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- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
and by the effects of their private governance mechanisms. These organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
Editor's note: As traditional hierarchical organizations flatten, new ways of thinking about internal communications must be developed—news no longer flows just from top to bottom. In Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
his current stint at General Catalyst, a private equity fund. Filipowski, who founded software maker PLATINUM Technology and sold it to Computer Associates International in 1999 for approximately $4 billion, said one ingredient for his... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
quality metrics are unreliable and thus, recent legislation may result in unintended consequences. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54443 in press Business History Internment as a Business Challenge:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
valuations and growth options. A key to meeting growth potential is eliminating the gulf between big-picture strategy and day-to-day field execution. It's often the most difficult part of implementation because you're dealing with a... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
entrepreneurs. Designed for entrepreneurial and international business courses. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807075 Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Harvard Business School Case 407-028 Bill... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
algorithm. The nowcasting results are more accurate for denser, wealthier, and more educated ZIP codes. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53271 International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
timing of profit recognition. Performance measurement issues still need to be addressed directly. The standard setters' current projects on 'revenue recognition', 'insurance contracts', and 'measurement' therefore need broadening to consider the pervasive issue of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
Diana Barrett, Senior Lecturer in Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and John Ruggie, Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. HIV and AIDS devastate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
http://amr.aom.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/early/2015/02/10/amr.2015.0042.abstract February 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison By: Beshears,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
meetings with heads of major European companies in which questions about American leadership have been raised. What's new, at least in my experience, is that the questions aren't confined to political leadership; those are perennial favorites among our European... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
genome, Goldberg has focused his most recent efforts on explaining the impact of this revolutionary discovery on the agribusiness system. "All industries that deal with living things or organic compounds will have a common language... View Details
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
heart of good and wise leadership. In the following excerpt, Lawrence describes how various forms of globalization—classic trading, international sales, and transnational outsourcing—reveal examples of good, bad, and misguided leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
it expects to leverage its international operations to expand Beringer's presence in other nations. What troubles me most, though, is that these types of acquisitions appear to involve a great deal of... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
family business field is very international now, too. In most Western countries you now find at least a few people per country very engaged in family business research and doing some consulting. In terms of research, we're getting further... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Working PapersLocal R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash buffers and use these buffers more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
out of the brinkmanship of the past weeks, but not after payments to the International Monetary Fund have been missed, and European funding has ended. These tactics have created high and unnecessary uncertainty that has brought the Greek... View Details
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
a second publisher seeking to close the deal was "shadowing" Grand Central's every move and a preemptive offer of well over a million dollars would be required to secure the acquisition—an exceedingly high amount for a book by a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne