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- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
hundreds of thousands of maternal and newborn deaths, primarily in low-resource settings. Although they had faced many challenges in bringing together multiple organizations to develop and launch the device, Cohen and Gadde were convinced that BD’s ability to... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
effectively to a disruption. We hypothesize that the impact of improved operational efficiency depends on whether the disruption is due to factors that are internal versus external to the firm and its supply chain. Examining more than 500... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
controllers relied on the cultural authority of financial economics and the "full fair value" logic. Second, top management's interactive use of a particular control system sends a signal to external stakeholders about the firm's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Alibaba Group to diversify from an international business-to-business (B2B) exchange (Alibaba.com) into a B2C and C2C exchange (Taobao.com) for Chinese retailers and consumers. In China, Taobao had managed to displace the once dominant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating,” says Sawyer, an assistant professor in the Business, Government and the International Economy unit who previously held the... View Details
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
workers, the middle class, and the nonpolitical rich, jeopardizing the nation's security in the process. The authors contend that this usurpation is the source of America's economic decline and fading international power and provide an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
international media event ensues. How do viral videos spread and what can firms do about them? This case dissects an incident in which a disgruntled customer used YouTube and Twitter to spread a music video detailing United's mishandling... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
educational campus. The campus owner internalizes benefits, and could pay to build the system. I'm particularly struck by the use of PRT to increase the value of land that might otherwise be viewed as undesirable. Consider a parcel that's... View Details
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
projects, two studies are related to how we ought to tax people when they differ in multiple ways. One shows that taxes ought to be less progressive when preferences for leisure time vary widely in society, and I find that international... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
assessment of over 120 developed and emerging economies. Produced in collaboration with a distinguished group of international scholars and a global network of around 120 leading national research institutes and business organizations,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
balance internal resources. On the one hand, they need to focus some of their people on continually improving and growing the core business. On the other hand, they must free others to break all the rules in the name of growth and... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
energy, etc.). 2. Confidence and winning is a cyclical process that feeds off of itself, as does lack of confidence and losing. These cycles involve both internal and external confidence. Internally, a good mood and positive work... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
trucks with global positioning satellite (GPS) locators, allowing dispatchers to arrange deliveries within a twenty-minute window, versus the three hours CEMEX's competitors require. This system—which did not emerge from a central R&D lab but rather from CEMEX's... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
songs since its April 2003 debut. No wonder then that Steve Jobs was a recent BusinessWeek cover boy. But for longtime Apple watcher David Yoffie, the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Working Papers Putting Skin in the Game: Managerial Ownership and Bank Risk-Taking By: Bouwens, Jan, and Arnt Verriest Abstract—This paper examines the relation between managerial ownership and bank risk exposure for a large sample of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
turn to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for balance-of-payments support. Over the 1980s and early 1990s, the unpopular policy conditions associated with IMF loan programs made the Fund a lightning rod for criticism over Jamaica's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
Working PapersMandatory IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability Authors:Francois Brochet, Alan Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Abstract This study examines the effect of mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
internal audience—the fourteen thousand brokers who work for Merrill who are bound to feel threatened by the firm's decision to offer low-cost online trading. Crane, in fact, views advertising as a window into the future that reveals... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
resolve internal conflicts. In the Negotiations course, students not only analyze a number of case studies, but also participate in a series of negotiation exercises that give them hands-on practice with a variety of deal-making... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
high impact. Filtering A Leader There are three factors that social scientists agree minimize the impact of leaders: An external environment in which responses of competitors limits the leader's discretion to act. Internal organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard