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  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

were used to identify which countries qualified for emerging markets investments. The case also raises the issue of the difference between "value" and "values" investing and the future... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing

early sales data updated their forecasts in an ad hoc manner when sales greatly exceeded or fell far short of original predictions. Several companies have retailing practices worth emulating, however.... View Details
Keywords: by Marshall L. Fisher, Ananth Raman & Anna Sheen McClelland; Retail
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

unmatched and unchecked culture of engineering ambition, of rote learning and educational experimentation, of sophisticated tastes along with basic concerns with food safety.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal

the price drops 70%, his options are worth a mere $211,000, less than 8% of the original stake. Disney's Michael Eisner is perhaps the best known CEO who has received megagrants. Every few years since 1984,... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Hall
  • 05 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

nine- to twelve-hour time difference makes it more difficult for the network to plan primetime coverage, since most events will take place overnight in the US. NBC's biggest challenge, however, may be the image of the host View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

industry players such as the major oil companies? Should he try raising money from the managers of the sovereign funds in countries such as Singapore, Kuwait, and China? How should the firm work with its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

sectors that are booming. However, as markets in different countries have increasingly moved in tandem or correlated, from 50 or 60 percent in the 1990s to more than 90 percent after the financial crisis of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 06 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 6, 2016

private property, and the self-made man—has its origins in an American slavery predicated on the abhorrent notion that human beings could be legally owned and compelled to work under force of violence.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia

Asia-based old economy and new economy firms. The development of supplier and client relationship management in Japanese companies. Business frontiers are being pushed back in countries throughout the... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes and Deborah Blagg; David Lane; Educational Services
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

Shi, Thales S. Teixeira, and Michel Wedel Abstract—Consumers have an increasingly wide variety of options available to entertain themselves. This poses a challenge for content aggregators who want to effectively promote their video... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

most interesting and original work. By contrast, some of their most successful labels—"distributive" and "integrative" bargaining—have generated at least three ongoing areas View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

decrease in herbal patent filing starting in the early 2000s. “We started asking ourselves, why does it have to be piracy?” Based on the surnames of patentees, the researchers found that a disproportionate number View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology
  • 02 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision

interoperability, support and upgrades—vary with the level of national economic development. We find that the initial cost of software is relatively more important in less wealthy View Details
Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Mark Schankerman; Technology
  • 11 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 11

evolution of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in host countries over time. We argue that a change in the policy environment in a host country presents an MNE with two sets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 16

that prosocial spending is associated with greater happiness around the world, in poor and rich countries alike. To test for causality, in Studies 2a and 2b, we used experimental methodology, demonstrating that recalling a past instance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

evolved in those markets. New business processes had to be created from scratch as a network originally intended for research and military defense had to deal with network interconnectivity, the needs of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence

By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper provides a business history perspective on debates about the Great Divergence, the rise of the income gap between the West and the Rest, and the more recent Great Convergence, which has seen a narrowing of that gap. The literature on the timing and... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Economics; History; Wealth and Poverty; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth
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  • November 2019
  • Case

Edita: Making Choices in Uncertain Times

By: Caroline M. Elkins, Juan Alcácer, Alpana Thapar and Youssef Abdel Aal
After 15 years of steady growth and expansion, Edita, a leading Egyptian snack producer, faced a series of challenges in the wake of the Arab Spring. In January 2011, the Egyptian Revolution sparked political and economic turmoil that reflected the waves of protest and... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Developing Countries and Economies; Economy; Business or Company Management; Price; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Distribution; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Expansion; Currency; Food and Beverage Industry; Egypt; Africa; Middle East
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Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

  • 01 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

In 2007 three-quarters of world FDI was located in developed countries. The residual was concentrated in a small number of emerging countries. Large countries with little... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace