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- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
and pointed to the future. These had various names, such as Babson's Composite Plot and the Harvard Economic Service's Index of General Business Conditions. Forecasters also devoted time to sales and marketing. Successful forecasting... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
is the impact of foreign bank entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican banking system provides a quasi-experiment to address this question because in 1997 the Mexican government radically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
for prosperity and effective government for the following century. In addition to granting him his rightful place among British Prime Ministers on both domestic and foreign policy grounds, Hutchinson advances how a proper regard for... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
Management Journal Discordant vs. Harmonious Selves: The Effects of Identity Conflict and Enhancement on Sales Performance in Employee-Customer Interactions By: Ramarajan, Lakshmi, Nancy Rothbard, and Steffanie Wilk Abstract—Across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
eligible for a discount on the purchase price conditional on their achieving the sales targets set by the franchisor. We show that car dealers (franchisees) who exclusively deal in cars of the brand offered by the franchisor receive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
product offerings, start treating the third party suppliers like partners, and invest in local distribution centers.” Other concerns included those associated with changing customer shopping habits, the use of new technologies, and View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
playbook, but it has cultivated an additional source of revenue: the sale of conservation easements. Lyme Timber buys pieces of land targeted by conservation groups such as the Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land, which pay... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
Hood needed to correct missteps made on Ballmer’s watch. First up: the $9.5 billion Nokia deal. Less than a year after closing, it was foundering and had missed Hood’s initial forecast for sales and savings. “Once the forecast failed to... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk. We find that the ratings are related to enforcement and monitoring, country and industry corruption risk, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
critical, although changing role in determining constraints and opportunities in the communications sector." Turning to the issue of privatization, Emmons explains that governments in both developed and developing countries have... View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
ecologically friendly aquaculture and agriculture, and the sale of carbon offsets, among others. Profit to investors comes from realizing all of the value contained in the conserved land. Adams has already opened a conservation and... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
placing too much emphasis on patent protection? Are government regulations protecting intellectual property applied far too broadly these days? Should they be limited to certain industries, products, or processes where they can be judged... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
association, fair pay practices) and whether these codes have affected their business outcomes (e.g., staff turnover and absenteeism, product defect rates, sales growth). In this paper, we review the existing evaluations of other private... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
global cash flows: to achieve resource independence from other state actors. In the context of state-owned entities, the power-use hypothesis of standard resource dependence theory can be used to analyze the dependence of SOEs on other state actors, such as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
a tool . The problem is not the tool, but the user if the company were better run, you wouldn't need to bribe people to stay (but) there are times when the retention bonus is appropriate, such as when a company is for sale ." Rajat... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
industry also grew as the means out of poverty for many women who worked as sales consultants and in salons. Winning beauty contests became the equivalent to winning a lottery. In this respect, the impact of the beauty industry was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
help people save a bundle, look better, feel better, and have enhanced confidence. Boom Country? The New Wave of Indian Enterprise by Alan Rosling (MBA 1988) (Hachette India) A fresh wave of enterprise and start-ups, rapid advancements in technology, View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
people provided important lessons for the battle against HIV/AIDS, says Gilmartin. Not only is Merck pursuing a safe and effective vaccine to prevent and treat HIV infection, he points out, but the company also announced last year that it would not profit in the... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
record health worker attendance and patient adherence to protocol, and they automatically prompt follow-up treatment. We combine data from surveys, independent field visits, and government registers to identify impacts on TB-control... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
factors that impact the business landscape (geopolitical forces, demographic shifts, technological breakthroughs, labor policies, social mores, and government intervention). In studying the context in which business leadership emerged, we... View Details