal government. The same cycle of activities is evident throughout the history of commercialized technology. LR: Professor Tedlow, what about the gestation of Giants of Enterprise? Tedlow: These days people tend to talk about... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

negative impact on innovation at targeted firms: firms substantially reduce their innovative activity after settling with NPEs (or losing to them in court). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47648... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However, when revenue and cash flow decline,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

Abstract—Although documenting everyday activities may seem trivial, four studies reveal that creating records of the present generates unexpected benefits by allowing future rediscoveries. In Study 1, we use a "time capsule"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

to corrupt behavior.   Working Papers Carry Trade, Reserve Accumulation, and Exchange-Rate Regimes By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Carry-trade activity and foreign participation in local-currency-bond markets in emerging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne