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- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
the long-term vision and short-term realities of the need for performance. Mike Flanagan asked, "Why have goals that are strived for in 10 years when the CEO and others will be gone?" And Kathryn Alexander asked why, in those... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
some of the costs and labor of low-orbit efforts so it could once again afford to dream big. Enter Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin. “We often think of business as motivated by quarterly earnings and short-term thinking,” Weinzierl says. “And... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank-are no more likely, on average, to get a negative quality rating than other projects. When aid is given to Security Council members with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
December 4, 2017 Harvard Business Review How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success By: Cespedes, Frank V., and David Mattson Abstract—It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
functional proximity over base proximity when locating preventive health services. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51094 forthcoming Production and Operations Management Multi-Echelon Inventory Management Under View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
long-term outlook on returns, whereas today most VC investors have a more short-term view of IRR. What are your thoughts on this? And if you feel this is true, is this cause for concern? A: Certainly, this would have been a fair critique... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
capacity for warehousing, packing, and—possibly—molding. But what if demand never came despite the expense? LEGO's director of strategic risk management, Hans Laessøe, pointed out the uncertainty of even short-term global demand... View Details
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
of managers and shareholders. Takeovers were favored as a means of enforcing the urgency of such alignment. At about this time, according to Khurana, deregulation came along that both made it possible and more tempting for agents to act in ways that served the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
the money spent. Cost includes not only the immediate, short-term costs of treatment but the long-term costs of ongoing care as well as the indirect cost of poor health. The goal should be to increase value, not reduce the View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
course, our reflex when confronted with fear of the future is often to run for cover, particularly if management can get away with downsizing while blaming the crisis. But of course, this only fulfils the short-term objectives of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
"hot money" moving quickly in and out of the Fund. This short-term trading is an attempt to take advantage of the difference between the closing times of the Tokyo and New York Stock Exchanges. The CFO of the fund manager... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
have to learn, some organizations may still lean toward this model. "Clearly there are some benefits to tighter control. If your goal is control and minimizing risk, that's going to perform well because people will stick to the script," Campbell says. "If you see each... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
acquisition as the biggest challenge. But lacking a CM strategy and able to respond to only short-term financial pressures, most organizations do an inadequate job of selection, retention, and growth. For many years, Mobil pursued a... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
are in the midst of what is often described as a gold rush. Is there any danger that firms will fly so high that they may spin out of control? A: The book is built around a number of the tensions that are inherent in all businesses — profit and growth versus control,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
rights and are less involved in terms of corporate governance, being particularly underrepresented on boards of directors. Having to carefully manage their own liquidity pushes mutual funds to require stronger redemption rights, suggesting contractual choices... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
their own risks like the risks of not acting, of failed initiatives, or of alienating shareholders focused on short-term results? Bower and Paine: Those are very different risks. The risk of not acting when the threat is a weakened dam is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
Every business leader faces difficult tradeoffs when working to make a company both profitable and purposeful. But leaders who articulate a company’s deep purpose can tap into that broader vision to help them navigate short-term decisions... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
Corporate Finance Attracting Long-Term Investors Through Integrated Thinking and Reporting: A Clinical Study of a Biopharmaceutical Company By: Knauer, Andrew, and George Serafeim Abstract—Faced with a large percentage of investors that chase View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
repairs and routine service. "The short-term benefit of failing a vehicle pales in comparison to the long-term benefit of retaining the customer's service and repair business," the paper explains. "Annual service and repair... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
represents steady cash flow over time. An investment in a new machine or more advertising, for example, would cause short-term cash flow to drop below the horizontal line. But if it’s a good decision, the cash flow will soon turn more... View Details