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  • 05 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

find evidence that (1) bonuses enhance productivity across all segments, (2) overachievement commissions help sustain the high productivity of the best performers even after attaining quotas, and (3) quarterly bonuses help improve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008

handset business made up increasingly large shares of its operations. In early 2008, on the strength of sky-rocketing sales in those areas and by resurgent sales of Macintosh products, Apple's revenues and its stock price reached record levels. The case explores the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

lets them make mistakes at those times when they can still afford it. Growth, when it comes, is all the more sustainable as a result. GovWorks's failure is a textbook example of the perils of grandiosity.— Walter Kuemmerle Back in 1987,... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

target behavior is socially desirable, even when it is merely framed as such. Study 3 shows the paradox is driven by respondents’ concerns over response misinterpretation. A simple modification designed to reduce concerns over response... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

highlight the traits of cities (e.g., size, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these features (e.g., the localization of entrepreneurial finance).... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

interconnected world, leveraging Home Depot's brick-and-mortar success in the new environment, and continuing to build and sustain lasting emotional connections with customers. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

are crucial to understanding Mexico's current economic and political challenges. Why did the opening up of the economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not produced rule... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

their companies public, and to grant stock options to management. Once public, stock valuations depended on Wall Street's perceptions that the company would sustain strong growth. At first, newspaper chains met growth View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

service requests to their city government. Users who viewed photos of city workers responding to their service requests were more likely to continue using the app over the ensuing 13 months, demonstrating that operational transparency led to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2023
  • News

Step Change

myself. I'm cautious when investing because we need to build sustainable businesses and create a competitive track record for the country, if we're going to improve opportunities for the next generation." [music] View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

manufacturer. Soon after the company completes its revenue projections and bonus targets for the upcoming year, Linden shares some good news with his leadership team, the Global Executive Committee (GEC): an internal R&D effort to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

and informal support networks to help them stay grounded and lead integrated lives. The authors argue that achieving business results over a sustained period of time is the ultimate mark of authentic leadership. It may be possible to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online

brand equity. Highlights Ricardo Marques, Vice President of Marketing, Michelob ULTRA Tina Sharkey, Co-Founder and Former CEO, Brandless The Five Step Process of Branding Show Hide Details Concepts What Is a Brand? Branding as a Source of View Details
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

loss of cohesiveness and shared purpose. “We were one big family to start with,” he recalls, “but when we opened a plant in Los Angeles we began to talk about how to sustain the sense of pride and the culture that we had begun to... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • Web

Commencement 2018 Address | About

Springfest. The highlight of this event was a dunk tank. For those of you who have never seen a dunk tank, picture a large transparent tank of water with a person perched on a platform on the top. If you hit a target on the tank by... View Details
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

sustainability of nominal debt in developing (volatile) countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/05-053.pdf The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data Authors:Laura Alfaro and Faisal Z. Ahmed Abstract We use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

  PublicationsOne Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy Authors:Robert G. Eccles and Michael Krzus Publication:John Wiley and Sons, Inc., forthcoming An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book Abstract: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

all-time low. And the Tax Practice, the source of the problems, was the fastest growing such practice in the Big Four accounting firms at 18%. Purchase this supplement: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409075 Londolozi:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

the whole truth, about what resides deep in the hole, is targeted by conspirators who will kill to prove neither life nor truth is bulletproof. This technical crime thriller driven by a RICO conspiracy is Turley’s debut novel and taps... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

free entry of rating agencies, the provision of quality ratings is at least partially sustained by the reputational concerns of the rating agencies. The economically significant entry of a third agency into a market that was previously... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace