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- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
their perspectives on the bill and its key provisions. Their opinions range from calling it a major step forward to concern that it will actually raise the risk to the system. Robert Steven Kaplan, Professor Of Management Practice:... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
Mirage. Le Cirque and MGM's business models complement one another: MGM makes important capital investments in theaters tailored to CdS's shows that are located in the middle of MGM casinos; CdS acts as a magnet for traffic for an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
makes huge investments to acquire, develop, and market concepts with strong hit potential, and then banks on the sales of those titles to make up for the middling performance of their other content. Today's leading film studios,... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
several innovative actions to make its anti-viral products available to over 100 low- and middle-income countries. Having reached nearly 680,000 patients by the middle of 2009, the company's senior managers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
and Middle Eastern states, including Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, Romania, Saudi Arabia and Syria. The issue is that this literature has focused heavily on broad macro-economic trends and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's “best-run” companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable among Japan's large and liquid firms. We find that managers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
of 2010, Yum China's revenues surpassed U.S. revenues for the first time, and many analysts expected that Yum's China business—driven by a rapidly growing middle class—would be twice as large as its U.S. business within five years. But... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
collection of innovative research and management insights that build upon the foundations of the first book but takes the study of brand relationships outside of traditional realms by applying new theoretical frameworks and considering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
economic growth has stagnated, and poverty is on the rise. Most people in Latin America, the Middle East, and Central Asia are poorer today than they were ten years ago, and most Africans were better off forty years ago. The average per... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
reward their own drives." Inspired by the writings and insights of Charles Darwin, specifically his 1871 masterwork The Descent of Man, Lawrence's new book, Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership, offers managers an... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
process does not have these features, deal price should receive no weight. This approach would represent a middle ground between the competing approaches advanced by 29 law, economics, and finance professors in the DFC Global appraisal,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Harvard Business Review Planned Opportunism: Using Weak Signals to Spur Innovations By: Govindarajan, Vijay Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51052 forthcoming Strategic View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
Crashes, explains that after a bubble bursts—during what he calls the “revulsion” phase—most investors lose their appetite for risk taking. Our collective conservatism in the immediate wake of the dot-com crash might be seen as what View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Business School Case 207-091 Jerzy Peters, Managing Director of Patron Capital Partners, must decide the best investment option on the development of the Odra Polish theater chain and the associated real estate. Capital Field was a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
violence, willingness to settle and make peace are remarkably flexible and dependent upon these cues. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55574 November 2018 Review of Middle East Studies Syrian Refugees in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
of Maine by Colgate—to ascertain what is distinctive about the merger process and to analyze the elements critical to success. We develop suggestions about how other companies considering similar arrangements might best manage the process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
this?" He noted three different models for developing these standards: an industry leader setting the standard, to their own benefit but for the good of the industry, as well; a more collaborative, but very slow, industry association model; and a View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Abstract—With a young, urbanizing population, abundant natural resources, and a growing middle class, Africa seems to have all the ingredients necessary for huge growth. Nevertheless, a number of multinationals have recently left the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
have written this book when you were writing Market-Driven Health Care (1996) or Consumer-Driven Health Care (2004)? A: I think at the time of Market-Driven Health Care, people were still delirious about the prospects of managed care.... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
middle class—outweigh the challenges of operating there. And indeed, as embodied by Nigeria's status as a net food importer despite having 80 million hectares of potential agricultural land, the challenges are considerable. Animal feed is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne