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- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
Several factors are generating a tailwind for the recovery, although it varies from market to market. In large measure it has to do with improvement in the economy as a whole, household formation (that is, children moving out of their... View Details
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
how many hectares each Akhara required. (The Juna Akhara, the biggest, has four separate quadrants.) They had to figure out how to provide on the order of 30 MVa of power to 22,000 temporary poles (provided by a bank of diesel generators... View Details
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
understudied subject of business research. After all, the economic activity generated by these deals is huge—North American M&A deals in 2011 were estimated at $450 billion. But another reason, says Harvard Business School's Matthew... View Details
- 03 Nov 2011
- What Do You Think?
The Ultimate Question in Management
thing:" trust. (There's precious little trust in government, Wall Street, and business in general these days.) I found a strong correlation between trust, loyalty, engagement, and "ownership" among employees in a sample of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
bias blinds them to local issues. And companies often fail to adequately check the actions of their local managers. Standardized Products, Universal Values? Global Product Standardization? Although there is a general perception that... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
opportunities in inner city businesses, said surveys show a general increase in computer ownership and online access among inner city families. Even so, she pointed out, computer use in the inner city remains significantly lower than in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
mentor the next generation of women. My colleagues' and my work on women's management styles has revealed significant differences between generations. I hope we'll have some practitioners talking about this as well. We're also going to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
69, no. 4 (December 2010) Abstract How can people and organisations best respond to emergency events that are significantly beyond the boundaries of what they had generally anticipated, expected, prepared for—or even imagined? What forms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
the "institutional appropriateness" of their controls. Importantly, the fate of the competing control systems was contingent, not on how well their technologies addressed the problem of EurInsurance's capital adequacy, but rather on the controllers' capacity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
companies. Namely, do they yield more product returns, which are notoriously higher online than in the physical world? What about product returns? Product returns are too common in online channels. They are often attributed to the inability to inspect items before... View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
generating sponsorship revenue? KCON LA and KCON Tokyo have made a profit for multiple years in a row, and KCON NY was in the black for the first time in 2016, but other KCONs lost money. What can they do to further grow the Bibigo brand... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
between two broad, general varieties of state capitalism: one through majority control of publicly traded companies (e.g., state-controlled SOEs) and a hybrid form that relies on minority investments in companies by development banks,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
the Order Management Cycle Sales Marketing CustomerService Engineering Purchasing Finance Operations Logistics Top Mgmt Participation plans to buy 1. Order Planning coordinates gets sales pitch 2. Order Generation some negotiates 3. Cost... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
game, Ford announced in 1999 that it would cooperate with General Motors and Daimler Chrysler to create a huge new electronic procurement exchange to leverage electronic transfer of data and reduce procurement costs. Its suppliers were... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
Japanese government to make the necessary policy changes because these attitudes are so deeply ingrained, particularly in 60- to 70-year-old officials who are in senior posts. Change will be more rapid when the next generation of leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
weighting of nonfinancial metrics in compensation contracts as a mechanism for generating improvements in nonfinancial dimensions of performance. I Read Playboy for the Articles: Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
successful agreement. Following Robert Putnam's (1988) two-level games schema, I characterize such "behind the table," or "Level II," barriers more broadly, offer several innovative examples of how each side can help the other overcome them, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
entrepreneurs from other candidates. To address that problem, Butler compared the psychological testing results of over 4,000 successful entrepreneurs and of approximately 1,800 business leaders who described themselves as general... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
than fifty years, self-disclosure has been widely studied across a variety of interpersonal contexts, including friendships, romances, and therapeutic relations. The way to enhance trust between people is for all parties to self-disclose, which increases a View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding