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- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
$2.4 billion and, given deregulation in the banking sector in China, CMB's President was presented with new challenges and opportunities concerning how such funds should be productively allocated to ensure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
detailed data on how their CEOs allocate their work time, which we define as their span of activity. Span of activity provides a direct measure of the CEO's management style, including the attention devoted to specific subordinates View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
grants ranging from $5,000 to $250,000. The case highlights the benefits and risks of traditional branding and social media branding, including a discussion of how the Pepsi Refresh View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
countries. The book draws on literatures and archives that have previously only been available in Spanish, while the concluding chapter makes use of Harvard Business School's new project known as “Creating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
of sugary drinks. Four well-powered, incentive-compatible experiments evaluate two possible ways in which firms might comply with such a policy: bundles (i.e., dividing the contents of oversized cups into two regulation-sized cups) View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
dataset of firms from the U.S. and seven European countries we study the impact of ICT on worker autonomy, plant manager autonomy, and span of control. Consistent with the theory, we find that better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
decisions, trying to understand how they make decisions now is pretty important. Q: Please describe how the research got started. A: Jim Poterba and I started the project at the end of my time in graduate... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
support) to build up their theories of change and their organizational capacities. That, I think, is a positive development. But it's coming at a time when need is even greater and View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
what sorts of activities do you oversee? Allen’s corporations provide myriad social services and operate a school, a resource center for battered women, senior-citizen complexes with 630 units, a for-profit... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
designed to enhance competitive effectiveness, we review the necessary analyses to ensure that resources are aligned with strategic initiatives. Most importantly, this module demonstrates how asset View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
costs and profit margins; initial sales also influence the venture's trajectory of organizational skills because firms develop capabilities and routines in interactions with customers. There is also an... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
the country’s largest sector and we have excellent resources and people, it remains too costly, too inaccessible, and too fragmented. Countless... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
contractual, reputational, and legal risks to overcome in making the project a success. Given these risks, Enterprise is unsure whether to rebuild in New Orleans at all and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
and the technology. Therefore, rather than allocate capital to competing projects (the zero-sum game), senior managers must nurture individual expertise View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
approaches can be reconciled through the Lean Strategy process, which ensures that startups innovate in a disciplined fashion and make the most of their limited resources by knowing "what not to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
transactions and markets we see. When my colleagues and I have helped design markets and allocation procedures, we have often found that distaste... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
knowledge of a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules. An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
of the digital gadgets, Etienne Douaza commented that "there is a constant temptation (on our part) to overreach to download another report we won't have the time to read to add a new project to the 15 we already try to get moving... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
company should not have entered in the first place. The example we use in the book is Nokia. Consultants from a leading strategy consulting firm had recommended that Nokia should absolutely not be in the cell phone business. (Nokia already had engineers View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
navigate expectations and assumptions surrounding the industry as a whole? Dessain: In an industry like that, everybody wants to know what you are going to do with all your money, so you better prepare for questions. Total's investor... View Details